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After 8000 hours a CRT will have permanently lost much of it's brightness and will be near the end of it's usable life.


My CRT projector is coming up on 6 years old, and I don't think it's anywhere near the end of its life. It still looks fantastic.

8000 hours is pretty good for a bulb, though. My friend Tod had to replace a bulb in his Sony projector after less than a year of ownership. And because of supply problems with the bulb, he was without a television for something like two months.

I'm just saying, be careful about bulbs, that's all.
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Tony Fabris