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ponyo

Lifer
Feb 14, 2002
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For those of you who use projectors how often do you change the bulb or colour wheel? And is it hard to get parts? We used to use projectors at work for our displays (on 24/7) but every time the bulb or colour wheel blew we had to get a whole new projector because they no longer made the parts for it. What sucked is we stocked up on bulbs once but then the colour wheel blew so they sent us a whole different model projector and now all those bulbs were useless. It was a Dell, so I don't know if maybe that's an issue specific to Dell and maybe other brands are better.

I always thought a 4k projector filling an entire wall from top to bottom would be pretty awesome. Imagine gaming on that. Once I get rid of the fireplace I will have a nice blank wall to consider options with. Probably just end up sticking with the TV though. Not even sure if I want to move it to that wall yet. Original plan is to just put the couch there and leave TV as is.

I have LED projector so there's no bulb to change, no color wheel to shatter, and no air filter to maintain. It's no maintenance projector which I love.
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
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For those of you who use projectors how often do you change the bulb or colour wheel? And is it hard to get parts? We used to use projectors at work for our displays (on 24/7) but every time the bulb or colour wheel blew we had to get a whole new projector because they no longer made the parts for it. What sucked is we stocked up on bulbs once but then the colour wheel blew so they sent us a whole different model projector and now all those bulbs were useless. It was a Dell, so I don't know if maybe that's an issue specific to Dell and maybe other brands are better.

I always thought a 4k projector filling an entire wall from top to bottom would be pretty awesome. Imagine gaming on that. Once I get rid of the fireplace I will have a nice blank wall to consider options with. Probably just end up sticking with the TV though. Not even sure if I want to move it to that wall yet. Original plan is to just put the couch there and leave TV as is.
I've had my projector 4 years and never changed the bulb. I probably have between 2500 and 3000 hours on it if I had to guess.
 

bruceb

Diamond Member
Aug 20, 2004
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Look at Amazon.com or ebay.com ... There are plenty of places still selling the color wheels for Dell Projector sets ... not cheap .. they run around $70 each
 

BUTCH1

Lifer
Jul 15, 2000
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42" Panasonic Plasma. 10 years old, lots of hours ( Almost 18,000 last check) and hope it never dies, dont know what I could replace it with. thebestTV ever. I would have liked a bigger screen but at the time I bought a 50" was almost $800 more.

Plasma has been gradually phased out at this point, my brother has one and swears by it. You, (like myself) bought about 9-10 yrs ago so going from a "42 to a "50 was $1,000 more. If/when your set goes out don't be bummed, you will be surprised how far LCD's have come in 10 years and you will probably pay less than 1/2 what the Panny cost you.
 

clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
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You said smart hub so I presume Samsung. I have had the same issue with Amazon Video not launching and a quicker fix was to unplug the tv for a few seconds. It worked once, hopefully it works again next time it happens... hopefully it never happens again but it has been twice so far (first time I did a full tv reset, as the smart hub reset was insufficient).

Yes sir, I have a Samsung UN55KU6270FXZA. I've had issues with both Amazon Video and YouTube not launching and they usually started working about a day after I first noticed the problem. The last time it happened to Amazon Video, resetting the Smart Hub and then doing a Factory Reset did not fix the issue. It just resolved on its own like a day later.

I will say that since the last (firmware) update I did on the TV (a little message came up near the top several days ago saying a new version was out) that I haven't had a problem, so I'm crossing my fingers it's resolved. It sure is/was an annoying f'ing problem.
 
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