Someone is offering a running NEC 9PG near me.
I was wondering if clean tubes are stilll made or are on the auction market for these. I have a Sony 1271 right now with 9G 10R 7B tubes thinking this might be an upgrade. The EM focus sounds attractive. I'm thinking it might handle 1080i a little better than my Sony too. I think I can also sell my Sony for more than I would pay for this and could use the extra cash to buy new tubes.
I have never considered anything but a Sony because its been such a tank and I love it.

Any other advice owning and maintaining this projector would be nice.

Looks like I am looking into the same one Levy decided against.

http://www.curtpalme.com/PJSpecs_NEC.shtm

http://www.curtpalme.com/NECPG.shtm

http://www.curtpalme.com/PJSpecs_NEC.shtm

http://www.curtpalme.com/NECPG.shtm

Thanks. Already spotted, but I read it again anyway.

I've got one new old stock set of tubes left for the PG @ $390 USD plus shipping. I won't separate them, sorry!

Understandable. What is availability on tubes for this now? New, refurbed, users and auction market?

Eg. I know with my Sony there are no new, they can't be rebuilt...at least not well and there are almost none out there.

If I got 400 on Craigslist for my Sony that would be no problem. Although paying for three tubes plus shipping from Canada and setting up three tubes sucks some of the fun out of a bargain. I'm even going to try for 800 on the 1271 as ridiculous as that sounds. No shipping costs and actually seeing it working is something almost no one gets to do when buying these. I seriously think I can get that with a little marketing. Anyone local stepping into my theater would be like a spider in a trap.

$hit, and I just gave a perfect PG blue away.

Not worth the bother of selling, and he's a mate, and he could use it.


Even a PG is well below entry level this days. Aim higher atomiccow.

I went from a sony 1252 to a 9PG+ and I love the picture. It was a huge upgrade for me. I also have wear similar to what you described.
I say go for it as long as the price is right. I paid $330 for my 9PG+ from a member on here. I don't think that you will be able to get anywhere near $400 for your 1272 however.
-Greg D.

Aim higher cow!
I am. :)
I'm shooting for a G70. Videogon is not finishing my registration so I can talk to the sellers. Upsetting. If I get a small boost with an NEC and can make a profit selling my Sony to an LA local. Even though I bought my 1271 for 300 bucks I am not selling it to a local cheap. Only the blue has wear and its still pretty decent. And they will actually get to see it running in my theater. If they know their alternative is the picture on a portable I think I can get more than twice what I paid for it. Curt Palme has this model NEC listed as an intermediate. My Sony is entry level. I like that it has EM focus and kind of hope it does a more solid job with 1080i than mine. Its not my dream projector. I still love mine. But I want to sell it while its still enviable. Before the whites are obviously yellow.

I say go for it as long as the price is right. I paid $330 for my 9PG+ from a member on here. I don't think that you will be able to get anywhere near $400 for your 1272 however.
-Greg D.


I'm counting on the advantage of showing it off in my theater and I will only sell it locally to someone who will come see it. I'm not going to sell it for what they usually go for now. I won't
sell it in the AVSforums, Videogon forums or on Ebay. I am playing from the strength of presentation. I have it set up in a room with Ralph Lauren paint on the walls and cove lighting and carpeting and plush recliners and velvet screen masking.
I'm selling the picture not the projector as they say. I doubt I will get 800, which is what I am going to ask for. But no one is going to get it for less than 500. I'm not a motivated seller. The new one doesn't go up until the Sony is sold. Because I have bought one of these I know the anxiety of the buyer about getting one that works. Sure he can buy a three hundred dollar one.
But what's he going to get? I am seeing some pretty nasty blue tubes being offered on the market. Mine have a full raster 4:3 light even burn on the blue only. Its off white but its not yellow yet. It looks brilliant playing Blu Ray.

There are times when I am willing to pay over 300 just for a blue tube. There have to be people in LA that know they want a CRT and don't want the iffiness and cost of having it mailed to them when they have an excellent known quantity here they can take home and start playing tonight without the heartaches and websearches.

I might as well put it out there now that I might be looking for a blue and a green assuming this projector has as many hours as I have heard. If anyone wants to PM me with another offer. Or just let me know what you have seen them go for. No insult to Curt intended. Its just that I don't really want to pay for a set plus shipping from Canada if I don't need two. Nor do I really want to install three tubes if I only need install one or two.

Also I'm going to need to fill my existing screen which is 4:3 120 diag. I hear I have to set this furthur back, Does anyone know how much furthur? I am going to have to patch the ceiling.

I'm counting on the advantage of showing it off in my theater and I will only sell it locally to someone who will come see it. I'm not going to sell it for what they usually go for now. I won't
sell it in the AVSforums, Videogon forums or on Ebay. I am playing from the strength of presentation. I have it set up in a room with Ralph Lauren paint on the walls and cove lighting and carpeting and plush recliners and velvet screen masking.
I'm selling the picture not the projector as they say. I doubt I will get 800, which is what I am going to ask for. But no one is going to get it for less than 500. I'm not a motivated seller. The new one doesn't go up until the Sony is sold. Because I have bought one of these I know the anxiety of the buyer about getting one that works. Sure he can buy a three hundred dollar one.
But what's he going to get? I am seeing some pretty nasty blue tubes being offered on the market. Mine have a full raster 4:3 light even burn on the blue only. Its off white but its not yellow yet. It looks brilliant playing Blu Ray.

There are times when I am willing to pay over 300 just for a blue tube. There have to be people in LA that know they want a CRT and don't want the iffiness and cost of having it mailed to them when they have an excellent known quantity here they can take home and start playing tonight without the heartaches and websearches.

Good luck and maybe the LA market is better for CRTs but I had 0 interest in selling a Barco 808s locally which is a few steps above your 1272 and it had very good high res P16 tubes. I was asking only $500 by the end and got NO local interest at all on CL. I even listed on CL sites for cities that are within 90 mins of mine. Again no interest (not counting the usual CL scammers who wanted their agent to pickup my "item"). You aren't going to be able impress them with your theater if they don't even respond to your ad. I eventually moved it on Ebay as local pickup only for $475 - Ebay fees. And like you I wasn't a terribly motivated seller.

Aim high if you want (I tried for higher than $500 with my Barco initially) but don't plan on selling it for that. You might get lucky or you might not. My guess is these days you would be lucky to get $200 to $250 and I think you are dreaming if you think you can get anywhere near $800 for it.

Good luck and maybe the LA market is better for CRTs but I had 0 interest in selling a Barco 808s locally which is a few steps above your 1272 and it had very good high res P16 tubes. I was asking only $500 by the end and got NO local interest at all on CL. I even listed on CL sites for cities that are within 90 mins of mine. Again no interest (not counting the usual CL scammers who wanted their agent to pickup my "item"). You aren't going to be able impress them with your theater if they don't even respond to your ad. I eventually moved it on Ebay as local pickup only for $475 - Ebay fees. And like you I wasn't a terribly motivated seller.

Aim high if you want (I tried for higher than $500 with my Barco initially) but don't plan on selling it for that. You might get lucky or you might not. My guess is these days you would be lucky to get $200 to $250 and I think you are dreaming if you think you can get anywhere near $800 for it.

Well its good to have realistic expectations. $500 is what I am actually hoping for. I suppose I could extend my base clientel by offering delivery from Southern to central California and squeeze in a trip to visit Mom and Dad as an excuse.
My ad really talks little about the projector, nothing about the tubes. And in fact am not even showing a photo of the projector. Just the theater. I am heavily selling the best movie experience possible for a home, leaning on the idea that once they see it they will not be satisfied with digitals they can purchase that will cost up to seven times the price. I'm boasting they have never seen a movie experience this good in a home anywhere and can't buy it at Best Buy or Fry's. For almost everyone reading the ad, this will be true.

I am hoping to capitalize on something most projector buyers have to deal with. They can never see the projector they want in action. And the anxiety of the potential CRT buyer afraid to buying an unknown commodity on Ebay. I may even make an ad on Ebay not auctioning anything but getting them into my house. It might fail colossally. But I'll never win selling the box and its model number. I might win selling the experience. I may need to put up ads in local laudrymats to people who are completely not savy at all about projectors. I may put up a telephone poll ad in my neighborhood where my theater already has a reputation.

I'm doing this to champion CRT owners everywhere selling their box off cheap.
I am dreaming. I know where you are coming from because I wrote and seriously irritated a guy on Ebay telling him his price was way too high. He was asking 1700 for a 1270. I told him I paid 300 for mine and he of course wrote me back an angry letter and told me to shut up. I have what I think is an effective pitch for why the buyer who asks me why I am asking 800 for a projector that can be bought for 300. And he might be the guy who buys it for 500. I don't know.

Anyway thanks for the good wishes. I know how dubious my endeavour is.

Last year I sold a BD801S for 450 on CL (...I had bought it from CL and sold it there!...LA is actually the best place in my opinion for such items! ...It seems that there are more people looking for such things! ...BTW: 450 was what I had paid for it when I got it from a local guy a couple of years earlier!)

Oh and I included a stand alone Moome box with it...(...buyer was every happy about that one!)

There are folks out there looking for these CRTs...Although finding/selling it to them is an entirely different thing!

Be patient and chances are you might get someone that will meet your asking price! (or close to it! I am not too sure about the 800 dollar asking price! half that is probably more likely!)

The BD801S that I sold was perfect in every way (...so that was very helpful when it came to convincing the buyer to pay the full amount!... Tubes were 9R 9G 9B all across!)

Plus obviously there was no shipping to deal with!

Good luck with it

Martin