My 3rd bulb had 4720 hrs on it ad it seemed very dim. I purchased a new bulb from pureland. It arived at my house today and I installed it. The picture looks 10x brighter but the projector is puting off a burning smell now. I don;t recall this on the prvious 3 bulbs I installed. I did clean the air filter and reset the lamp hour meter. Is this normal and will the smell go away? or is a sign of a bad bulb or problem with the projector?

Look at my earlier post. It turned out to be a power supply problem. The difficult job was finding a repair shop to fix it. I would send it to Panasonic but the cost my not be worth it.

I have a Panasonic AE700 projector and a 92" 16:9 Fixed frame screen with a 3" black velvet frame. When it comes time to zoom and shift the picture onto the screen, I set the Projector to Cable input with a HD program. I try many chanels but I can't the picture to fit the screen perfect. I end up filling the screen 100% verticaly and the picture flows onto the frame 1" on each side. This is ok b/c the velvet hides the picture. As I change sources from Blu ray to Wii etc, the picture fills the screen different each time. Wii for instance, leaves 2" of un-used screen top and bottom and 3" on the sides. Even different HD channels fill the screen differently. This does not happen on Projection, LCD, or Plasma displays. Simple question WHY?