I got this projector from a friend. I've been trying to fix it but haven't been successful. Basically it was working fine then suddenly there was this shadow on the screen (shown below). Is my bulb bad? Image Link: http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z14/nmascarenhas/?action=view¤t=DSC03556.jpg

I Purchased a Dell 3300MP projector in hopes of using at our church for presentations and other studies in conjuntion with our PC. However, I had hoped to use the DVI connection as I thought it would give us the best quality picture. I have tried connecting two differeent PCs using the DVI to M1 connection but continue to get the message no signal on the LCD display of the 3300. The s-video works but the picture is not that crisp and the Component to M1 works from a DVD player just fine. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated. lheck77

I just bought a Dell 3300MP and it works great. The person i bought it from didn't have the M1 cable with it. So i bought a M1 cable on eBay. The cable has M1, S-video and composite inputs on the one side and Components (RGB), s-Video and Composit (yellow) on the output with 33ft cable in between. Great cable, how ever once i plugged this into my COX HDTV box i had some problems. The Digital/Analog channels work fine. But once i hit the HDTV channels the display does a quick blur and goes black. (sound still there) NOTE Before the HDTV cable i just had the composite (yellow) plugged in and i could see the channels, not in HD but i know i have these channels turned on, if that was a questions) I have played with the out put of the HDTV box and it was originally set at 1080i. Tried all the other formats and NO luck. I am new to HDTV and might be missing a crucial step somewhere. Is it the Cable, Projector or HDTV box? Any suggestions would be great... Thank you.