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Gadgets Mitsubishi Axes DLP Rear Projection TVs
Shane McGlaun (Blog) - December 3, 2012 9:31 AM
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Rear screen projection TVs are dead

Mitsubishi has announced the end of its rear projection screen TVs. For many years if you had big-screen TV, it was typically a rear projection style unit. As pricing on LCD and plasma TV sets came down and screen sizes increased, consumer interest in rear projection TVs waned.

Mitsubishi was the last manufacturer producing these relics from the past, but the company has informed its authorized service centers 73-inch, 82-inch, and 92-inch DLP projection TVs will be discontinued.

Mitsubishi Electrical Visual Solutions America (MEVSA) president and CEO Junichi Nose stated that the change was part of an "important change in business direction, which will necessitate a corresponding restructuring of the MEVSA organization."

MESVA's Max Wasinger added, "We are in the midst of an orderly exit from the DLP TV business. MEVSA will now focus on B-to-B (projectors, display wall, printers, digital signage, monitors, etc.) and the home theater projector business."

Mitsubishi's line of projection screen TVs were far from inexpensive. The 75-inch LaserVue TV sold for about $4,000 at retail locations around the country. 

Source: CE Pro


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RE: >.<
By TakinYourPoints on 12/3/2012 9:53:38 PM , Rating: 0
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The only way to get close would be finding a used Pioneer Elite Plasma that would still run more than I paid for this 9 years ago.


Panasonic's current crop of plasmas can get you to that level (not just motion, but also color accuracy, contrast, black level, etc etc), and those can be had starting at about a grand. Stay far away from LCDs though, inferior picture quality in every way.


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