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So I ended up with a $3000 purchase (this was 2004 and it came with stand) + what I paid for the lamps, and after 4 years and all this money spent I have a non functional TV and a stand. The TV is good until the lamp breaks. I promised to myself: no Toshiba product ever again for me. Cheating on your customers. For me this has happened three times so far, every 14 months in average. The worst is now I just bought the third lamp, paid $200, and the thing (I can't call it a TV) doesn't work.
So happy with Best Buys' warranty and service anyways, they really are excellent with customer service.BUY THE EXTENDED WARRANTY. Go figure.I will check this "low" setting aka read the manual. We did buy some $300+ surge protector thing which they said would be murder on the bulbs if we didn't. Well we love this TV bought in 04 but have gone thru 4 bulbs. This one is totally worth it. THANK THE LORD we bought the extended 4 year warranty giving us 5 years and they said after the 3rd replacement they would now replace the entire TV. 2 bulbs the repairman confessed the last was an off brand 'generic' bulb and didn't hold up so insist on the Toshibas. Our friends have the same Tv bought before we bought ours and have only had to replace one bulb and their TV is on 9am to midnight daily.
We set it low light and turned on about 6 hour/day. I bought Toshiba 62HM84 in May 2005 and already replaced 4 lamps. I will avoid buying Toshiba brand in the future.Toshiba 62HM84 62-Inch HDTV-Ready Projection DLP TV This is the most expensive DLP HDTV unit. I really like the picture quality however the cost to replace the lamp is too expensive. Luckily I bought the extended warranty which covered the lamp replacements.
Thats right both. I just recently ordered two bulbs at once to have a spair. Both dont work. Right out of the box I had a 2 inch black bar across my screen. I'm done with this piece of junk and Toshiba for good. That's not all. After 2 months and refusal to replace the TV Toshiba finally sent a repair man to fix it. I have replaced 3 bulbs at a cost of over $600 so far.
Picture quality is excellent on 720 and 1080, wish it had newer tvs ability to upconvert.Overall I've been very happy with it. I have a 56HMX94 DLP Toshiba, circa 2004.It's used an average of 30-40 hours a week since new. Still original lamp, used on low power and it's never rapidly switched on/off and a/c power is pulled when bad weather is around.I have had some intermittent issues with having to reboot the tv when it once in a while shows half a picture or a pixellated picture.
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