Question those of you who own rear projection units....

[Steelmaker]

What was your deciding factor when you chose to purchase a rear projection TV as opposed to plasma or LCD?? Was it purely the size/cost ratio? Do some of you actually prefer the PQ of your rear projection set over the other technologies? Also, if you had to do it all over again would you choose rptv technology again or would you go in a different direction?

I own a Sony KDS 60A2000. I bought it in January of 07. I guess for me it boiled down to that I felt that at the time it posessed the overall best balance of PQ, size/cost ratio, and functionality of any set I looked at. It certainly stood out to me when compared to other rptv's in terms of picture quality. It seemed to have better clarity, color, vividness, etc. Plus with a rptv I didn't have to worry about burn in and IR or motion blur/ghosting. Really the only drawbacks that I could see in rptv's were the viewing angles, the size, and the picture did not seem to posess quite as much sharpness/fine detail as those found on plasmas and LCD's (however some prefer this as they claim it has a more "film like" look to the picture).

Of course the prices of plasmas and lcd's have come way down since I bought my tv so I might consider going that route next time around. I would like something with a better viewing angle. However I have to say that I have really enjoyed Sony's lcos rptv quite a bit. The A3000 came out shortly after I bought the A2000. If I had to do it all over again I would probably have waited a bit longer and bought the 3000. I do have a bit of buyer's remorse in that sense but I do not regret buying rptv at all.