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...look at where LCD-TV prices are headed, wander over to the PC side of your neighborhood electronics store and check out the flat computer monitors. You'll probably find that small LCD TVs are marked up 50% or more, compared with monitors of the same size. LCD TVs often have brighter screens and niftier designs that add to the cost of making them, but the real reason the TVs are more expensive is low volume. With fewer TV sets sold, retailers often tack on higher margins. Prices will also be brought down by competition between LCD and plasma screens...
Lower pricing is only one factor driving consumers toward flat TVs. More and more television programming is offered in high-definition, or HDTV, format, which should boost LCD TV sales. (Traditional TVs can show HDTV programming, but sometimes not as crisply as LCD TVs, which are almost all HDTV ready in larger sizes.) In the not-too-distant future, flat TVs will be hooked up to PCs, which will record movies on a hard-disc drive. And then there's the get-the-neighbors-talking factor. Ritch Wheeler, 33, a sales manager for DaimlerChrysler from Denton, Texas, recently bought...
LocationFree TV Channel surfing is so passé. The new way to watch TV? Take Sony's 7-in. or 12-in. LCD TV anywhere there's a hot spot, and it will let you play movies or shows from your home DVD player, TiVo or cable box over the Internet...
...LCD True liquid-crystal display is basically a larger version of the pixel-based technology used in computer monitors. Pro Each new generation of LCDs looks sharper and costs less. Con Problems with contrast and a slow refresh rate mean that for now, it's hard to make large-screen LCD...
...REAR-PROJECTION LCD Three separate LCD chips--red, green and blue--are aimed at a mirror that projects them onto the screen, like regular TV tubes. Pro Handles all the extra lines of HDTV. Con Not as thin as flat-panel LCD or plasma TVs. Black areas of the screen look gray...