World-wide shortage of projector bulbs

[KraGorn]

There's an interesting thread over on AVS in which a chap posted a comment, backed up by others, which says that there's a world-wide shortage of bulbs for projectors due to massive over-demand and lack of supply from Phillips.

Wonder if this explains some of the shortages of machines I've found when enquiring about availability?

 

[LV426]

Sounds like Philips normal behaviour. Never were any good at spares, even for their own stuff.