I recently bought a replacement lamp for my Sanyo Z2000. The bulb I received was for a Sanyo Z3000. When I called the company, the said they were out of stock on my bulb and sent me a bulb for Z3000 and said it would work. They called it a "crossver bulb" and said it is the same. The bulb number I was sent is #610 344 5120 POA-LMP135 Which is for a Z3000. They refuse to return it without a 25% restocking fee and shipping cost, even though my receipt shows that I ordred the right bulb. Are they right? Will the Z3000 bulb work in my Z2000? Or have I been scammed? I don't want to damage my projector by using the wrong bulb. Please Help!! Thanks

[QUOTE=Stockmond|Nov 7, 2008 2:16:19 PM] Hi! I recently bought the PLV-Z2000. But very quickly I noticed something wasn't right. The dark scenes, and shadows where completely or next to black. So it was virtually impossible to see anything but glimpses of light streakes here and there. I am connecting my laptop like this: Laptop -> DVI-2-HDMI-adapter -> HDMI-cable -> Projector. This is my troubleshooting thus far: * I tried switching to VGA-cable, and the dark parts of the image turns out much better! * I connected a small Full-HD video camera over Component Video, and the image was extremely good (in my opinion). * I connected another computer (MacBook Pro), also with: dvi-hdmi like above, and the result was just as bad with this computer. My Conclusion: There is something wrong with the projector when it comes to handling the signal through it's HDMI port, causing the loss, or incorrect display, of darker nuances. Alternative conclusion: The only other thing I can think of that I haven't ruled out yet, is that it is the DVI-2-HDMI adapter that causes the loss. But I find this quite unlikely. PLEASE, can anyone comment on this? Has anyone had similar problems? Ideas of what the causes can be, or do you agree with above? /M [/QUOTE] Hi, Have you solved your problem ? I have exactly the same issue with my Z2000 and macbook pro. Thenks for your help, Akira

You will see NO difference regardless of how you set the color depth because the DVD and Blu-ray standards do not support deep color. After I installed my new Sanyo PLV-Z2000 I wondered why the "deep color" field on the projector's information screen always showed "---" instead of "12 bits" or such as shown in the owners manual. "It must be the cable" I reasoned. I purchased a 6' cat2 HDMI cable to connect the projector directly to the blu-ray player; still no deep color bits showing. I called Sanyo tech support. They had no answer and said they would get back to me. They never did. After a bunch of research I discovered that both the DVD and Blu-ray standards only support 24 bit color, and it is extremely unlikley that the standards will ever change as there is no way to make a greater color depth backward compatible. Deep color, anything beyond 24 bits per pixel, can only be displayed from home shot video using a camera that supports it. It is not possible from commercially produced DVDs or Blu-ray. If you are projecting from a computer, you can set the color depth to whatever you want but you're not going to get bits that aren't there.