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Well my receiver is not compatible to hd audio.
There is absolutely no reason that you have to upgrade your receiver incase you were to upgrade your projector. The projector has nothing to do with the audio and therefore I personally do not understand the connection here. Upgrading the projector is only and only about upgrading the picture. Any upgrading of the audio is a totally separate issue. Whether you upgrade the audio or not, will have no bearing on the upgraded picture that you will get with a new 1080p projector.
By the way, I have had a 1080p projector for over two years now and I have been viewing blu-rays for over three years, but I still have not upgraded my receiver for HD audio. Although I must add, that I am still able to get HD audio fro mthe analog outputs of my Oppo blu-ray player. Upgrading my receiver would entail a cost of approx. Rs. 3 lakhs and I just do not find it worth it, specially since I am able to get HD audio via the analog outputs of the blu-ray player.
I will surely prefer to upgrade the entire audio video gear in say every 5 years or so instead of doing it in peace meals and in-directly keep storing the money aside in frequent intervals for the large upgrade but sure all ways are okay for upgrade depending upon their like and means.
I sincerely appreciate the fact that everyone has their own reasons for doing things and it is impossible and certainly wrong for someone else to judge for them what is right and wrong. Specially, when the decision involves, how much and when to spend on a purchase. All I am saying though, is that the HD audio factor is not relevant to your dilemma, of deciding whether to spend Rs. 40k on a replacement lamp or buy a new projector.
I am considering to spend that Rs40,000/- on the bulb but it is going to be a very tough call, i may just drop this spending
All i can say is, I do not envy your dilemma and I can fully understand the confusion you must be facing at this juncture considering the huge cost of replacing the lamp. For what it's worth, spending Rs. 40,000 at this stage, on an old 720p projector, specially when newer much better projectors are available for only slightly more, is something I would strongly recommend against.
In case you wish to stick to your old projector, I suggest that you buy a third party, cheaper lamp. Like the one you mentioned, that is available for Rs. 12,000. Then, maybe in a year or so, when you are more comfortable with the idea, upgrade the projector.
even in rarest case if i consider for the new projector i will have to upgrade the receiver also, so at end of the day cost just keeps going up and there is hardly any resale value of projectors or other gears.
Again, at the expense of sounding repetitive, I would like to point out that you do not "have to", or for that matter 'need to', upgrade your receiver incase you do decide to buy a new projector.
Well i do not watch movies via blue ray, i only download movies for watching and these are all between 4 & 6 GB file, i think in these digital formats there are limited movies in 1080P.
I understand, but the 1080p is something that I would consider as only an added bonus in your situation. The primary factor behind my recommendation, is the relatively small difference in the cost of the replacement lamp and the price of a new projector. At the very least do check out the current 'grey market' prices of a few projectors before deciding. By the way, 'grey market' prices in addition to being much lower, also make a lot of sense in your situation, since the replacement lamp you will buy, will in any case not come with any warranty, nor will it add warranty coverage to your old projector.
Among my fears is that if i order the bulb, they are telling me it will arrive after several days, but first i have to make the payment and for such days i do not know how much it could be enlarged causing frustrations, i very often go out of the way so that i do not fall into these bad phases while that is a another story that i do not mind trusting the Hitachi people directly or via them for waiting for the bulb to arrive.
In my case I had not paid an advance since I knew the seller well and therefore I was able to get out of the commitment to buy because of the inordinate delays. If I had paid an advance I would have been stuck and would have had to wait for god only knows how much longer than the one month I had already waited. Have you considered the 'small' possiblity of there being somethign else wrong with your projector other than the lamp itself? I was fortunate enought to be able to test my projector with another lamp to confirm that it was the lamp that had died and that there was nothing else wrong with my projector. I too had been sceptical like you, considering that the lamp had died on me so suddenly and that too without any warning.
I also want to have an experience like you and which is possible probably via original lamp from Hitachi, it is relief to know that my thought process was right with the third party lamp there is always a risk of lower quality in picture and some un-forseen issues, unless the seller is able to give us a proper demo of the lamp, which could be rare possibility.
I'm sorry for sounding contradictry to what I may have said earlier, but considering the very high price of an 'original' Hitachi lamp and under the circumstances as explained above, I feel that in case you are not ready for a new projector then you might be better of buying a cheaper third party lamp.
Indeed it is true that audio and video gears can easily run more then 4 hours but i was just wondering that during many phases actually they are not running but are on stand-by mode, so was wondering stand-by is more risky though such chances seem less and you are also throwing the light that not to worry on this stand-by factor. About the ventilation, it seems you are saying that there should be enough open area for the hot air to flow out, if such is the point, then i have taken good care and about the room cooling, i always use the a/c, no wonder i never got the fan installed in my mini theatre because then there will be times when we will be tempted to use the fan instead of a/c.
I actually use a timer watch from my i-pod for the exact 30 or 45 minutes break, this gives me the opportunity to catch up with the routine activity in stocks and related and the discipline of not putting the projector on sooner then later. Over here in Mumbai, power fluctuations or failures are quite rare so we are relived from this issue.
It's good to know that you take care of your HT equipment so methodically. You seem to be a "man after my own heart". Although there is a fan in my HT room, as a rule no one in my family ever turns it on. Another very good reason to not use fans, is to avoid all the dust that a fan circulates in the room and which is certainly not good for the equipment, specially a projector. Regarding the power fluctuations/failures, you Mumbai guys are lucky. Try having to deal with the power situation here in the NCR.
. We'll find something soon. Btw, the difference is more than 20k between US and buying here. Not sure of grey prices though.
