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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 ...