This is something I have always wondered about. Many folks setups I do are not using the one-chip DLP HDTVs because there is one person in the household that sees the RBE and a 3-chip design would eliminated the colour wheel. LED DLPs do not require colour wheels at all, so there is less of a concern, just the "wooble" effect of those "micro-mirrors" inside the set. In a new age of flat panel sets that are not only decreasing rapidly in price and increasing in overall quality, RPTVs seem doomed in the "smaller" size diagonal set ranges under 61". I get clients that would prefer a 58" plasma on sale over a 60" RPTV, even though the RPTV is half the price, simply because they can treat their plasma like their old CRT and the RPTV has a bulb that can burn out anytime (like during a game). Until you get over 58" size (like the Samsung or Panasonic plasma panels) or maybe, the 60" Visio plasma (if that does it for you), RPTVs offer good prices vs. flat panels. Try pricing a 65" LCD or Plasma panel or higher: It's still well beyond what an RPTV costs. Since my 3LCD 70" Hitachi is no longer manufactured, I would have to wait for delivery on the newest Sony SXRD 70" (XBR5)or find a JVC 70", both RPTVs, to replace it since neither 65" (smaller in size by 16%) since no one makes the 3LCD versions anymore and I do not find the RBE non-existant in the latest batch of DLPs, either. (No,front projection will not work in my current location). A 3-chip DLP would be great for maybe a 70+ (75-85" RPTV), but I think these 3-chip designs are either an expensive manufacturing process (for real) or something manufacturers just won't do.
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This is something I have always wondered about. Many folks setups I do are not using the one-chip DLP HDTVs because there is one person in the household that sees the RBE and a 3-chip design would eliminated the colour wheel. LED DLPs do not require colour wheels at all, so there is less of a concern, just the "wooble" effect of those "micro-mirrors" inside the set.
In a new age of flat panel sets that are not only decreasing rapidly in price and increasing in overall quality, RPTVs seem doomed in the "smaller" size diagonal set ranges under 61".
I get clients that would prefer a 58" plasma on sale over a 60" RPTV, even though the RPTV is half the price, simply because they can treat their plasma like their old CRT and the RPTV has a bulb that can burn out anytime (like during a game).
Until you get over 58" size (like the Samsung or Panasonic plasma panels) or maybe, the 60" Visio plasma (if that does it for you), RPTVs offer good prices vs. flat panels.
Try pricing a 65" LCD or Plasma panel or higher: It's still well beyond what an RPTV costs.
Since my 3LCD 70" Hitachi is no longer manufactured, I would have to wait for delivery on the newest Sony SXRD 70" (XBR5)or find a JVC 70", both RPTVs, to replace it since neither 65" (smaller in size by 16%) since no one makes the 3LCD versions anymore and I do not find the RBE non-existant in the latest batch of DLPs, either. (No,front projection will not work in my current location).
A 3-chip DLP would be great for maybe a 70+ (75-85" RPTV), but I think these 3-chip designs are either an expensive manufacturing process (for real) or something manufacturers just won't do.