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]

Originally Posted by 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

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?

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]

Originally Posted by BBx

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

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]

Originally Posted by 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).

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

MB