I've had a Samsung HL-P4663W for a year. The TV is on for an average of 5-6 hours a day. The TV still has the original bulb. It's been somewhere around 1800-2100 hours of use so far.
I think the people who have repeated problems and very short bulb life are those who use the "Dynamic" setting on their TVs. "Dynamic" is intended for use in brightly lit environments, not the average home set-up. If these individuals read the owner's manual and/or calibrated their sets I think that DLPs would have a better reputation. It's always the idiots who shout the loudest and create the negative perceptions.
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Wayne @ May 5th 2006 11:14AM
I've had a Samsung HL-P4663W for a year. The TV is on for an average of 5-6 hours a day. The TV still has the original bulb. It's been somewhere around 1800-2100 hours of use so far.
I think the people who have repeated problems and very short bulb life are those who use the "Dynamic" setting on their TVs. "Dynamic" is intended for use in brightly lit environments, not the average home set-up. If these individuals read the owner's manual and/or calibrated their sets I think that DLPs would have a better reputation. It's always the idiots who shout the loudest and create the negative perceptions.