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Front projectors: bring the theater home.(ELECTRONICS: GET THE PICTURE)(Buyers Guide)

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For a truly theater-like experience, you can't beat a front projector paired with a screen that stretches 100 inches or more diagonally. The image quality rivals the best a plasma TV can offer, at a comparable price: $3,000 to $3,500 for an excellent high-definition projector.

That's a major change from years past, when the only real choice for a home theater was a bulky CRT-based projector that could cost tens of thousands of dollars. The latest projectors are compact units using LCD, DLP, or LCoS technology--the same display technologies used in rear-projection microdisplay TVs.

Unlike their rear-projection cousins, front projectors have no screen or ...

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