Thats what I bought my girlfriend for xmas! Its a cracking telly. We needed something big as the sofas are a fair way from the tv. And we had no interest in wall mounting it but as you say its not much deeper than a plasma. In fact everone that visits assumes it is a plasma! Picture quality to me is excellent, but I have had crap tellys for years.

Nice. I'll take you up on that :D
(But do you have a HD source? ;) )

why wouldnt you go the plasma route ? ?

/ian

Nice one Martin It looks fab my Crt rear projection has a really good natural picture compared to plasmas and lcd's and for me they are much better value for money, only wish mine was HD ready :( then again it is about 3 yrs old :lol::lol:

When we looked at large TVs a few years back we ended up discounting rear projectors 'cos of the cost of lamp replacement (and the fact that they were all bleedin' huge...). Is that still an issue with LCD rear projectors? What about large LCD screens?

I had a plasma that lasted 18 months. So I would'nt recommend them.
But we did get insurance, and once the engineer failed to fix it, they offered us another plasma. Which we were a bit weary of, so we put the extra money up, and got this puppy:

http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/648_231134.html

Which is cheaper on this site, good luck.

Go for an LCD, Plasma`s are old skool!

Avoid Plasma, screen burn is a problem and can be permanent, the life expectancy isnt all that great and if they have been dropped or banged in the warehouse they wont work!

Go for an LCD, they are getting bigger all the time and the picture quality is better than a plasma.

We have a 42" Toshiba Plasma at work ( a re-badged Panasonic). It was fine for the first year then had 2 major faults in the next 9 months. Each required a new board at £500 a time. If it packs up again it's going in the skip.
And as said above they do suffer badly from screen burn if you're not careful. Watch out for digital channels with hard icons in the corner of the screen.

Im sure there is no lamp in mine as its a small crt tv projected onto the back of screen I believe. What you say about lamps is true of stand alone projectors where you project an image on to front of screen or wall, in these the lamps do have so many hours running time.

Over the years rear projection tvs have got less depth to them mines about 400mm deep for a 42" when a 36" crt was so deep almost as it was wide:o:o