I own a Sanyo PLV Z2000. I bought it about 3 or 4 years ago. reason I bought it was the price was good, and the ability to hide it in the corner and it still throws the image w/o keystoning or screwing up the picture. I have had to replace the bulb only one time so far for $200 or so.

I agree that they are a bit spendy to maintain with new bulbs, but its worth every penny for a home theater. I play movies, Xbox and PS3 on it. I do have a computer hooked up to watch netflix movies off of it as well. However I would not recommend a projector to be used on the number of hours spent using it.

When I first set up the projector, I did everything on it even box wow. Now however, I use it 90% to just watch movies and shows and a little bit of console gameing. Its not worth the price of bulbs to put 40h a week playing games on it. But its worth it once a week or so to party with drunken Rock Band on it!