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



Don't hold your breath. Yeah there's some gouging going on, but the lamps
are expensive because they're precision made, taking into account
brightness, color temperature, color rendering index, uniformity, warmup
time, etc, there's a lot more to it than just producing a bright light. The
best hope is that the technology will stabilize and lamps will become
standard across at least projectors of the same class.