We're at a point now, however, where there have been some compromises as well as some ingenious solutions. And they didn't come from the lamp manufacturers, either. No, the projector manufacturers got smart and have come up with:
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As to the price of the lamps, well, you're really out of luck there. You will spend between $375 and (on the 10,000 lumen projectors) up to $5,000. As an average, though, the vast majority of lamps will cost $500. It's that old supply-and-demand thing.
As a side note, Philips had a lamp factory burn to the ground a couple of years ago and it caused a real shortage for several manufacturers' products. Ushio, in particular, really stepped up their production and broadened their lamp "family" to become the second largest lamp manufacturer in the world (behind GE, and that includes light bulbs, too). The lesson here is to stock up on at least one spare lamp for every two projectors you own (assuming identical projectors).
Finally, please, please don't call them bulbs. They're lamps. Really. Lamps.
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