Contact a corporate-type audio-visual firm in your area that sets up board rooms, conference rooms etc. THey have demo units that they replace on a regular basis and you may be able to purchase one of the units they are retiring for a decent discount.
NOVICE would like advice
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am new to the video projection market, and am looking for the best bang for my buck. I would like to purchase a digital video projector - or something similar (i don't really know the difference, in terms of quality, or really functional compatability between a "crt" and a "dlp") I am not a wealthy man - just a social character who likes to project films at parties and show films on sundays to 20-30 cinema fanatics on sundays over dinner - currently i am getting whats left at the public library - and showing 16mm - changing reels - and that's fun - but you can see only so many odd public service films from the 50's and 60's before you long for a good Akira Kurasawa Samurai Shakespeare Extravaganza - and the television is hard to crowd around i live in a loft, so i feel obligated to assist in the betterment of my friend's social lives (and implicitly romantic lives) - and so far we have finagled some lucky finds - but i would really like to find a source - the deal of the century - practically charity really - if any of you have advice on where to get decent video projectors for cheap cheap i would appreciate it - i don't have much of a budget - i know that this whole thing is probably a pipe dream - but if any of you tech-smarties could hook me up with some information, put me in the know - i would be deeply grateful Thanks for your time.