Except you three eyed monster owners, who may now take a short moment to gloat.
A coworker spoke to a contact at Ushio at the recent LDI convention in Las Vegas (stage and theatrical lighting products trade show) about the previously discussed UHP lamp shortage. He indicated this issue is growing in severity, is projected to get worse through the next two years, and has reached a dire enough level that some of their lower tier manufacturer clients are being told they may not receive lamps for new shipping product.
Guess where in the scheme of things that puts individual users looking for a replacement lamp for the PJ/RPTV?
There is an outfit that is selling a relamp service wherein they take your old lamp assembly, replace the bulb and realign it to factory specs and return it you you for about 50% of a new lamp's price ticket. Turnaround so far for the few who have posted about it seems to be 2-3 weeks and results good. I'll post back here later when I have looked it up. They do not d all types, but are adding to their list as time goes by. I know of one person who has had success with the same PJ as me (20HD/PLV70).
Anyway, if you are not able to suffer without your PJ while waiting a long lead lamp replacement, you might begin checking into getting a backup to hold onto in the meantime.
The other wrinkle is there are allegedly some Chinese companies looking into this situation as a an opportunity, but don't hold your breath for that as a near term solution.
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A coworker spoke to a contact at Ushio at the recent LDI convention in Las Vegas (stage and theatrical lighting products trade show) about the previously discussed UHP lamp shortage. He indicated this issue is growing in severity, is projected to get worse through the next two years, and has reached a dire enough level that some of their lower tier manufacturer clients are being told they may not receive lamps for new shipping product.
Guess where in the scheme of things that puts individual users looking for a replacement lamp for the PJ/RPTV?
There is an outfit that is selling a relamp service wherein they take your old lamp assembly, replace the bulb and realign it to factory specs and return it you you for about 50% of a new lamp's price ticket. Turnaround so far for the few who have posted about it seems to be 2-3 weeks and results good. I'll post back here later when I have looked it up. They do not d all types, but are adding to their list as time goes by. I know of one person who has had success with the same PJ as me (20HD/PLV70).
Anyway, if you are not able to suffer without your PJ while waiting a long lead lamp replacement, you might begin checking into getting a backup to hold onto in the meantime.
The other wrinkle is there are allegedly some Chinese companies looking into this situation as a an opportunity, but don't hold your breath for that as a near term solution.
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