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UncleWill · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 3:07 am Post subject: How often do you use your set?

Was curious. Just a ballpark. I know Marquee gets used every single day.

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

Lately I've averaged maybe a movie a week. Sometimes, even less than that.

I do not burn those expensive, limited lifespan CRTs on wastes of time like regular daytime television. Movies only.

km987654 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 9:31 am Post subject:

I don't use mine for TV viewing so on average about twice a week.

**kal** · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 1:57 pm Post subject:

JVC RS-56 digital (DILA/LCOS) here.

Ours is on almost every day, usually at least every evening, sometimes during the day too on weekends or after school. We play video games, watch TV, movies, you name it. About 1000-1200 hours/year.

Costs us about 10 cents/hr to run in bulb cost. On our second bulb now. Ran the first one for the 2900 hours until the "recommend you change the bulb warning" comes on. Still had enough brightness but for safety reasons they recommend changing it as a bulb blowing can damage stuff inside, so the 2900 hours is probably fairly conservative. Most of that 2900 was in lower power mode too. Took 2 minutes to swap out. Quite literally like changing a light bulb. Was impressed that there was little to no noticeable colour shifts when going from the old bulb to the new, just slightly brighter when the new one was swapped out.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 2:11 pm Post subject:

2 hours a day typically. With contrast and brightness at under 50, I figure on 20K hours life left on the tubes.

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12088 Location: Fort Collins, CO

These days I hardly use mine at all. I now have a housemate living in my basement, and I have to go through his living room to get to the theater.

Zolzar · Joined: 26 Jun 2009 Posts: 252

I'd say I use my PG10 about 6 hours a week. I only have around 2K hours on it. If this dies I have an E8500 tucked away.

AFryia · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 3:33 pm Post subject:

~4 hr./week now.

If it was DVD/Blu-ray it was in the theater.

With on demand and streaming I find my self down there less often.

nettwerkjohn · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 6:53 pm Post subject:

jvc x900 here. while im on land, i spend several days a week just movie marathoning. plus a movie or a couple of tv episodes a day. so probably averaging 4 hours a day...

larryp · Joined: 24 Jan 2012 Posts: 252 Location: eden prairie mn

Several hours a day, Tv & movies, games,dvd,vhs tapes etc

modelaratrod · Joined: 26 Jul 2011 Posts: 168 Location: Denver, CO.

The BG808 gets a lot of use every day in my daughters room, the 8500LC gets a few hours every day in my room and the 9518 ultra gets 2-3 movies just about every Friday & Saturday night.

gregstv · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 628 Location: Australia

Movies only @ two or a week. I play with the test projector in the shed four or five nights a week.

jeffslife · Joined: 17 Apr 2010 Posts: 4190 Location: ohio usa

Every single night. Mostly Bd's but as TV gets better and better I am watching more and more, The audio on TV has improved so much the last few years. I watch news and less than good TV upstairs. The rest is watched on the G90.

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

I hardly ever watch TV at all. Movies, sure, you bet. But ordinary cable TV? No, I generally can't stand it, I barely watch it
at all, why would I want to waste tube life on something I'm not even watching?

All I ever wanted to know about the current state of TV I learned when I DVR'ed a movie I wanted to see, and when I realized
i was spending a lot of time fast forwarding through the commercials, I stopped and started counting and taking notes regarding the commercial breaks.

I found that there were five minutes of commercials (an average of FIFTEEN commercials at a time) for every ten minutes of movie run time.

A THIRD of the time spent on the very thing I want to see least of all.

Is it any wonder that I rarely watch TV? Because I can not STAND commercials. Particularly these days, where now it seems that the purpose of TV is not to entertain me with a show, but to try to get me to sit through as many stupid commercials as possible, hoping one or more of them will persuade me to spend money on crap I don't need.

Back in the day, the standard for a half hour TV show was 22 minutes run time and 8 minutes of commercials. Even that was too much. Now they're down to 18 and 12. Less content and more garbage? No wonder I almost never turn the TV on.

larryp · Joined: 24 Jan 2012 Posts: 252 Location: eden prairie mn

That's where Netflix etc are great, no commercials in movies or tv shows

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

Even then, there's very little TV that I consider worth watching even if there are no commercials to zap.

Life is far too short to waste hours of it every day watching TV. There are too many things for me to learn about, and do, and experience for myself rather than watch other people doing them on TV.

I want to participate in life, not be a spectator.

Any time I turn my Marquee on, it's a special event, time set aside to watch a (hopefully) good movie. Like driving a hot sports car, the fun goes out of it if you use it as your daily driver. Reserve it for weekend fun and it IS fun on the weekend.

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

I have mine down and will probably put it back up in a month or two. Usually a couple of hours or more a week.

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

I don't watch much TV. It can't hold my attention. It's CRAP, for the most part. Why waste tube hours on something that I
don't care to watch?

That'd make no sense at all to me.

I use my projector in the way that allows me to enjoy it the way I enjoy it most. Which is watching MOVIES.

Left to my own devices, I would not turn the cable TV on more than once a week. I just don't care about regular TV and
even without ads to zap, there's still very little that's worth watching.

I have a thousand channels to choose from and most of the time there's nothing worth watching on. It's a sea of garbage, a signal
to noise ratio so low it's pathetic.

If it's not worth turning the TV on, I'm sure not going to waste tube life displaying something I'm not even going to watch.

If there were an abundance of good shows on to watch, that's a different story. But there isn't.

Spanky Ham · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5643 Location: Comedy Central

cmjohnson · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 5180 Location: Buried under G90s

Honestly there is not a single TV show running today that interests me enough that I schedule time to watch it. Not a single one.
Even if I DVR a show or movie, I'll watch it "whenever", usually that's late at night if I can't sleep that night.