Sony XEL-1 estimated to last customers only half as long as expected {Engadget HD}

May 8th 2008 3:24PM DUH!

You can not extrapolate the full life from the initial unit luminance decrease.
Anyone who has bother to do the same tests with DLP will tell you that.

On a dlp projector you can lose 10% in 24 hours of use. They don't die in a month.

It's the 1000-2000 hour mark that I'd be interested in. I'm also curious if they were running the panel at %100 percent brightness or not.


Display search is firm devoted mostly to LCD manufacturers and customers. They really should know better. They have poor methods like this and then charge 10-15k to meet with their analysts.