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| Thread ID: 47651 | 2004-08-02 00:01:00 | OT: New Rear Projection TV's | Eorr (2788) | Press F1 |
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| 257314 | 2004-08-02 02:28:00 | My thoughts on this would be to wait a while ~ 6 months maybe. The technology is changing rapidly and whilst LCD rear projection sets are now on sale, in that time it will have changed again and of course those sets will be much cheaper. At upwards of $9000 for one of the LCD types it hardly seems value for money when you can get a nice LCD projector and have a picture that's twice the size of a RP set and takes up virtually no room, for close to half that price. Proviso with a projector is you really want 1200 ansi lumens+ for a nice bright picture that is viewable in normal daylight conditions in a room. Conventional RP sets use individual CRTs (one red, one green, one blue) to produce a picture. The tubes are driven at high levels to get sufficient brightness out of them, and like any CRT their life is limited - 5 years is a general figure, after which their light output starts to fall just like a standard CRT TV. |
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| 257315 | 2004-08-02 02:38:00 | Thanks, SuperT. Good advice. I appreciate your view. BTW, what sort of set do you have, just curious? Cheers. | Eorr (2788) | ||
| 257316 | 2004-08-02 02:57:00 | i'm not a fan of RP tv's simply due to the poorer quailty pics than most good crt tv's. i must admit the more recent rp tv's are a lot better and size does count ;-) however with crt RP tv's one thing to watch out for is leakage. the crt tubes often leak coolant. one factory mod to stop the problem is to install drip trays ! some models are really bad due to the leaky coolant dripping on to the circuit boards :( not to sure which models/brands are the worst for this i will have to ask a mate who repairs them next time i see him. |
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