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Big-screen bonanza.(rear-projection television)(Product/Service Evaluation)

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| March 01, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

If you're thinking of super-sizing your TV set, there's good news: Prices of jumbo sets are coming down to earth. You can buy a digital rear-projection TV with a 50-inch or larger screen and high-definition (HD) capability for $1,700, and an analog TV without HD capability for $1,000--hardly small change, but less than the $2,500 and up you'd pay for other big-screen TVs.

Most rear-projection TVs beam images from three cathode-ray tubes (CRTs) onto a screen from behind. A few sets use liquid-crystal displays (LCDs), digital light processing (DLP), or liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) instead. We tested 17 TVs, including analog and digital sets and one LCD TV, and ...

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