The only bad thing about DLP is the bearing for the colour wheel. I remember a Samsung losing a bearing -- it was ugly. If you buy a projector, LCD projection or DLP, buy an extended warranty.

 

Also, DLP suffers from a rainbow effect when your eyes shift across the screen. This is very annoying to me. The above Consumer Reports chart seems suspect to me as the sound quality portion of each TV got really high marks.......

 

I don't think their standards on sound quality are as high as ours are ...

 

I haven't been sold on the LCD projection yet, the refresh rate for my eyes still isn't there and on high movement sceens like sports. I do like the DLP but they haven't been around long enough to sell me on the durability and longevity of the colour wheel...

So I went with good old fashioned CRT Projection and works for me.

 

I HAVE A DEAL FOR YOU... I WON A 42 INCH PLASMA TV!!!its an lg , ru42px11, and im trying to sell it for 2500.00, its non high def, but still looks amazing. its still brand new in the box, so let me know if you are interested!

 

and as for johnvrooms comments on the "finite" life of the plasmas, do some research buddy...60000 hours to half brightness, or maybe,20 years, thats as finite as every other product out there! [img]graemlins/banghead.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/banghead.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/banghead.gif[/img]

 

That's THEORETICAL ... Also, you might want to do some research on the reliability of Plasma TVs since their introduction ... I've heard of quite a few failing, including my uncle's which lasted about 1.5 years ...

 

Wow thanks for all the input guys,its good to hear some on hands opinions instead of what a salesman is told to sell and how to sell it.This is helping my choice out huge!