Gotta love DLP tv's

[larlev]

Just replaced my lamp after 3 years, and cleaned the mirrors. They were awful...the foam seal came loose and dust was thick on the front mirror.

Anyway....WOW a brand new TV again...I can't get over how well the greens and fairways look now.

I bought the TV for Golf and Football.....man I am in love with it all over again.

Anyone that has had theres for a couple years...clean the mirrors it's worth it...took me less than 45 min.

[ctmurrray]

Just replaced my lamp after 3 years, and cleaned the mirrors. They were awful...the foam seal came loose and dust was thick on the front mirror.

I believe the mirrors themselves are behind a glass covering, but am still surprised the design still allows dust to get in the way of the light path as to result in degradation of the image. I got a dog and pony demo at TI once, the history and technology of DLP are really cool.

You should clean out your PC once in awhile too. The fan blades and CPU heatsink that get covered with dust, thus reducing their function. In particular the fins of the heat sink really, really need to have unfettered access to moving air.

[larlev]

My picture was really poor compared to when it was new...I just figured the lamp was loosing some of its brightness. I was wrong.

On my Mitsubishi the projector lens and the first mirror are accessed by removing the screen...the entire back of the TV is one big mirror..this one was clean, it was the front screen that was really dirty.

There was a foam seal around the projector lens, it had come loose allowing dust to infiltrate...this has been an issue with Mitsu.

It was kinda cool to see how the mirrors are positioned...I had no idea

[ctmurrray]

My picture was really poor compared to when it was new...I just figured the lamp was loosing some of its brightness. I was wrong.

I thought you were talking about the 1 million mirrors on the imaging surface, I had forgotten about all the mirrors that might be involved in getting the DLP image to your screen.

[larlev]

Oh man.....that would have been a nightmare if those were dirty.....they say that dust will not settle on the mirror wheel, it spins so fast it acts like a blower.

[Pinseeker81]

My 61" has over 2,000,000 tiny mirrors in it. Over 2,000,000 places for Murphy's Law to take hold conveniantly packaged in a plastic box for the living room....lol.

The mirrors do not spin though, the spinning wheel is just a color wheel that the pixel mirrors shine through. It spins at more or less 14,000rpm.

Just thinking about the coordination required to pull off a single pixel working right gives one a headache.

[larlev]

My 61" has over 2,000,000 tiny mirrors in it. Over 2,000,000 places for Murphy's Law to take hold conveniantly packaged in a plastic box for the living room....lol.

I still can't believe the difference.....freakin amazing

[JeffG]

DLPs just have never really done it for me. All the colors are a little too cartoonish...I got a Sony SXRD Lcos rear projection. The colors seem more lifelike and cinema-like...

Still, my friend has a samsung LED DLP and it looks pretty good.

[larlev]

DLPs just have never really done it for me. All the colors are a little too cartoonish...I got a Sony SXRD Lcos rear projection. The colors seem more lifelike and cinema-like...

You have to adjust the levels to fit your space...I have seen some that had the contrast or color levels way high and it looked terrible.

Mine looks like I am right there in the scene....HDTV is a must if you have one, I have a friend who still has reg. TV....what's the point in that?