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Originally Posted by JiM P 2001

I just stumbled upon this, but I'll chime in with some pros and cons...

First off let me say that if you went out today and bought a TV that IS NOT 1080p, you're wasting your money.

DLPs have the best picture by far, but the screens are subject to vibration from nearby subwoofers, and you can't hang them on a wall. If you want big, cheap(compared to wall mounts), and a great picture, go DLP.

Plasmas have a crisp picture with a high contrast ratio, but not a long life compared to LCDs and DLPs. If you want to watch movies and enjoy a quality picture, but dont plan on using the TV all the time, go with a plasma.

LCDs have a tremendous life expectancy, a crisp picture, and a great refresh rate (new LCDs are doing 120hz), unfortunately you can lose pixels and it may not be covered under warranty unless you have a certain number out within a certain square area. If you want a TV that looks great, that you can use everyday without issues, buy an LCD.

On another note... You can get MASSIVE DLP TVs for way less than what you'd buy a 50" LCD or Plasma. Keep in mind, when TV shopping, that a 50" widescreen doesn't look anything like the 50" Big screen you had in 1995. You are changing your picture format from a 4:3 screen to a 16:9 screen. To give an example... a 50" 4:3 TV screen is ~30" tall, while a 50" 16:9 is ~26" tall.

If you replace a 50" 4:3 with a 50" 16:9, you will have a smaller picture. Will you notice it? Absolutely. Going with my previous example, I would replace a 50" 4:3 with a 63" 16:9 to retain the same height of the image, and simply making the screen wider. This is where a DLP makes sense. You will see a DRASTIC price jump in any LCD/Plasma TV above a 50".

Good post, when i got my 42 inch LCD TV 1080p had just came out, so i saved some money and got my 720p. I would have got a DLP, for what i payed for my 42 inch LCD i could have got a 50 inch DLP, i wanted a tv I could hang on my wall though, which i havent even done yet.......