Toshiba TLP-ET1 Home Theater Front Projector
Great Image and easy to use
After almost buying a HD wide screen TV that weighs 200 pounds and costs twice as much, I decided for now to go the projector route, and so far I'm not dissapointed.  <br />I use a nice 5-foot &quot;da-lite&quot; screen to get a 16:9 image with the projector only about 6 feet away.  Picture quality seems to be very good to me, much better than computer-centric projectors I tried in the past. The menus and setup are very easy to understand, and the little remote has dedicated buttons for the most used functions like picture size.<br />Drawbacks with a projector are you need a dark room, about 5 minutes setup time if you are not permantly installing it, and a new set of 4-meter long video cables; but that outweighs the benefits in my case of living in a small apartment and putting it all out of site in 5 minutes when I am not using it.<br />So far I have used it with my progressive scan DVD player, and my Xbox system, all using component cables and really enjoying the picture quality.<br />One comment is that since this model is so new - even Toshiba themselves do not know how much the replacement lamp (2000 hours) will cost.  I see other lamps on their website for $500 so I wonder how much it will be for this.....<br />But in summary, for my situation it does exactly what I wanted it to do, and the price was right.