You can look forward to the optoma hd27 which is the newer version of hd26 that i own. Overall it is a very good projector and value for money and is currently retailing for 599$ on the US store.
not sure about the current landing price, but if you can manage to get a projector from Amazon.com or amazon.de and some one brings it for you from US/Germany, it would be within 40K. And within that price AFAIK, Epson makes LCD, others are DLP projector.
Recently I bought one (EPSON TW5210) from amazon.de and total cost, including shipping + import fees was 49K.
You can read about my hunt for projector and the whole setup