Projection TV: Reviews

The 61-inch Samsung HL61A750 offers the best blend of picture quality and features of any current rear-projection TV -- and it costs much less than a 60-inch plasma or LCD television would cost. Like all current… rear-projection televisions, this TV uses DLP technology, but replaces the problematic bulb and color wheel with LED lights that extend lamp life out to 60,000 hours and minimize "rainbow effect" (a DLP viewing artifact that plagues a small minority of users). Reports add the colors are spot-on accurate and blacks are terrific. One neat extra is the ability to display 2D material from a computer in 3D with the aid of an extra-cost kit (*est. $150). If your room can accommodate an even bigger big-screen TV, the set is available in a 67-inch version as the Samsung HL67A750 (*est. $2,200).

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For those on a tighter budget, reviewers recommend the 56-inch Samsung HL56A650. It lacks a few of the features found in the Samsung Series 7 sets like the HL61A750 profiled above, but still delivers great picture quality… -- marked by great color and blacks -- at a price that big-screen plasma and LCD TVs can't begin to approach. The biggest difference between this set and the one above is that it uses the standard DLP setup of a lamp and spinning color wheel. That knocks picture quality down a sliver and means "rainbow effect" is more visible to the small percentage of the population that can see it. 50, 61 and 72-inch screen sizes are also available.

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