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01-12-2002, 1:21 AM
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Thanks: Gave 272, Got 303 | Who has/ordered a PTAE-300?
So do you have one? Are you happy with it?
Give us your own rundown in detail..... 
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01-12-2002, 12:32 PM
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had a feeling there would be more "chickens" out there 
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01-12-2002, 12:38 PM
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Thanks: Gave 2, Got 25 | "bah! My portable tele is fine thanks"
Or more like, "bah! My Barco D600 PJ is fine thanks"
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01-12-2002, 12:39 PM
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Thanks: Gave 272, Got 303 | Quote: Originally posted by ReTrO
Or more like, "bah! My Barco D600 PJ is fine thanks" [/B]
| ahh there's always one....
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01-12-2002, 1:07 PM
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Thanks: Gave 5, Got 32 | Quote: Originally posted by Smurfin
ahh there's always one isn't it? | Says it all m8 
Haven't ordered an AE-300 & won't be
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01-12-2002, 2:45 PM
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I'll make do with my AE100
Think I will go for the AE600 in 2004 with 1200 contrast and Liquid cooling
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02-12-2002, 1:46 AM
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I haven't and won't be .
I too will make do with my AE100, as soon as it comes back ~(safely) from its little trip to the house of Lazarus (resurrections from red led of death our speciality) 
And there was me itching to upgrade - not to another Panny methinks.
Now, CRT, there's an idea..........
Sean G.
PS Bring back that AE100 Stickey !!!!!
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07-12-2002, 9:40 PM
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AE300 ordered (finally) - departed DHL Tokyo 2.13 am GMT...
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07-12-2002, 9:41 PM
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Good luck
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08-12-2002, 11:39 PM
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I've got an AE300 and absolutely love it. When you receive yours, do the following:
1. Throw away the supplied component cables and get a decent set of high quality ones. It makes a big diference to the sharpness and black levels of the picture.
2. Go into the service menu (hold down the [enter] key for 3secs+ on the Options->OSD menu option) and adjust the flicker on all of the R,G,B panels so that the screen doesn't flicker on any of those panels.
Once you have completed the above, you will have an absolutely awsome picture with great color, NO screendoor (and I mean NONE), great blacks and excellent shadow details. If you really want to go even further you can use AVIA to adjust some more.
Having said all of the above, my pj is going back to Japan for replacement at the end of the week due to a convergance (?) problem on the left side of the screen (I can see horizontal red lines betw the pixels).
This is one GREAT projector for the price (I've had an AE100 and TW100 previously)... 
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09-12-2002, 6:55 AM
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Thanks Xander.
I'll be driving the AE300 from a PC with DVI-out, but may end up using Component to connect directly to Tivo. I'll bear your tips in mind!
Mike
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09-12-2002, 7:12 AM
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Mike, it will be interesting to see how you get on with driving it via DVI since nobody has been able to get perfect 1:1 pixel mapping on it yet either via VGA or DVI ( afaik).
Regards
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10-12-2002, 12:15 AM
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AE300 arrived, first impressions are excellent. No time yet for tweaking - just temporarily mounted using a camera tripod, pointed at a peach coloured wall and connected using the supplied composite cable to a DVD source. Not ideal, but I guess I'm easily impressed!
No dead/stuck pixels as far as I can tell, and all packaging arrived undamaged. I paid £60 extra for PriceJapan's new 'return shipping' insurance, so I hope if there is a problem that it shows up within the next 30 days...
I'll post more details when I have time to get the PJ ceiling mounted and experiment properly.
For the benefit of any future AE300 buyer with the same sense of apprehension that I had, yes it does say '100V 2.2A' on the underside of the unit, and no it doesn't go 'pzzzzt' when you connect it to a UK 240V supply.
Edit: Errr... you might want to check the update later in this thread).
Thanks to Julia, Xander, Fulabeer and others for the valuable information - so far, I'm well chuffed.
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10-12-2002, 8:18 AM
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Congratulations Mike on your new purchase!
I've got mine back yesterday as well. No dead pixels!
I guess I'm very happy now that I've sent it back....
Julia
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04-01-2003, 2:14 AM
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For the benefit of any future AE300 buyer with the same sense of apprehension that I had, yes it does say '100V 2.2A' on the underside of the unit, and no it doesn't go 'pzzzzt' when you connect it to a UK 240V supply.
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Check that.... it just died at 60ish hrs...
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