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:/ just got my voucher from mastercare to replace my sony rear projection telly---kids spilt water on --so i have £1995 on this voucher to replace it only at currys and dixons
any sujestions as to what model to go for--have seen a nice 43" samsung which had pic in pic,for 1250 are samsung any good---open to sujestions any one!!
there was a nice site somewhere that comared telivisions against each-other any one know it!

LG 42SZ20/21 44" DLP TV, which is exactly...wait for it...£1999.95!

Seriously, go take a look, if ya like I`ll mail you privately about it`s good points, but the only things these sets have in common with a standard Rear Projection are:

Uses a light bulb! (Lol)
"Projects" the image to the screen
Lighter cabinets
Cant be viewed looking down on them, as the pic goes "foggy"

Otherwise, the picture is *stunning*, they can`t screen burn if you like playing games etc, and the picture is actually DIGITAL that you are watching, the final digital to analogue converter in it`s process is yer very own eyeball!
(OO, and they have a stand too, so ya can slot in yer DVD player n stuff ;) )

Jimbo : oÞ

Mother in laws got the samsung, nice set but hers suffers from screen burn, ideal world and a couple of other logos burnt in, However she does have it constantly on those sky channels.

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This isn`t tactical scaremongering again is it? LOL!!

Hi Guys

The number of Rear Projection TVs is about to increase in Currys and Dixons as manufacturers other than LG launch DLP models. The DLP is a fantastic product, I launched it with LG in to the UK market, and at only 34cm deep, it is sleek. But, the Samsung is very nice too, but gets screen burn.

If I were you, I would go for the LG DLP, as the technology won`t change drastically, and cos it uses a light wheel and bulbs, no mirrors, there`s no screen burn. The picture is visually stunning in comparison to a normal Rear Pro, so it`s the one I`d go for personally.

spuddie

ps I work for Currys in Marketing!?

DLP, no mirrors? Are mirrors not an intrinsic part of DLP technology?

All the best,

The 42%er.

Give me a chance to shine and I will blind the world.

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DLP, no mirrors? Are mirrors not an intrinsic part of DLP technology?

Yep, they are, I think a typo above there :)

The LG DLP Telly (if I remember right) has roughly 900,000 mirrors on it`s chip surface, equating to a 900,000 pixel resolution TV.

But, as said above, stunniing picture...stunning colour and contrast...no screen burn full stop (Be nice for the unlocked Atari original arcade star wars game hidden in Rebel Strike)....but not wall mountable and not viewable if standing above (does anyone do that anyway??)

Seriously good sets, and without the nutty prices of others in the same screen size.

And yeah, I`ve considered selling me plasma and replacing now.... ;)

Jimbo : oÞ

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DLP, no mirrors? Are mirrors not an intrinsic part of DLP technology?

Sorry, what I meant was there is no huge mirror to make the product huge in depth (Sony KP44DX2U is 1.16m deep!), and yes LG DLP uses a Digital Micromirror Device(DMD).

The DMD chip is probably the world`s most sophisticated light switch. It contains a rectangular array of up to 1.3 million hinge-mounted microscopic mirrors; each of these micromirrors measures less than one-fifth the width of a human hair, and corresponds to one pixel in a projected image.

I have a DMD on my keyring, and considering it`s size, it`s pretty impressive to see what produces this stunning image! I`ll leave the decision up to you!?

spuddie

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I have a DMD on my keyring, and considering it`s size, it`s pretty impressive to see what produces this stunning image! I`ll leave the decision up to you!?

And I got loads of `em here <grin>

Anyone wants a piccie of one....lemme know and I`ll upload it...

Jimbo : oÞ
(PS: DMD`s are up to 2.3 million mirrors...but only on the cinema units ;) )

(PPS: which are capable of producing 37 trillion different colours)