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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
So, can you think of any good reason why I should advise the customer to have this set fixed? I'm leaning towards telling him to spend his money on a new TV.
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That's what I would do. I don't know much about DLP televisions, but I'm sure LCD and plasma flat panels make much better pictures. The latter are all electronic, whereas a DLP set still uses an electric motor (which wears out and becomes noisy over time) to spin a color wheel, to say nothing of using an expensive electric arc lamp as a light source. If you want to buy the set from the customer just to experiment with, OK, but I would not put any money into it. The other problems with DLP TVs are, as ChrisW6ATV explains in a later post, they are limited to just one screen resolution value (720p) and are very large and boxy, whereas today's flat screens are wafer-thin and can be placed on a table or stand almost anywhere. The images from flat screens are likely much better than DLPs as well, since modern flat panels are capable of reproducing images in resolution values from under 720p up to 1080i and beyond.