Mine has clocked about 100 hours. Don't fret about the bulb. Just make sure the room is cool and avoiding frequent on/offs. A new bulb costs about 8-9k, so even if you're bulb pops in a year or two, it isn't such a bad amount to pay given the screen real-estate you're getting vis-a-vis an equivalent LCD or Plasma TV
I run mine at the 'cool' colour temperature setting as that's the closest to 6500K and I've set custom RGB gain/bias settings as mentioned on
www.projectorreviews.com. I love my projector too, I just have minor focusing issues across the entire screen. Focusing is good but not super-crisp all over
Anyhow, I picked mine up from the US too for 650 USD i.e. approximately 35k and it's absolutely worth the price! good luck and Have many happy movie sessions!:clap::thumb: