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[greg_mitch]

brand/Model: NEC XG1100
Price: $550 projector (+$750 for green and red tube) = $1300
Tube condition: Toast Green and Red
Chassis condition: Pretty good
Working at time of purchase?: Yes
date purchased: March 2006
Replaced projector: Sony 1252

[rwallmow]

brand/Model: Barco Graphics 801s
Price: $200
Tube condition: 9 (no visible wear)
Chassis condition: 4k hours, clean, looks new.
Working at time of purchase?: Yes
date purchased: 7/2010
Replaced projector: Infocus X1, which replaced Plus UP-800, which replaced Sharp XG-E850u (no more lamps for me).

Long time lurker on this forum wanting a CRT, this one finally came up for sale locally and I jumped at it.

[huggy]

brand/Model: Runco 1101 (Barco 1209s)
Price: $3000
Tube condition: 9 (no visible wear) on red and Blue 7 on green
Chassis condition: 4k hours, clean,
Working at time of purchase?: Yes
date purchased: August 2008
Replaced projector: Epson tw700 LCD pj


Dave

[AnalogRocks]

Details:


brand/Model: Sony 1252
Price: $600 CDN
Tube condition: 6-7
Chassis condition: Ash tray - former bar projector
Working at time of purchase?: yes with 12 000+ hours on it!
date purchased: April 2006
Replaced projector: 5" black and white CRT with projection lens to make 60" picture on ceiling
............................. 19" CRT monitor with fresnel lens making a 6 -7 foot picture for playing Quake 3.

[AnalogRocks]

Details:


brand/Model: Sony 1252
Price: $600 CDN
Tube condition: 6-7
Chassis condition: Ash tray - former bar projector
Working at time of purchase?: yes with 12 000+ hours on it!
date purchased: April 2006
Replaced projector: 5" black and white CRT with projection lens to make 60" picture on ceiling
............................. 19" CRT monitor with fresnel lens making a 6 -7 foot picture for playing Quake 3.

[ecrabb]

brand/Model: Sony G70
Price: ~$750 from eBay seller
Tube condition: Minty
Chassis condition: Excellent
Working at time of purchase?: No. Had minor issues, but almost no hours.
date purchased: Spring 2007
Replaced projector: Sony 1271

SC

[David_Web]

brand/Model: Marquee 7500 (+stig) = 8500
Price: 50$ for Marquee 500$ for tubes + stig 100$ for HD145
Tube condition: 8 some wear but large enough for me not to care
Chassis condition: Fine, 10khours, maybe needs some paint. 03p =)
Working at time of purchase?: tubes where toast but otherwise fine.
date purchased: summer 07
Replaced projector: Marquee 8000 that never got used due to bad tubes

[jantje112]

Marquee 9500 500 euro
Tubes RGB 908 (green was broken) 2000 hours on it. Replaced it with a Brand new LUG given by a good friend
Chassis in good shape
Worked perfectly at purchase except green.
Bought it in spring of 2007
Replaced a bunch of projectors. (2 d50, 3 barco 600, a barco 1600, sony 1031 and some more like the sony 1292, barco 508 and the one I had most fun off, the barco 700)

Upgraded it with Frankenyokes (1292) and bought a spare 8111 for the 03p vim. A year back I ran into a 8500 ultra and used this chassis to rebuild my 9500 to an ultra.

Best upgrade was the ISF calibration!

[Ben851]

NEC XG 1350 - $400 CDN
Tubes were 6's - $600 to replace with brand new tubes = $1000
Chassis is in great shape
Worked perfectly when bought in 2008

[Andy_34]

Hi Guys,

Details:


brand/Model: Sony 1271QM
Price: 250€ (+ 120€ for an intern HDMI Card)
Tube condition: 9
Chassis condition: 8 - but its in a hushbox, so who cares?
Working at time of purchase?: yes
date purchased: 2006
Replaced projector: Sony VPH 722

Greets
Andy

[karmat63]

brand/Model: VDC/Marquee 9500 Ultra (2004)
Price: Euro 750, shipping included (+ about 500 Euro for new (Nashou's) bellows, red C element and Moome int. V2)
Tube condition: 7,7,8
Chassis condition: very clean (about 9000 hours with CRT on)
Working at time of purchase?: Yes
date purchased: december 2009
Replaced projector: Marquee 8500, sold for Euro 900

[jarseneau]

brand/Model: Sony G90
Price: $999 projector (+$1100 for Sim. grade green)
Tube condition: Text burn on green, Red 8, Blue 7
Chassis condition: Near new
Working at time of purchase?: Yes
Service remote included? Yes
date purchased: March 2010
Replaced projector: NEC 1352

[joatmon]

brand/Model: Runco DTV-940 (Barco 708 with color filtered lenses)
Price: Free
Tube condition: I think they are 9/9/9 - 1,350hrs on the chassis with zero visible tube wear
Chassis condition: good, some scuffs, typical broken cover hinge (but a cheap fix thanks to Curt!)
Working at time of purchase?: yes
date purchased: fall 2009
Replaced projector: none

[till]

brand/Model: Barco Data 801s
Price: 260 Euro
Tube condition: R:9, G:8.5, B: 7.5
Chassis condition: working, new fans and some new caps
Working at time of purchase?: yes
date purchased: feb 2010
Replaced projector: barco data 600 with broken convergence board

[virusc]

barco 600 $2000 1999 mint tubes
barco 500 $200 2003 mint tubes
barco bd801s $400 2005 2k hours
barco 1100 $200 mint tubes (broke) 2006
NEC xg852 (runco 933) 6k hours wear on green $250 3/2010
Runco 943 (barco 708) mint tubes $400 today (I think it was high but I can't live without a projector while I fix the others)

[atomiccow]

Sony G70 VR
Tube condition Green 9. 10 for blue and red
Working perfectly when I bought it but I knew glycol had been spilled in the chassis which
resulted in about $300 in repairs.
Chassis like new
Price paid $800
Purchased Aug 2009 (roughly)

[RaWsHaRk]

barco data 801s 5 euros(+ shipping 95 euros),
tubes 9-9-9 6000 hours on chassis.
works perfect, have put 200 hours on it since bought it christmast 2009.

replaced a sony D50 that i still have in storage, bought that one for 200 euros a year before.

also have a marquee 7500, a work in progress,bought it a year ago and have spent 800 euros on it but still doesnt work like should.

oh, and bought a non-working graphics 801s (shot tubes) for 50 euros couple months ago for spare parts, also a nonworking data 800 for 46 euros this summer.

first crt bought in 2004,. analogue piece of sh*t, price 1150 euros..

[JohninCt.]

G70
320 hours
Tubes mint
Paid $335 at an auction.
Still haven't used it, (other then tested it).

Currently using a G70 that I paid $1700 for a few years ago, paid $1700 for it with about 1600 hours on it. It now has about 3000 hours, and still looks good.
It replaced a $2000 G70 that the red tube went bad in, had about 2700 hours on it. I changed the tube but it is just another spare set now.
Previous to that had a 1272 Sony with about 2500 hours on it. It is in a shipping crate now, but I never get around to selling it.

[dvh99]

score so far:
only the projectors in use.

1 sony 10*
2 barco 10*
3 marquee 9* or 10 if you count the blend as 2.
4 nec 5*
5 ampro ehm.. 1, scott has an ampro too but didnt post.

[blange]

brand/Model: Electrohome ECP 4500 with ACON
Price:6€ + 60€ shipment
Tube condition: 10/10/10
Chassis condition: after a long cleaning session, it looks like new
Working at time of purchase?: yes
date purchased: 05/2010

Details: removed fungus on all 3 tubes, currently looking for a new crt assembly because of a broken astig-magnets...

[Elaine Benes]

Brand/Model: Barco Graphics 808s(former SEOS projector with high resolution MEC tubes and scheimpfluge adjustment)
Price: $200.CAN
Tube Condition: 9/8/8
Chassis Condition: Great, case is flat black as is standard for SEOS projectors, you can hardly see it on the ceiling...
Working at purchase: Yes( some small functionality oddities left over from SEOS conversion, cleared up with different Convergence board $40. from ebay)
Date Purchased: Summer 2008(I think...could have been 2007...originally purchased by me and resold 2002-ish...original purchase price was $166.US)
Previous owner added colored glycol, and with late model Barco color controls, it looks superb...