a digital clock with a variety of different retro display technologies forming its numerals. Among those was an extremely unusual device, a rear-projection display with an array of bulbs each able ...

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 ...

Big TV Size Has Always Been a Status Symbol CRT TVs Were Limited in Size Due to Electron Beam Tech Rear Projection TVs Provided a Taste of the Future, Despite Disappointments Before the plasma ...

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 ...

And it begs the question, “Is the demise of the rear projection TV on the horizon? Its been an interesting week with television announcements from several companies. While flat-panel TVs from Hitachi ...

Samsung finally stopped making rear-projection DLP sets in 2009, leaving Mitsubishi the sole maker of this type of TV. Consumer Reports stopped testing DLP sets in 2009. Once the only real option ...

The projector is either ceiling hung or mounted high on an opposite wall. Contrast with rear-projection TV. See data projector. Front-projection TVs can change their screen size by replacing the ...

That's two years after I started at CNET and a time when most TVs were still CRTs and rear-projection models -- just 7% of TVs sold that year were flat-panel. Today every TV sold is a flat-panel TV.

Rear-projection TV is dead, and there's little reason to think the technology will pull a Lazarus anytime soon. On Monday Mitsubishi confirmed it has already ceased production of its last RPTVs ...