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I bought this around Thanksgiving
before ..(BCS and NFL) finals, primarily for ME (myself)!
(since no one else thought we should spend that much $$$'s for a big screen projector) SOOOooo, I made it a Christmas gift for US (all)!

I have personally used this (during the last 2 years ) about 60 ( YES!! ... sixty) TOTAL hours; and, have walked in the room and seen everyone ELSE using it, CONSTANTLY.
the 2000 hour bulb warning has been indicating for some time now.
(while we (THEY) are approaching 3000 hours by NOW !)
Bulb still going !!! ($90 - $145 replacement cost . . . SOMEDAY!)

I put this with a reasonable sound system and it has.... BEEN WORTH IT!
The family loves it. I am glad.
Providing this (VALUE); QUALITY at this price.

I will BUY this brand again (1080i ) ... when I save up some $$$$ and find a good reason to replace OR give this one away.

I did a lot of research before buying this, and I was very satisfied with my purchase. Its pretty bright, plays 720p movies and games, and has all of the inputs you could ask for, hdmi, vga, composite, component, svideo. It has a reasonable zoom lense, not that great but better than none, and the focus is fine. It does keystoning some too, but that just makes the picture smaller, so I usually just let it be a little awkward angles and get the bigger picture or reposition the projector.

Be warned - replacement bulbs cost upwards of 300 dollars, the cheapest I found so far was 270 for just the bulb and not the whole bulb housing, and its a high pressure mercury vapor lamp or something, which means it could explode in a cloud of mercury vapor if you don't replace the bulb after the 3000 hours. 3000 sounds like a lot, but that's on the extended life (ie not as bright), regular play is only 2000 and so if you use this like a television, playing games and movies and tv on it all the time, you *will* need to replace the bulb. I'm at 2850 right now (always used the regular), and everything is fine, I've read that usually the bulb will go dim before it dies, so when that happens I'll shell out the 300, but 300 is the cost of a regular tv...

Have owned this now for about 2.5 years and love it...
The only issue is (as other reviewers have already alluded to) that if you need to floor/shelf mount it, you will need to at a very low height from the ground. Have placed mine at about 6-10 inches from the ground.. Anyone sitting near the projector is going to feel some heat.. Not much noise. Another issue with this product is that when you remove the shutter over the lens, your focus needs to be adjusted all over again.. Pretty simple to do so, but dont see why Mitsubishi didnt think of this..
As regards quality of image - its great, the blacks could have been darker, but am very happy with it. Brightness is quite good, and degradation precluding viewing occurs only with a lot of ambient light.

How do BluRay DVDs look on this Projector?
I have this Projector and Lost the Users Manuel.
I've been trying to find it online, But, no luck so far.
Any help would be Appreciated.

Thanks Again Vic

My first Home Theater projector was an InFocus IN72, which I loved, but was only 480p. So I sold it and in August 2008 I bought the Mitsubishi HC1500, which is 720p (native resolution of 1280x720). What can I say? Some of my friends keep asking me "when are you going to show that movie?"... Some of them were more than happy to watch the image produced by my old projector, and simply LOVE the image produced by the Mitsu.

Everything else has already been said. Just enjoy it.
8 months have passed and I have yet to find another affordable unit that is this good. At $792 including taxes and shipping to Brooklyn, this was a unique opportunity.