Future Prognosis? : CRT vs DLP Front Projectors (1 Viewer)

[Michael FF]

I have been told that CRT's are on their way out as DLP's begin to dominate the market. Any truth to this?

 

[Neil Joseph]

Not quite yet but if the next generation continues to improve across the board then the case for crt becomes more difficult.

 

[mark alan]

Let's not forget about lcd projectors. I think that sony and sanyo and panasonic would argue that they are the future.

 

[Michael FF]

I had a Runco $18,000 Digital Liquid Crystal front projector set up beside a Runco $8000 Digital Light Processor front projector-----result: the liquid crystal image was inferior to the digital light.

 

[alan halvorson]

Ok - assume I'm a front-projector dummy (not very hard to assume). CRT's are always said to produce the best blacks. What other ways are CRT's superior to digital projectors?

 

[Jack Briggs]

For the most part, that's the essential advantage — but its a key advantage, given that deep, accurate blacks provide a projected image with much of its snap and dimensionality.

CRTs still excel at color rendition too.

But the disadvantages of CRT front projectors are considerable as well: weight, fussiness, the need for professional installation, exhorbitant cost, low light output (they cannot be viewed in anything less than a completely darkened room), etc.

DLP is fast closing the gap for such a new technology. As Neil indicates, in another model year or two it is going to be difficult to justify the $40,000-plus for a CRT projector.