[jbalicki10]

Hello, I am working on getting my 1st projector. I have several stores in my area: Best Buy, Circuit City, Grant's, Fry's, Tiger Direct that carry projectors. The problem is that at all these places I am not able to see there projectors at work. Do these people frown upon buying and returning projectors if I don't like how they work out? How do you guys see these projectors? Everywhere I go, they just a crappy display if they even have one. A grand is a hard thing to spend on something that is sigh unseen.

 

[gfireboy22]

I bought from Tiger Direct off the internet. I suggest you buy off the internet too. Stores are more likely to sell at retail. I bought the Benq PB 6200, and I am extremely thrilled with it. However, with the money you want to spend you will get the rainbow effect. I've got it, and am ajusting to it now. During scenes with high blacks or flashing whites on blacks, you will see small images that look like the spectrum of liht flash before your eyes at high speed. Once you know that they are real, they seem to become easier to ignore. I might suggest an LCD projector for you to avoid this. They too have problems. Bottom line, for your budget the Benq PB6200 will amaze you. If you have more money, then stay away from these DLP's with the 1 chip and the color wheel. Not to mention, $1000 is peanuts, and you get what you pay for.

 

[TheFerret]

Money has nothing to do with brain's saccadic masking, which varys from one person to the next. Some bought relatively inexpensive (for the time) 2X color-wheel DLP projectors and didn't see a thing, which others after a couple of years caught rainbows for the first time on a rather expensive DLP projector.


I do not know where you got the idea that its money-based, but its not. I see the RGB separation on 1xDMD DLP projectors regardless of price.

 

[jbalicki10]

Thank you for your comments! The tiger direct is right by my house. It's the actual warehouse. I really wanted to test out the projectors to see if they are good in my enviroment. I would hate returning something I bought from the internet. The projectors that I was considering was: Espon S1 and Infocus X1a. I would have loved to have seen the Sanyo Z1, but nobody around here carries it. I will check out that Infocus you suggested!!!


Thanks

John

 

[TheFerret]

John, are there no brick & mortar shops around for you to have a look? Some find it easy to track down a projector owner and demo in their home. Are you not geographically available to a large population?

 

[c4v3man]

definitely try to find someone with those projectors. buying with no intentions of keeping one is morally wrong. check local business suppliers to see if you can rent one.

 

[TheFerret]

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Originally posted by c4v3man definitely try to find someone with those projectors. buying with no intentions of keeping one is morally wrong. check local business suppliers to see if you can rent one.

I do not think the person intended to buy & return for the hell of it, but rather if he bought it and wasn't satisfied, which is why so many b&m chain outlets (BB, CC, HFB, etc.) have 100% satisfaction guarantees with their return policies. Only when the issue becomes academic do they amends their policies.


I bought the X1 a little more than a year ago. I could have gotten it online, but the return aspect was a major concern (i.e. restocking fees). As such, I bought from someone with said satisfaction guarantee and, as it were, used it to return it (rainbows were atrocious for me).

 

[jbalicki10]

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I bought the X1 a little more than a year ago. I could have gotten it online, but the return aspect was a major concern (i.e. restocking fees). As such, I bought from someone with said satisfaction guarantee and, as it were, used it to return it (rainbows were atrocious for me).

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That's exactly what I was worried about. Plus I really dont know anyone with a projector. It's hard to take a leap of faith. I have full intention to keep the projector if I like it.

 

[noah katz]

Is there a Costco near you? They have the best return policy of anyone - no time limit.


They carry the 4805, Pan 500, and some Optoma's (models listed online are different than carried in stores).

 

[Bob Barlen]

When I bought my 6100 at Future Shop (in Canada) the salesman told me that they wouldn't accept a return if there was more than 1 hour on the bulb. I objected, since I figured it would take more than an hour just to calibrate the projector. He said at the very minimum, they'd charge a 10% restockign fee.


I ended up keeping it, but just a heads-up about returns at B&M stores. Now, whether they actually would have checked or not when I returned it is another story. At least part of me is convinced that they wouldn't actually go to the trouble of plugging it in, connecting a source, and projecting it in a dark room, but who knows.


Bob

 

[lifeisfun]

It would be simple as lamp hour counter reset

before the return