Rick,
Seeing the rainbow effects of a spinning color wheel in a single-chip DLP projector is not age-related and ClubNeon exaggerates (not for him) this aspect of DLP designs. The vast majority of viewers never see rainbow effects; millions of DLP sets have been sold.
I had to "teach" myself how to see them (I won't tell you how. . .) and I know of only one case (an Axiom customer whose wife was highly sensitive to rainbow effects) where a DLP set had to be returned.
Samsung also introduced a series of DLP sets that used sequentially firing LEDs (red, green, blue) that eliminated the color wheel. In that demo, I found it impossible to see any rainbow effects in the LED-driven Samsung light engine sets.
I'd concede with others here that the best LCD front projectors are now on a par with DLP so long as the color values don't shift with age. I have seen no reliable data that that occurs, only a biased DLP industry report that suggested it might occur over the long term with LCD front projectors.
Regards,
Alan
