8.3 months at 24hours a day, extends to 6 years at the more reasonable 4 hours a day. I'd be OK with that (6 years seems about right for TV upgrades anyway..but then again it'd be a lottery win before I spend 10k on a TV)

Yeah, if you're prepared to drop £10k on the projector I can't imagine another £500 on a spare bulb is going to be too troubling…

Burning a ‘whole’? Really Hexus? ;) Friday afternoon is no excuse for that.

495.6mm x 195.3mm x 463.6mm

OMG, it's so big!

Said the actress to the bishop

Lanky123
Yeah, if you're prepared to drop £10k on the projector I can't imagine another £500 on a spare bulb is going to be too troubling…

Whoever buys this will spend £500 straight away getting it calibrated. They'll change the bulb well before 6000 hours - as soon as it dims at all, probably in the 1500-2000 hour range.

Although I'd not get a projector myself for home use I do use them lots at gigs to project either the bands image/vids or the better half uses Arkaos to mix video. Brightness is always the enemy though so I'd like to see reviews of more humble projectors please!

The cost is so much that you could get a brand new 55“ TV every year for the next dozen years, so unless you are super super rich and have money to burn, it makes no economical sense whatsoever. I wouldn't even want to splash out on a single 55” TV, due to the cost, so a £10k projector is in a completely different league altogether. I understand you'd get a much bigger image if it is projected on a wall, but then you'd have to sit even further away to appreciate it, which leads to the question: ‘Why bother?’ :P

To those saying they could get XX number of 55“ TVs for this - yes maybe you could but then you still only have a puny little 55” display for life.

After I got used to watching movies and everything else on a 4 metre screen I can never watch them on a tiny TV screen again no matter how many gimmicks manufacturers come up with to make you think the picture is somehow better.

Anyway if I had lottery money I might consider this model, but you can get 90% of the functionality for less than €3K with the lower models (only thing missing is 4k which you don't need for 99% of stuff and lower quality manual lens). But of course with lottery money I would be going for this models bigger brothers the 1100ES or 5000ES and that's about €50k - if you think this one is big…