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Barco = the mummy & daddy of projectors IMO
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Dear mr tax man. I don't want a free house and I don't want all my bills paid
for me. I don't need a fancy pair of trainers, a quick slick phone or sky TV.
However, I DO want a projector. So how about I don't bother going to work
anymore, go get some girl knocked up and YOU put that projector in the
post. Sound reasonable?

Doug H

Ps. Forget putting it in the post, I'll never get it. Try E.D.S. or Interlink.
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Originally posted by tom425

Ill second the use of NEC projectors and also BENQ, we have quite a lot of these at the school I work at.  From experience I wouldn't recommend HP (I have a pile of broken ones behind me) the HP parts are  expensive and regularly they seem to break.

We had that problem too, we bought 20 and 15 months later 15 of them were on the scrap pile. Just not up to the job. I did hear that HP withdrew from the projector market shortly after we purchased those!

Speaking to a mate who is in the trade he reckons you wont go far wrong with a BENQ MP623 cost around £400 to buy, lamps around £140 (all plus government robbery of course).
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Ill second the use of NEC projectors and also BENQ, we have quite a lot of these at the school I work at.  From experience I wouldn't recommend HP (I have a pile of broken ones behind me) the HP parts are  expensive and regularly they seem to break.

Aim for 4000+ lamp hours, 2000 ANSI Lumens or more and check the price of replacement lamps as these can often end up costing more than the projector itself.

The resolution the projector can handle is also another consideration, ideally for widescreen projection you will need one that can handle WXGA resolutions but you can get away with XGA resolutions it just often means changing a few screen settings on your laptop.

May I suggest: http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details .asp?EdpNo=401212&CatId=1476   failing that there are many cheaper models available on the market which will do the job jsut fine...
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We have NEC projectors at school (Where I work!) and a good one for portableness is the NEC NP200. It is filterless so no issues there but as has been mentioned the lamps do cost a lot, normally about £300 quid but do last approx 2000 hours. Do make sure you turn the projector off using the button on the projector and let it cool down before unplugging it. So Often people turn the thing off and then they pull the plug not realising its not like a tv/light etc that needs time to cool down.

Like anything what is new now will be old in a few months time.
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Originally posted by winging it

I share your interest Doug, and I'd also be interested to know which camcorder you bought.  I have access to a professional quality video recorder, but its a proper tripod mounted jobby so only good for use on shore.

I have a JVC HDD camcorder that could be borrowed if you need a mobile one Nessa. It is not waterproof though....
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When you get one always make sure you let it turn off using it's own power down feature, if not you will cook the lamp and they are not cheap to replace!

Having worked in a school where we had lots of our beloved teachers blow them up we changed the switched fused spurs to straight fused spurs so they HAD to power them down properly!
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Originally posted by Doug.H

I've got the Sany VPC CA9. It's absolutely brilliant and well worth the money
I thought. Bought it from cliftoncameras.co.uk


had my eye on one of those myself, might go on the xmas list however..

A lot of the cheaper projectors around are really designed just for home market and won't work that well in a sailing club during the day (i.e. can't close curtains) - eg Acer K10 - I think you should be really looking at 2000 lumens min for it to work successfully. The comparison table here looks quite useful

With ex-hire I'd be a bit worried about lamp hours as replacement bulbs can be horrendous...

Have you spoken to some of the other coaches about what they use?
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Thanks chap, never thought of that.
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As per MSN - go Ex-Hire.

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