David wrote:
Where did you get those $$ amounts?

If the bulb is shot, good luck finding it for less than $400 by
itself. Call Infocus and see if they even still will repair the unit.
Typical ballast circuit repair/replacement is $300 not including the
lamp.

David

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Somebody's gonna make a projector with a $100/2000 hour/2000 lumen
replacement bulb and sweep the market...maybe actually use an existing type
lamp (maybe one of the numerous, multiple sourced, stage lighting types?)
instead of designing one which will only fit that model. At that point, LCD
projectors will become economical for home viewing.

jak