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Brian Hampton
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| Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject: Pearl Sudden Diming, Bulb Failure at 500 Hours |
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Hey,
I was just reading another site about a group of people with the new Sony Pearl that had sudden and drastic dimming at 500 hours.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=10218040&&#post10218040
Anyway,.. Seems common enough a problem for me to lose any inerest in thinking that if my CRT FP became un-practical I would seek out some ruby-esqe new thing.
According to the thread this is common to LCOS including the latest hot shot RS1.
A quote from the thread,... "If I turn on the projector in the morning it stays on all day even if I'm not watching it." <-A bulb saving notion.
-Brian
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draganm
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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People who buy Pearl's don't really strike me as the brightest bulbs in the pack anyway, that thread proves it. You would have to be pretty dim to buy a Sony product even more stupid to leave it on all day. 
the RS1's output definitely drops and plateau's in the first 100 hours, whether it will "drastically dim" at 500 is something I haven't heard of? I douby many people have even put 500 on their new machines yet. We'll have to wait and see.
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Joust
Joined: 05 May 2006
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Location: Almonte, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Marquee 8501LC
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject: Re: Pearl Sudden Diming, Bulb Failure at 500 Hours |
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| Brian Hampton wrote: | Hey,
I was just reading another site about a group of people with the new Sony Pearl that had sudden and drastic dimming at 500 hours.
-Brian |
The Dimming occurred just BEFORE they bought the thing.... 
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ecrabb
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Joined: 13 Mar 2006
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Location: Utah
TV/Projector: JVC RS40, Epson 5010
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| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject: Re: Pearl Sudden Diming, Bulb Failure at 500 Hours |
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| Joust wrote: | | The Dimming occurred just BEFORE they bought the thing.... |
Ouch! But, I like it!
SC
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AnalogRocks
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Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Sony 1252Q, AMPRO 4000G
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:50 am Post subject: |
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You're as quick as a lance Barry.
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Joust
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:52 am Post subject: |
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Groan.....
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AnalogRocks
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:04 am Post subject: |
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Surley you joust...er Jest.
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Joust
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:39 am Post subject: |
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Yes......and yes....
knock off the puns or I'll drive over to Toronto and shove my lance ........... 
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AnalogRocks
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Sorry. I wouldn't want you to have to run though Toronto on my account.
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Joust
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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argh
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