Hey Gang, here's a quick question. I have a 92" fixed screen that I have mounted in my basement, because I have a window on the same wall(I will put blackout on it) the top of screen is about 28" from the ceiling. I have combed a ton of forums, and some people are dead set against doing the verticle lense shift thing...I was going to drop my PJ so lens is 16" from the ceiling then let the lens shift do the rest...should I lower the PJ more??...anyones thoughts much appreciated. thanks Earle

Does anyone know anything about replacing the fan in this unit? I think the bearings are going out on ours (grinding noise) - can I just use a regular PC fan of the proper size? Panasonic does not list a fan part number/description on their website. Thanks.

When is a projector bulb bad? I've got a Panasonic PT-AE1000U. Lamp technically has 1,250 hours on it, but may of these were for a blank-screen (no input) due to a family member not turning all components off. I thought my projector suffered from the dreaded Panasonic lost-picture disease. (The iris or something doesn't stay open after about 1-5 minutes of projection... flashing yellow power light. Need to hard reset... used to fix it.) Anyway, I did the common fix to lubricate the iris - still has the problem. At times I will see the light intensity on the screen drop just a touch for a brief second. All in - could this actually be the lamp? (as panasonic said it was?) I mean, if the lamp lights - does that mean it's still good, or, could cause problems? Thanks