I own a SP-710ae and agree that it does look impressive even today however a few things to keep in mind..
That projector originally had an MSRP of about $10,000 and had some rather high end components built into it for the time.
The product line was tweaked by Joe Kane so as to almost guarantee that the colors would be near perfect straight from the box. In essence these units were calibrated at the factory.
There were many, many problems with production of these units, much of which seemed to be related to the ballast which caused the line to develop a reputation for being defective.
Interestingly enough, I discovered that the power/ballast issues my own unit seemed to evidence were in fact caused by "dirty" electric power in my home. The addition of a decent power conditioner solved all my problems. So my guess is that many of these problems may have been due to similarly sensitive components in the SP-710ae's and might have been able to be resolved with such an addition as well.
That projector originally had an MSRP of about $10,000 and had some rather high end components built into it for the time.
The product line was tweaked by Joe Kane so as to almost guarantee that the colors would be near perfect straight from the box. In essence these units were calibrated at the factory.
There were many, many problems with production of these units, much of which seemed to be related to the ballast which caused the line to develop a reputation for being defective.
Interestingly enough, I discovered that the power/ballast issues my own unit seemed to evidence were in fact caused by "dirty" electric power in my home. The addition of a decent power conditioner solved all my problems. So my guess is that many of these problems may have been due to similarly sensitive components in the SP-710ae's and might have been able to be resolved with such an addition as well.
