[mythtv-users] OT - Life without MythTV

[Ronald Frazier]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Bill Omer <bill.omer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  sounds like the lamp hours are maxxed, your lucky you got 4 years. most
>  >  are rated about 6k hours, about 8 hours a day on for 2 years.  Id try
>  >  replacing it, $300 bucks is alot cheaper than $3k for a new 56 incher.
>
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>  I thought if the lamp was bad, the set would still turn on but you
>  wouldn't get a picture.   Not true?

First, I'm not sure what the quality of LCD panel lamps were 4 years
ago, but these days they should last a LOT longer than 4 years.
Projection LCD and DLP is an entirely different story and is more
inline with your failure time. However, components can fail anytime,
so it's not out of the question.

I imagine it's possible to design the system to turn off if the lamp
doesn't illuminate. For instance, some lights draw a lot of power when
starting up. If they fail to start up successfully, continuously
drawing a ton of power could be bad for the power supply, so they
might give up if it doesn't start in a second or two.

-- 
Ron