What types of televisions are available?

What types of televisions are available?

Jeff Colen (President, A Sharper Home, Inc.) gives expert video advice on: What size television should I buy?; Will my new HD television work with my current set-up? and more...

We have the old style tube T.V., probably the kind you grew up with. Although tube televisions are big and bulky, they have the advantage of having excellent brightness and picture colour but tube televisions really are heavy and don't get larger than 40 inches because physics takes over and it's impossible to make glass for the TV screen that big and that heavy. Then you have the newer televisions that everyone sees, which are the flat panel screens, LCD and plasma T.V's. You also have rear projection T.V.s which basically shine a light from a source from behind the screen and project it from the rear, those are called DLP (digital light projection) T.V.s, and finally you have front projection televisions out there. Front projection televisions are ones that project from a projector onto a flat screen on a wall.