Good projectors, with a good
image (as long as they were properly maintained). Biggest concern that I would have is making sure that DPI will still be able to maintain them. They don't allow for many outside vendors to service their units and some of these units are discontinued and will be difficult to maintain.
Also, with DPI, when it comes to relamping the lamp modules for those projectors, they do not
stock the bare lamp (as of about six months ago when I had to deal with them), they order the lamp at the time you do your RMA. This can extend the time for relamping to about two months.
The good thing is that I don't see TI discontinuing the SXGA+ chipset any time soon. If you were looking at an older SXGA
projector, I'd advise you avoid like the plague since you wouldn't be able to replace the DMD should it fail.
I do like the stacking cages on those units since it also includes
yaw along with the vertical positioning. Also, the
lens has memory sets so that you can program
zoom, focus, and
shift for multiple positions.
I do want to stress again that you should verify service availability before you
purchase and make sure that the relamp costs will not be outside of your budget (they only allow six lampings of a module before you will also have to replace the
reflector in the module, so you would want to find out how many relamps have been done on those modules as well).
