Shopped for a tv=bought a projector.

I was going to buy a new HD tv and I checked out CRT flatscreen,DLP,LCD,CRT rear projection and ended up buying an InFocus 4805 DLP projector.For $1500 it was well worth it albeit I`m using blackout cloth for a screen right now.Anyway,you get a pretty decent picture and its awesome for dvd movies and dvd music videos.
Pros=If you have the room;up to 100 inch diagonal in 16:9.Great picture if you use a good screen.Cheap(I hear its going for $1299. now).Accepts HD signal.You can hook up comp to it for games and interweb.

Cons=DLP rainbow artifacts sometimes.Noisy if you use lamp on high power(not needed).Bulb life is about 4,000 hours on low power($400. for bulb.)Must have a dark room w/ no ambient light.Screens can be $.Hint=go to local fabric store like Jo-anns and get 3 yards of blackout cloth for about $20 if you are a cheap fuck like me.Bitchy wife or GF might not like the idea of dark room=get rid of wife or gf the projector is better than a nagging bitch believe me.

As long as you have the room to spare and the cash to burn, projectors are really fantastic, pending that you can totally block out ambient light.

Just don't play games with a projector. It'll burn fast because of HUDs etc.

>>3
if that's the case, wouldn't channel logos do the same thing to it?

>>4
Channel logos are not quite the same.  They're a mask over a dynamic image, not a specific static image.

I thought the whole point of DLP was that it doesn't have burn-in issues because there is nothing to actually burn into. The light from the projector lamp is just being reflected off a matrix of tiny movable mirrors. It's just mirrors, lenses and either colour filters (for single chip models) or prisms (for triple chip models). It's not like CRT burn-in where the electron beam damages the phosphor coating inside the tube. Rear projection sets that use CRTs are the worst for that, apparently, due to the higher intensity of the electron beam in the CRTs.

Those things are great for home cinema.

>>6
Should be correct. There is nothing to burn out in a DLP projector other than the bulb, and in my ecperience, they can last for quite a while with normal use. I think that >>3 is confused with projection screen tv's, which can burn out.

As for the need of no ambient light, if its a decently bright projector, 1400 lumens or more, they work ok in lighted conditions. We have several at school, and often we use thm for movies and presentations with the shades up and the lights off.  Even on the brightest of days they seem to be highly visible.  Just get one with a decent lumen rating.  For home theaters, i would reccomend somting at or above the 2000 range if you dont really want to worry about lighting issues, and any white surface can work as a screen.