The Best Current 60" to 62" Rear Projection HDTV

"Mikepier" wrote in
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ZVR wrote:
Personally, I would not buy a DLP TV simply because of the problems
associated with the color wheel - the rainbow effect (although not
everybody notices that), and more importantly the mechanical failures

There are only 3 things major components of the DLP that can fail: the
bulb, cooling fan, and color wheel. As far as the rainbow effect of
the color wheel, Mitsubishi uses a 6 segment color wheel which reduces
the rainbow effect. Even so, the older DLP's, I couldn't really notice
the rainbow effect.
To each his own. I was just giving my opinion.


They are all good But I have the HD ila set for 18 months now and would
have nothing else

skip wrote:

[snip]
They are all good But I have the HD ila set for 18 months now and would
have nothing else

Personal experience counts for a great deal - DLP doesn't seem to be
that popular these days in the market, but for everyone who owns a set
and haven't had any problems with them, I'm sure they're all happy with
them.

I've had mine for a little over a year and am quite satisfied with it.

Terence

Deke wrote:
The 61" JVC HD-ILA is excellent. Your choice as to which model you choose.
The PRO series will display 1080, and are around 500 bucks higher, the less
expensive model will display 720.

And the price keeps dropping--this weekend BB had the 56 1080 set for
$1999 and the 61 for $2299. In the case of the 56, that's a $600 drop
over three weeks!

Dave
Googlin'

I haven't really done a lot of research but just to share what I have.
I bought a HP 65" Rear Projection DLP 1080p HDTV md6580n. Believe it
or not. It really is HP! The quality is simply amazing. Last week I
finally got HD receiver and it's just unbelievable. It easily beats
out the all the Samsungs, Mitsubishis, or Toshibas in my opinion. (But
what do I know, I'm no TV guru.) The speakers are great, too! The
sound easily fills up my raised ceiling livingroom which is connected
to breakfast rooom and kitchen with crystal clear sound. It has a
great feature that all inputs are located at the front. Although I do
wish they put a couple at the back as well... Personal preference, I
suppose.

Downsides. The fan noise could become noticeable and you might find it
annoying. It is made by HP so you might want to thinking about support
issues. I'm not saying there would be issues; just something to think
about.

Check out the review he
http://reviews.cnet.com/HP_MD6580n/4...-31484737.html

The Sony sets are excellent, just be sure to get one built after Aug, 2006
since early ones had a minor software error and more issues with the "Green
Blob". A new line is in the works that is even narrower.

Richard.

On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:59:48 -0500, ZVR wrote:

Personally, I would not buy a DLP TV simply because of the problems
associated with the color wheel - the rainbow effect (although not everybody
notices that), and more importantly the mechanical failures. The LED-based
sets promise to solve these issues but the first generation of such TV's
(which are already available on the market) has its problems; it looks like
the LED-based light engine is not mature yet.


The rainbow effect issue has been addressed by new color wheels,
and second generation DLP chips.

"James Egan" wrote in message
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On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:59:48 -0500, ZVR wrote:

Personally, I would not buy a DLP TV simply because of the problems
associated with the color wheel - the rainbow effect (although not
everybody
notices that), and more importantly the mechanical failures. The
LED-based
sets promise to solve these issues but the first generation of such TV's
(which are already available on the market) has its problems; it looks
like
the LED-based light engine is not mature yet.


The rainbow effect issue has been addressed by new color wheels,
and second generation DLP chips.

It has been improved, but not eleiminated. It was never as big a deal as
many have said, but if you are one of the people bothered by it, you are
likely to see it even on the newest sets. In the years that we have been
selling DLP based front projection and RP we have had only one client
bothered by it.

Leonard

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"Leonard Caillouet" wrote in
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"James Egan" wrote in message
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On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:59:48 -0500, ZVR wrote:

Personally, I would not buy a DLP TV simply because of the problems
associated with the color wheel - the rainbow effect (although not
everybody
notices that), and more importantly the mechanical failures. The
LED-based
sets promise to solve these issues but the first generation of such
TV's (which are already available on the market) has its problems;
it looks like
the LED-based light engine is not mature yet.


The rainbow effect issue has been addressed by new color wheels,
and second generation DLP chips.

It has been improved, but not eleiminated. It was never as big a deal
as many have said, but if you are one of the people bothered by it,
you are likely to see it even on the newest sets. In the years that
we have been selling DLP based front projection and RP we have had
only one client bothered by it.

Leonard

I have the JVC HDILA set no problems at all and a great picture. No color
wheel no rainbows.

"skip" wrote in message
...
I have the JVC HDILA set no problems at all and a great picture. No color
wheel no rainbows.

When compared side by side to the SXRD and the best DLP sets, the best of
the JVCs are certainly competitive. The problem witht hem is that they have
varied quite a bit in performance and JVC has a much more limited service
netowrk than Sony or Mitsubishi in many areas. Where they do not have a
sufficient service network they do not provide any support to servicers who
are not ASCs for JVC. They have been arrogant and impossible to deal with
when trying to support the product in these areas and insist that customers
bring the sets to ASCs, even if they are distant. Additionally, they have
included "booby traps" in some of their sets that wipe the memory in EEPROMs
that contain data required to use the digital inputs if an unkowing servicer
or consumer opens the back of the set when it is powered. This requires
buying a new EEPROM , only available through ASCS and only at a great
expense. This kind of arrogant aproach to customer service has turned many
of us off to JVC. This is nothing new. It has been a consistent pattern
for nearly three decades.

With products that are arguably better in almost all cases, and certainly as
good, there is not much reason in most markets to choose JVC.

Leonard

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On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:18:57 -0500, "Leonard Caillouet"
wrote:


With products that are arguably better in almost all cases, and certainly as
good, there is not much reason in most markets to choose JVC.

I had several hundred good reasons--and each one had a picture of
George Washington on it. :-) Your point about service is taken.
Fortunately I do have a JVC servicer in my area should I need one.

I didn't see anything about an SXRD that justified the increased cost
over my 1080P JVC--and I didn't have to worry about the Green Blob!

Dave Clary/Corpus Christi, Tx
Home: http://davidclary.com