


So you went out and dropped a few tens of thousands of dollars on a 103-inch TV thinking you'd have the biggest in the world for a while, eh? I have some bad news for you. JVC has developed a 110-inch rear-projection HDTV, making your 103-incher seem watch-sized in comparison. JVC claims this is the world's largest rear-projection TV, and I for one am not going to argue with them. It's merely a prototype at the moment, but if they do happen to put it into production you can expect to pay dearly for having a record breaker in your living room. Not to mention the fact that you may need to cut a hole in the wall for this thing, as rear-projection screens don't hang on the wall all convenient-like.
By raymondjram at 8:00 AM ON 10/05/06
I will wait for the OLED version. As everyone else does, I love to have a large screen TV at home, but I can live without it another ten years. I rather save and get a front projection system now.
Raymond
By bobbyr54 at 12:03 AM ON 10/06/06
I agree for a rear projector TV it's rediculous. A 110 inch rear projection TV has to be so big, the TV must have to sit in one room while you watch it from another room. I much prefer an idea I came up with if I could afford to build my own house. The TV would have room all to itself where you will watch it. The screen will probably measure 8 feet by 15.5 feet and will be one wall of my theater room, with surround sound DTS and the projecter with DLP technology with all the eguipment in the music and video library in another room at the back of the Home Theater room with the entrance designed in such a way that you won't need a door to keep out the distracting light.
By JohnAndrews at 12:06 PM ON 10/13/06
the main advantage of a rear-pro tv is it's ability to look good and bright enough in a room full of ambient light. BUT, a lot of progress has been made on front projection in the past year or so. Not only with the high light output projectors themselves but the high angular-reflective screens.
The other downside to this monstrosity is... How in the heck would you get that thing through a normal doorway... anyone think of that while moving it from the factory to the huge exhibit hall it was no-doubt shown off in...
One more item of interest to those who want to do big things and the cool factor... If 110" is all you want or if you want to feel like you are first on your block to have a really big rear-pro screen, say 144, 160, 200, whatever you can afford... Custom rear-pro has been in the home-theater elite industry for a LONG time. You can use a high end projector with image shift like Runco (if you're gonna name drop, name drop the best!) and a specially designed screen, usually made with glass layers, but technology has come around in this area too... then you just need a good home theater design team to pull it all together. Usually built into a house designed for it, the room has to be longer because you basically build it as a false wall on one end of the room, sacrificing the depth of such a tv, then doing some decorative mouldings around it. The advantage to this is no silhouettes on the screen as people get up and better soundproofing of the projector's fans. Also like i said before, it has better ambient light rejection, because the screen itself is light transmissive and the outer viewing surface can be completely anti-reflective.
JohnAndrews:
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