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boykster:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 25, 2006, 01:57:03 pm ---
300lb of extremely front weighted glass.  That must be a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch to move.

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biiiiiiiitch is an understatement.  Extremely front heavy, yes.  I had it delivered to the basement -> but then moved it upstairs to the 2nd floor a few months later (got a plasma to replace it).  It took 1 other guy and I about an hour to muscle it up the 2 floors, resting at each landing.  Big, heavy, bulky, and very tippy.

I agree that DLP rear projection sets are probably the sweet spot in the size / $ game.  I am partial to plasma and lcd sets as I hang em on the wall and run all the cabling to a remote wiring closet, but you'll pay more for it.

The avsforum is a GREAT place to check, there are numerous threads in each of the display technology forums that will get you started.
ChadTower:

avsforum is awesome.  They always know the sweet deals on the best hardware.  They helped me recently choose my new AV receiver and told me where to get it for about 30% of retail.
TOK:
They are CRT projection TV's. Plastic screen with red, green and blue CRT's making the image.
The Toshiba still creates a more movie like image than any DLP, LCD or Plasma I've seen, since it does truly black blacks. The downsides to CRT's are the cabinet size and the chance of burn in (less than plasma, but it's still a concern).
boykster:

--- Quote from: TOK on September 25, 2006, 08:41:41 pm ---The downsides to CRT's are the cabinet size and the chance of burn in (less than plasma, but it's still a concern).

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Too bad that the LCD manufacturers have kept this myth alive.  Burn in on a CRT is and always has been a bigger issue than on plasma.  I have a fairly early plasma (from 2000) and with just regular usage burn in is a non-issue.  WE have a plasma display at work that for 80 hours a week for the past 3 years has had a relatively static image (50%+ of the screen non-changing) and there is no burn-in

 :dunno

Just make sure you get your plasma gas refilled every year or so  ;)
alomar721:
thanks for all the great replays so far it is helping.
scott
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