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mike calcott
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:34 am Post subject: Advice please Guys |
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 My current projector is a Sony 1251 with DD &DE boards taking it up to 1271 specs I have PT165 lens's and it will resolve BLU_RAY at 1090i or HDTV at 720p in sparkling form, it has only 328 original hours and was aquired with only 28hours from new, everything about this PJ is like new. I have the opportunity to aquire a Barco 808s at a reasonable price. in Curt's ranking the Barco is rated higher than the Sony, the resolution is the same the scan rate is higher ( but I wont need it as I am not using a quadrupler) and the output is 1200 lumens against 800 for the Sony. The Barco has 7000 hours against the 328 hours on the Sony. Is here any other benifit changing to the Barco or am I better sticking with the Sony. All advice would be gratefully received.
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Nashou66
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Joust
Joined: 05 May 2006
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Location: Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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thats good advice.
If you cannot afford that then just stick with your sony. Sounds like you are happy with it.
put some mods into it if you want some improvements.
Better lenses for instance. HD 144/145 will go on with my adapters.
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Curt Palme
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IN about 2500 hours, the Sony will be less sharp than the Barco. With the BArco, it will all be about the tube condition. If the 7000 hours was put on in standby mode, the tubes are fine. If 2000 hours had a Windows NT logo on dead center of the screen, one or more tubes could be toast.
If the Barco is under $250 USD, grab it regardless, you can part it out for more than that.
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ecrabb
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I assume this is a BD (Data) 808s, and not a BG (graphics)? Is the Data color-filtered? The Graphics was the only one with Scheimpflug, right?
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JustGreg
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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Location: Kenosha, WI
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| Joust wrote: | thats good advice.
If you cannot afford that then just stick with your sony. Sounds like you are happy with it.
put some mods into it if you want some improvements.
Better lenses for instance. HD 144/145 will go on with my adapters. |
I totally agree. If it's just a matter of having something 'better' because of where it falls on a ranking chart, then it's not a worthy purchase. Espcecialy so when you already have something you speak so highly and proudly of. (due in no small part to the attention you've already given it). On the flip side, as has been said, if it's a deal you feel might not come your way again for a long long time.....GRAB THAT SUCKER! 
Go ahead. Feed the need! You know you wanna! 
Greg
Note: I've got a Barco 800 still in the crate in my garage that I just couldn't pass up...It was FREEEEEEEE! It has something like 300 hrs on it and came from Curt, sold to a guy in Milwaukee a few years ago.
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mike calcott
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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I let the Barco go, it was a graphics 808s but the tubes havegot a little burn in which could have been overcome but the asking price is more than I wanted to pay for a PJ that could need some retubing ($800)
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