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I’ve had the amazing luck to get a free infocus pl770 projector. Can someone teach me how to treat this new toy right?
It was used in a school, but it would keep shutting off for no reason. I asked the parts guy and he liked me. So, wow! I have a projector! Anyways I fixed the concern: Too much dust in the front intake filter. (How sad, it may have sat in that warehouse for years for something so simple)

I have a white sheet set up against a wall to get the image and I am using it in a controlled light room. The image is clean and very bright. My speakers are set up behind the bed sheet. This makes for a cool setup, but the light definately bleeds through and softens the image.

My questions are this:

1. The bulb has 268 hours accrued but probably shut off and turned on a whole bunch of times before they put it out of commission. What is the lifespan of these bulbs?

2. What are some ways I can keep it bright and good looking for the years to come?

3. I don’t have money. What are some extremely cheap ways to make the screen better?

4. Is this projector a good model?

“What resolution projector should I buy?” This is a question that is asked frequently. The answer is dependent on your specific needs. To help you better understand how your needs equate to projector resolution, we’ve detailed a number of scenarios (below) that require different projector resolutions.

I am on a tight budget. I just need […]

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The school where I teach recently purchased a LCD projector and I’m having some trouble getting it to play video… [mi]
It’s a Hitachi cp-x328 and it seems to be working fine, until i try to play a video file (ie: avi, .mpg, vts type files) in windows media player or powerdvd. quicktime converts/plays the aforementioned files fine (vts, of course being the exception). but wmp and powerdvd just show a blank screen on the projector image, despite the fact that the laptop dispaly is showing the playback fine. all the other desktop features are still visible on the projector’s display, but the video window is just black. the children will not accept this.

both the laptop and the projector are set to 60hz. the projector’s set to auto select the video input type, but even when i manually switch to ntsc i still get no video playback. however, the projector’s picking up the audio signal fine. what am i missing? the problem seems like it should be simple enough to solve, but i’m stumped.

The first and most fundamental question about front projections is, “is it right for me?” It depends. Let’s run through the criteria we think is necessary to go forward with a front projector purchase.
Controlled lighting - Front projectors throw light onto a screen. The projected light is then reflected back to your eye.
The problem with […]

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