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I have owned a kloss model one in the 1980s! Going to get an Advent 1000 soon to watch movies as purely NTSC Analog! I have a higher end LCD Proxima 9310 PJ, the raster lines are still obvious! The lightbulbs are a rip off($400.to $550 a pop!!) These newer PJs are a scam!! My Kloss ran for 8 years before needing service and regretted not still having it. Yeah, that advent IS ancient, it's going to replace that Proxima, I'm not going to buy a shei$ty lightbulb for the third time. I'm liquidating the proxima and will have the advent serviced when it needs it, much cheaper than forking out huge bucks for overpriced lightbulbs.

Here's another unexpected event happening with those small plastic box PJs, don't expect service and or support years from now that is available for CRT PJs. I STILL have a source for Advent parts and expertise. A former Advent owner had Henry Kloss himself help set up and keep maintance an Advent 1000 going 5-10 years ago since the videobeam was his creation. Mr Kloss thought it was a kick someone was still a 1000. Mr. Kloss accepted calls freely at his most recent company whenever the owner of this unit needed technical advice. Kloss's dedication showed he was a true innovator for starting the big screen industry. The digital boxes some people are saying ---the older lightbulbs are already being phased out.



linky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRT_projector#Disadvantages



The owner of advent mentioned lived in the boston area of course, also gave reference of another Advent 1000 used publicly til ten years agorunning thousands of hours. Let's see if any of these hot shot digital units last that long, HOW many 400 to $500 lightbulbs would that take?????

[Tim in Phoenix]

Hello

The Advent VideoBeam is severely fossilized; no one has parts.

I have priorly been a dealer and field technician for both of these platforms way back when, you might be farther ahead with another Novabeam, or an Electrohome ECP 3100 or 3500; the ECP would enable use of HDTV or an HTPC for not much $$$$. And have enough output to do a seven foot flat screen in a dark room.


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[crt projectors]

Thanks Tim for the tip, I plan on eventually setting up a second CRT eventually and will look for the ECP unit mentioned for a higher end setup. I'm going to refurbish and save two Advent 1000's just to have, no one else is saving these. A good usable picture, not great, but no one else is saving the PJs that started it all. Just thinking of it, I'm going to use Advent in bedroom since will be used ocassionally and in none to subdued lighting.



can ANYONE tell me how to measure lumens, what is differnce in ANSI lumens or other??

[deronmoped]

All right, who wrote that in Wikipedia. Looks like some CRT junkie.

Deron.

[Mark_A_W]

[Mad Mr H]

[Tom.W]

Would that make it a Zarco ?

[Zebu Fellenz]

Last time I checked Kal denied writing anything in wikipedia...

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