Want to get a bigger tv but can’t afford it? If you Have a rear projection TV, why not just get a bigger screen? That’s exactly what was done here. They dismantled the old TV, mounted it and ...

An earlier large-screen TV that employed several technologies to generate the image. Rear-projection TVs (RPTVs) were developed to extend the size of the CRT TV, which for practical purposes maxed ...

If you wanted a true big-screen TV, it was rear-projection or nothing. Rear projection TVs actually date all the way back to the mid 1930s, when maximum CRT tube sizes were even more constrained.