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I find this piece to be a great exposition on which display is best for your particular home theater setup.

A video projector can be based on any number of technologies – CRT, LCD, DLP, or LCoS – and are therefore subject to the same advantages and disadvantages of the underlying technology (LCD-based projectors suffer from the same problems that plague their flat-screen brothers, etc.). They also have their own sets of challenges common to all projectors. They all require passing the image through glass optics (which can vary in quality), they all require screens (which also vary in quality), the lamp bulbs, while replaceable, can be expensive, the units need fans to cool the lamps, and they all work best in rooms with low ambient light or the image washes out. All that being said, projectors do have one big advantage over direct view displays – display size. While plasmas can reach nearly 100” and LCDs top out at about 65” a projector can give you an image two or three times that big simply by moving it farther from the screen (although there are diminishing returns in terms of resolution and brightness). And since the size of the display is not directly tied to the price of the projector if you want a really big picture they are the most economical of all the big screen technologies.

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