About to purchase a new projector...

The better choice would be the pro8200.

I don't think either of them do 24p, but output at 60 hz.

The room is pretty small, not sure you'll get a 120" screen, but there are calculators that will tell you.

The pro8200 is still a very bright projector that throws a very nice picture and is bright enough to use with some light in the room.

It also has a longer rated bulb life (6000 hrs in eco mode).

The projector syncs a 1080p signal at 60 hz. It will not sync to 24 fps that my bd player will output.

I've never hooked it up to a computer, but it syncs to a 1080i satellite receiver at 30 hz vertical refresh. The 1080p bd player syncs at 60 Hz.

When I've tried to activate the 24 fps setting on the bd player, the option is grayed out.

I would suspect it will sync to the computer at 60 hz.

Sorry, bd is a blu ray player.

As to the bulbs, Coderguy has 3,000 hours on his and the light output has fallen to about half. Which is what the bulbs do-- get dimmer over time. Will he get to 6000 hours? Probably not.

If the usable life of a bulb is 4-5000 hours, that would comparable to 8 hours a day for a year and a half, or 4 hours a day for 3 years or a movie a day for 6 years. Not bad.

I think the bulbs cost around $250.

http://www.viewsonic.com/us/pro8200-pro8200.html
look at the specs , it does 60hz.

you can use this PJ on PAL and USA .



Computer and Video
NTSC M (3.58 MHz), 4.43MHz, PAL (B, D, G, H, I, M, N, 60), SECAM (B, D, G, K, K1, L), SD 480i and 576i, ED 480p and 576p, HD 720p, 1080i and 1080p
Frequency
Fh: 30-100KHz, Fv: 50-85Hz

As to what some person wrote on amazon, take it with a grain of salt, about what he wrote that this PJ only doing 24 hz, HE WAS WRONG, and bse53 is right , if you look at specs and going from bse53's actual user experience. Also, look at the 7 comments to what that guy on amazon wrote. They were saying he was wrong. if someone gives wrong info on amazon user review, generally someone straightens them out.

Lots of us use it for watching tv stuff and PC stuff and it works like HDTV.

Now for 3d stuff you need 120 hz. This pro8200 doesn't do 3d. Standard regular pc and tv formats for usa and PAL.
Edited by rgtaa - 11/6/12 at 9:26pm

The other thing with getting 6,000 hours on bulb is it has to be in ECO mode. Coderguy never said he was using eco mode all the time.
The pro8200 is listed as 4,000 to 6,000 hours. So if you use it in regular mode you can get 4,000 hours before it gets too dim.

It becomes a little tricky with the pro8200, because if you switch modes, going from standard to user 1 and dark room etc, it auto switches to regular mode if you are not checking. So if you want long bulb life, keep checking to make sure it's in eco mode.

So if you watch 4 hours at a sitting you get 4 years viewing with bulb. But if you only watch 2 or 3 times a week 4 hours a sitting you get 8-12 years on bulb. Over 1,500 days of viewing at 4 hours a day in theory in eco mode. Coderguy told us he sometimes leaves it on all day , and one time left it on 3 days all the time. Which is good news, the pro8200 keeps on ticking.
3 cents per hour.
I have seen prices around 200 hundred dollars for new bulb. With my hdtv's if they go bad I will just dump it, at least with the pj I can pick up a new bulb, and 4 years or 8 years in tech is a long time. Taking us to 2020.
Unless you are Coderguy who does 3,000 hours in a little over a year and uses it like a hdtv. He is our hours on PJ master on the pro8200. Nobody is close to him on hours yet.

yes, get it. it will work great. you just missed a sale a few days ago it was 680, so you could wait for the next one. or order before coderguy shows up talking about pixel mapping or you will never decide