See quite a few of these sets with the shadow you describe. Fix is to have
the light engine rebuilt by a company like PTS in Bloomington, Indiana.
Check their web site regarding cost and contact information. Otherwise, if
it is under service contract, call the service company to check it out. Lamp
will not cause this symptom nor will the colour wheel. Cheers.Meat Plow"
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:00:52 -0500, Jamie wrote:

I haven't yet looked at the unit how ever, last night as the wife
turns off the DLP 61", I noticed a brighter band about 15 % of
the screens vertical height kind of showing as a brighter part of
the image at an angle. The rest of the image looked ok but I noticed
it was dimmer than it should be. If I didn't know any better, it almost
looks like something hanging in front of the lamp like a wire or
reflecting off some where.
My analogy of this tells me I may have a bad lamp with a hanging
element in it or, maybe something has fallen in the optical area?
What do you think?

Like another posted, a displaced mirror in the light tunnel would cause a
shaded zone in the picture.

Not to mildly change the subject, I once got a call from a lady who was
terrified about a shadow of a spider inside her rear projector Mitsubishi.
She wanted to pay 75 bucks for a house call to remove it. I told her it
would probably go away but she insisted however it was gone by the time I
got there later in the day. I did however clean the optics and did a
dynamic alignment and she was thrilled at the revival of her picture.