Sony VPL-HW10 Owners AND Calibration Thread - Page 26

Seems our HW10 is getting close to needing a new bulb, (now the Replace Lamp warning came on with 2,640 hours on the bulb).

I have ordered the replacement lamp LMPH201 through our original vendor, _ _ _.

How long could it be safe to leave the original lamp in after the Replace Lamp warning comes on? ( I ran the original bulb to 3,000 hours)

Sony recommends immediately it seems, could it cause damage? The picture is still quite watchable, I have gone to the High lamp setting (Actually toggled between high / low, left it mostly in low).

Thanks,

Needing another lamp and was wondering about the various OEM replacement lamps. Are they just as good? Do they last as long and give out the light as regular Sony replacements?

Still with this thing?
Me too, though I'm avaricious.

Take the measurements. Swap the lamp, keep the old one for backup. Take new measurements and post here.

MNHO,
ted

I've had my hw10 for a little more than a year now and the fan is not only a little loud but have now also started making a "clicking" noice which is very annoying. Is it possible to get a hold of a replacement fan and do this myself? I really don't want to send it and then have to wait for weeks. Probably no warranty either.

We had the clicking noise early on, seemed to go away after warmup. If you are under warranty, have them check it.

I opened our VW10 and found there are 3 cooling fans, the one in the middle was the culprit, The additional information could damage your projector, burn you or cause death. I carefully removed, "reset" the mount sort of, squeezed the rubberized motor mounts together, reinstalled while open and tested, it solved the issue.

I had my machine for 1 year and 2 months, so I called Sony and the support guy said that it was out of warranty and immidiately suggested that I should open it and make sure the fan was not loose. He was so quick to tell me that and it sounded like I wasn't the first one calling about this.
Anyway I opened it and looked around. I also found 3 fans and by listening to the clicking noise I also came to the conclusion that it was the middle fan that was the cause of this. I didn't dare to try to get to that fan though.
After a couple of days, I called the store where I had bought the projector. They said that on Sony projectors they give customers 2 years warranty. So I got a shipping slip and sent the projector in, free of charge. It's now being serviced.

Lesson learned, call the store.

The reason I didn't is that with my previous projectors, the manufacturer handled warranty themselves.

Hi to those of you who dared to open your projector up.

I am the owner of two HW15s and am using Dolby3d filters to do 3D stereo.

I assume the layout of HW15 is not very different from HW10.

At present the filters are outside the projectors, over the lens, but I had a thinking that they would better be inserted inside the projector, between the lamp and the SXRD panels, as Dolby/infitec do.

When I opened one up, I found that the whole beam path is enclosed in a somewhat plastic case that seems very difficult to open (if you dont want to break anything).


What I want is to open the plastic case to expose the fresnel/condenser lens assembly. Has anybody ever gone that far?

Jack

Hello,

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Hello,

I have a couple of questions for people on the forum - I'm not sure if anyone will be able to help me, but I would greatly appreciate your assistance.

Recently our VPL-10W recently began to display the replace lamp/ clean filter message. I failed to take the warning seriously and delayed getting a new lamp.

Last week when I went to turn on the projecter it came up with the normal "starting" message then quickly flashed "HDMI 1" then cut out. Whatever I tried I couldn't get working. Then the next day magically it just started working again and did so for about a week.

The problem the started again a few days ago and I can't fix it.

I've been told the problem is most likely that the hours on the bulb have elapsed.

However I am in Australia and despite contacting a number of outlets- it seems it will be a couple of weeks before I can get a new one.

I would really like to be able to use the projector in the mean time.

I was advised to reset the hours on the projecter, but this isn't possible as the menu won't come up when its starting and as soon as its started it turns off.

I've also tried taking the lamp out and putting it back in but that does nothing.

Do I have any other options?

Many Thanks

Any good suggestions for where to buy a replacement lamp? I have been thinking about ordering one to have on hand, and see a wide range of prices. I'm thinking it's best to use the OEM bulb rather than some "OEM Equivalent" bulbs that I have seen.

Call one of the AVS guys, they usually have good prices.

Thanks for the advice on the lamp. I didn't realize you were so close by. Kinda funny since it was this thread and some of your postings that convinced me to buy the VPL-HW10 in the first place. I really like this projector; upgraded from a VPL-HS60.

I recently purchased a 2nd hand HW10 with 640 hours on the lamp.

Generally, I'm very impressed.
The build, lens, shift knobs, menu system, signal switching speed, remote... all excellent.

I've come from a long line of DLPs, and do miss that superior ANSI contrast, razor-sharpness and fast motion refresh, but the Sony is still very good.

I've got a couple of questions if anyone would be kind enough to answer:
(and yes - I've already read through the threads)

1. What are the best settings for absolute deepest black level and highest possible contrast (while still remaining fairly accurate)?

2. I'm finding that the black level and gamma seem to change from one blu-ray to the next, forcing me to ride the Black Detail and Gamma settings each time.
I've never had to do this before.
Using a PS3 for playback and am wondering if the PS3s display settings are partly to blame...

Thanks in advance!

Being NYE, we have a party planned. The VPL-HW10 has been working well the last few years, low usage with lamp hours under 500 hours.

Now, all of a sudden, with NOTHING changed, all I get is a green screen when using HDMI or VGA inputs.

In trying to diagnose it...

1. I have tried different hdmi cables & input (HDMI1&2 same thing)

2. The screen goes to blue (no input) if the source is switched on. If the source is sending a signal, it goes green.

3. When green, the menu display etc still works fine

4. Component input works perfectly fine

PLEASE! Someone tell me what is wrong!

All fixed! Often it is the simple things!

I had tried so many sources and cables. Tried to find a way of factory reset. Went into the service menu. Searched all over the internet. Asked an expert technician. And just as I was about to fork out $900 for a new board repair...

I unplugged the projector for 5 minutes and the plugged it back in - it works!

DOH!

Hi,

I purchased my HW10 in March 2009, it is running the second lamp now (600 hours currently). Last week, I finally got hands on a Spyder4Pro, and happily started calibrating. However, I encountered a huge problem: the measurements for the HW10 are way out of range. For comparison, here is the graph from magnust (page 8 of this thread):

Note that this is the pre-calibration measurement. And here comes mine, same settings:




Have you ever seen such measurements of a HW in cinema preset (default settings) before?

However, my personal visual experience of the image isn't that bad. So I recon it must have something to do with the calibration chain. I used HCFR (Win7x64 in WinXP-SP2 compatibility mode, because otherwise HCFR would crash) and a Spyder4Pro (Argyll drivers).

Any advice?

Thanks,
Chh

Hi there,

as a proof-check, I did the measurement again, this time with a DTP94 device.



The dashed lines show the measurement with the Spyder4Pro from my previous post as reference. Unfortunately, the numbers are almost the same
Here are the settings:

Mode Cinema
Contrast 90
Bright 50
Color 50
Hue 50
Gamma Off
Iris Off
Lamp High
Temp Low

To the people in this thread who already measured/calibrated their HW10: Were your pre-calibration numbers as bad as mine?

Hi there,

I did another measurement, only this time I used the DTP94 in conjunction with dispcal-gui instead of HCFR. Here are the results:



While I do not fully understand this graph yet (because I didn't manage to find a proper documentation on the dispcal homepage), I think that the reported values are way better than the ones above from the HCFR software. Perhaps HCFR is somehow wrong configured here.

Well, anyway, I think I will leave my HW10 device as it is. I like the produced picture, and the experiences with different colorimeters and measurement software, respectively, somehow destroyed my trust in this whole open source calibration thingy.


By the way, is there actually anybody left here to read this? Did not get much response to my previous posts, so I feel somewhat left alone here in this precious HW10 thread The heck with it! I learned quite a bit about calibration and I am satisfied with the picture anyway.

Chh

Thanks for your answer bytehoven - I was hoping that you're still around here. However, "success with the project" is a little overstated: Please note that all these measures from my three posts above have been done with the same picture settings, and I did not change anything from the default values yet.

Perhaps I should have posted these issues to the HCFR forum in the first place, rather than this one here, in order to get more advice on how to setup the measurement chain correctly.

I replaced my lamp recently on my VPL-HW10 and I am getting a yellowish smear on the screen. It looks smeared because in some parts the white comes through and it looks like it is a rubbing smear. Any ideas what could cause this and how to fix?

Hi I bought this pj3 days ago second hand for 500 euro and jesus guys where is the black level . Really this pj is worse than my sanyo z700 , iam glad that I didn't pay for it full money its not worth almost 2k euro
Edited by anxion - 4/24/13 at 1:27am

very disappointment

Pls check this photo ala- good Black Levels, and I have grey screen as well , so thats very strange , my sanyo z700 fo 1k euro had better black

Edited by anxion - 4/23/13 at 4:04pm