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Are Rear-Projection LCoS Televisions The Affordable Alternative To Giant Plasmas?
Electronics | Aug 11, 05
If you're in the market for a large, state of the art TV, you face a dilemma: Right now, the largest flat-screen LCD set is a 46-inch model from Samsung; there are also a handful of 45-inch models. You can get a lot bigger with plasma; up to 84-inches in the case of Akira’s PK-8401, for example, but that extra size is going to cost both money and resolution, the later because these televisions only display HDTV at the 720p level, as opposed to 1080p on the LCD sets. So what's a big-screen junkie on a budget to do?
One alternative to consider would be a liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) rear-projection television. Thinner and lighter then traditional CRT-based rear-projection models, this advanced technology offers big size, and, in some cases, 1080p resolution at a significant discount to plasma. For example, the Sony KDS-R60XBR1 60 inch SXRD Rear Projection TV (SXRD is Sony's "refined version" of LCoS) is available for under $5,000, while the Sony KDE-61XBR950 61 inch Plasma WEGA runs for well over twice as much. That's a lot of money for an extra inch of diagonal, and you trade the 1080p resolution of the SXRD model for the 720p of the plasma.
To be sure, LCoS/SXRD technology does not solve another key size problem, as these sets are considerably thicker and heavier than comparable plasmas and thus not generally wall-mountable. However, if you can live with your set "off the wall", you might find higher resolution and lower cost with LCoS.
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