LED Projectors?

Hi mate.

Those projectors are great as a little portable office projector, but not for a home theatre.

They are nowhere near bright enough to power even the smaller HT screens, nor do they stack up in the areas of picture that are really important to HT viewing like contrast.

Go DLP . Go the BenQ W10000 !

Rodda,

Can you recommend a souce of cheap replacement projector bulbs. ie. mine costs around $800 to replace. Considering it is just a bulb, just think there must be a source of cheap replacement (made in China perhaps?).

It is an LG projector, don't have model details on me.

Hi 3xB.

Unfortunately an alternate cheap source for projector lamps may not actually be available. Most of these projectors use a lamp that is reasonably unique to that model, whether the projector was designed around (among other things of course) the lamp or the lamp was developed for the projector itself.

We have trade price lists on many different lamps for projectors from the likes of BenQ, Panasonic, Optoma, NEC, Mitsubishi, Epson and Hitachi (therefore dozens and dozens of different specific lamps), but I'm sorry to say we don't deal with LG.

BenQ.......Puuuleezee!!

3xB. Sorry mate, but anyone who honestly thinks LG make better projectors than BenQ obviously does not really know very much about these products at all.

Check the various reviews at sites like ProjectorReviews.com, ProjectorCentral.com, AVRev.com and UltimateAVMag.com and anyone who can read will discover that BenQ make projectors that are highly regarded throughout the AV world.

Hi Timbo.

BenQ projectors are nothing short of excellent. If you get a chance to see one in the right environment it will blow your socks off.

Even their support (1 issue with 1 unit - 1 issue resolved - 1 customer very happy with the experience).

As far as electronics (amps, DVD players, etc.) go, I don't have any experience with the BenQ range. That said, I probably wouldn't recommend them, but that's probably mostly due to the fact that our taste is a little above the likes of that - we LOVE Marantz stuff.

LG - OK if you wanna save a (little) bit of money. In my opinion, if you are currently looking for a Plasma or LCD TV - look no further than Samsung. Their panels are awesome (I personally couldn't bring myself to get a plasma, until I saw the range put out by Samsung 12 months ago. That completely changed my thoughts on them).

Sharp globes...... ask me again in a couple of days, when I'm in a better position to look into it (sorry mate, been on an install all day and I'm feeling rather stuffed at the moment..... We have access to Sharp projectors - can't remember at the mo' if we get price lists for their globes.

don't remember seeing the Samsung specifically but the only plasma I've seen that I could live with are the Pioneer pro MXE models. Finally something with good contrast, decent image processing (the bane of most plasma and LCD's IMHO), and broadcast reference colour reproduction. Its also 30% brighter than any other plasma on the market.

Pioneer pro models come with an in home calibration which goes by far and away beyond a 'setup'

What does the calibration include??

ISF calibration of the panel matched to your source devices.