The DMD is good for some number of years. There was a few models it failed early and Samsung covered those. Even Ti (maker of the DMD) limited their coverage to 5 years. The model you noted looks like from 2008 so along with bulbs, one of the parts that fail.
Bob
I had white spots on my HL72A650 PEOJECTION T.Vit cost me over 400.00dollars to repair. the repairman,Toid me their was A recall on this problem .I never receive any in formation on this recall from samsung ,or from Conns.Where I bought the t.v.Is there any way too get rein bursed for the re pair?

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