Testing the water: selling my projector

[Matblack]

I'm just testing the water with this really, I have a Sanyo Z4 projector at home, it has been really really good and remains an excellent home cinema unit for SD and HD projection (it is 720 native), it has never missed a beat. I will probably need a new bulb in the next few hundred hours of use. The tell tale sign is when they develop a slight flicker in Eco mode and need full power to give a good output, this bulb is in that situation, a new bulb is ~£150 and would last 2000-3000 hours in my experience.

I paid £1200 three years ago, secondhand projectors don't have a very high resale because the bulb is comparatively expensive but I'd be willing to consider a sensible offer if anyone would like a bargain working projector which gives fantastic reproduction, with the provisio that you will need to spend ~£150 on it in the next few months for a new bulb or be running it as a bangernomics purchase. With that in mind and the fact it would need collecting, offers in the region of £200 would be strongly considered :)

Reason for sale is the itch to by a new 1080 projector

Likelyhood is my 24-105mm L glass will be going soon too to help to fund this.

MB

[Matblack]

Currently on hold pending confirmation of an offer of the asking price of £200

MB

[BBx]

I may need to get a projector for work - going to the new office in the next week to check out the meeting room - better to have a projector and computer networked in there permanently. So I might need to bend your ear on projectors etc :)

BB x

[Matblack]

I may need to get a projector for work - going to the new office in the next week to check out the meeting room - better to have a projector and computer networked in there permanently. So I might need to bend your ear on projectors etc :)

BB x

Sure, although business projectors are not my forte

MB

[Matblack]

Ahhh the projector is actually a Sanyo Z5, which is the updated version and makes this an even better deal :)

MB

[BBx]

Oh so something like what you have would be no good for a meeting room?:huh:

BB x

[Mark]

Not really, no. It's a different market. HD projectors are designed for high quality output and need a dark room to achieve that (the sort of darkness that would give your local H&S rep nightmares). Office projectors tend to have more light output but less image quality (because image quality doesn't matter so much).

E.g. Z5 = 1100 lumen, typical office projector = about 2500 lumen.

PS - You can get a new office projector for the same sort of money MB is asking (inc. new bulb).

[Desmo]

I'm very seriously tempted, but I shouldn't ::/:

[Matblack]

Oh so something like what you have would be no good for a meeting room?:huh:

BB x

Depends what you want it to do, my projector is best suited to reproducing the tones of movies and games, business projectors tend to have a higher lumens (brightness output) and be more contrasty to be able to deal with more ambient light.

For business you need to consider how dark you want to make the room how far away you are projecting from (brightness falls off with distance from the screen) and what resolution you want.

The are two main types of projector (there are others); DLP and LCD, each has it's pros and cons. DLP uses a spinning colour wheel and rapidly switches between outputing the main colours of the spectrum, this fool (most peoples) eyes into seeing a single colour picture. I favor LCD which uses 3 seperate panels to give a single picture. DLP gives some people a headache and the impression there are rainbows around bright areas on the screen. LCD is well suited to business use DLP better for movies if your eyes can tolerate it, mine can't.

MB

[Matblack]

Not really, no. It's a different market. HD projectors are designed for high quality output and need a dark room to achieve that (the sort of darkness that would give your local H&S rep nightmares). Office projectors tend to have more light output but less image quality (because image quality doesn't matter so much).

E.g. Z5 = 1100 lumen, typical office projector = about 2500 lumen.

PS - You can get a new office projector for the same sort of money MB is asking (inc. new bulb).

A business projector for £200 wouldn't be much cop, you'd be compromising, although £500 would get you something useable.

MB

[Matblack]

OK this is back on the market as the enquirer is too scared of his other half to go through with it and doesn't think she'll approve. :p


If anyone wants it who is going to the wedding I will happily bring it with me.

Don't make me Ebay this guys, it's got lots of life left in the unit despite the need for a new bulb sooner or later.

MB

[Del Lardo]

OK this is back on the market as the enquirer is too scared of his other half to go through with it and doesn't think she'll approve. :p



http://forums.seloc.org/images/smilies/nono.gif it's my landlord who would kill me when I started drilling holes into walls and ceilings :p

[Matblack]

Pah! I know loads of people who put them on top of shelving units on just pop it on the coffee table when you want to use it :)

The lens shift on these is great so you can pop it down low and still get a perfect non keystoned picture 5 feet higher than the unit!

http://www.projectorcentral.com/sanyo_plv-z5.htm

http://www.pws-sales.com/news/buyers-guide-/projector-lens-shift.html

MB

[Desmo]

Bring the projector.....and I'm not joking :D

[Zirax]

Bring the projector.....and I'm not joking :D

Hmmm, I'll be second in line behind him :)

[Mark]

I detect a 1080 projector in MB's near-future. ;D

[Zirax]

Jim needs this projector, and MB needs 1080. I think it's a win win :D

[Matblack]

Your detection skills are good, a Sanyo Z800 now hangs from my ceiling and is projecting a lovely image directly in front of me :)

MB

[Psymonkee]

So sorely tempted. Must. SAVE. Money! :(

[Del Lardo]

Pah! I know loads of people who put them on top of shelving units on just pop it on the coffee table when you want to use it :)


You've clearly never seen what happens when I have access to alcohol and a bad idea ;D

[Glaucus]

Would love this, will have to see how much overtime I get between now and payday,, that's if you still have it.

[Desmo]

Well, it's currently sitting in my front room :D

Going to give it a whirl over the next couple of days and as long as I have no problem with finding a decent place to set it up, I'll be keeping it :)