Hi Mark,
My Samsung DLP is still on the original bulb, which amazes me, although a friend of mine used to work in the quality-control lab for Samsung, and he told me that my generation of DLPs was spec'd at 5,000 to 8,000 hours of bulb life if you ran it in Cinema mode most of the time, which I do.
Another friend bought a "Sammie" DLP a year later than mine but he watches a huge amount of TV series and had to replace his bulb a year ago.
Mine was the generation of Sams to have an HDMI and a DVI input.
When I saw Worf's question, it didn't click for a minute that he had a front projector then I saw the model number of the Pannie. Front projector bulbs have a much shorter life because they have to "throw" an image across a room rather than a foot or two like a rear-projector. So the front projector bulbs run much brighter and hotter and don't last as long.
Regards,
Alan
