New Giant Television

Now Mac, you know good and well that "bigger is better" is just a Texas state of mind !!!!!! :)

Sharp has just come out with a 70" LED model. I own a 60" Sharp and am very happy with it. Might be worth checking out.

I would go with a Mitsubishi DLP rear projection, great picture and even better if calibrated.

The Editor of Widescreen review listed his order of preference in responce to a letter to the editor.

1) Projector
2) DLP Rear Projection
3) Plasma
4) LCD

I bought the 73" Mitsu DLP (73c10, IIRC) a few months back. It is a very big television that is pretty reasonable in cost. Dell sells it for +/- $1200. The set has good+ image quality and a lot of sq inches in an efficient cabinet, although it's a little quirky on power up (no signal, followed by the dancing mitsu logo, followed by your picture) and power down (a ghost image lingers for +/- 1 minute).

The 73" flat panel set from ??? that was just introduced is probably better, but almost 3X the cost. It wasn't available 2 months ago when I pulled the trigger, but I'm not sure it would change my mind. DLPs seem to have a life of 5ish years IME, so I put off the bigger purchase til later when the declining tech cost curve should continue to work in my favor.

Marty

PS Everyone I've talked to says the Mitsu Lazer-Vu sets (the only other <$5K option that I know of)look cool, but are more expensive than traditional DLP and glitchier (even tho they were supposed to be more reliable).

The Mitsu's are up to 92" Dlp, and should b realeased soon. that should be big enough! I beleive price is around $5000