Pros

• Offers the most screen size for your buck.
• Excellent picture quality.
• Excellent black level.

Cons

• Very heavy and deep.
• Cannot be viewed in bright light.
• Narrow viewing angle.
• Hard to maintain.

Rear Projection LCD televisions are becoming more prevalent. They work just like a slide show by directing light through a silicon chip and then magnifying it for projection. The pros and cons are as follows:

Pros

• Excellent Picture
• Slim Profile

Cons

• Expensive
• Poor black level.

Another type of TV is a rear projection DLP. DLP stands for digital light processing. The projectors manipulate thousands of tiny mirrors on a semiconductor chip. The color is generated by shining a light through a rotating color wheel that has red, green and blue on it. The colored beams hit the semiconductor chip forming an image to project on the screen. Here are the pros and cons:

Pros

• Again an excellent picture.
• Capable of displaying HDTV at full resolution.
• Requires no maintenance.