Suhit Gupta
05-04-2006, 06:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/review3547.html' target='_blank'>http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/review3547.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"If TVs get any larger, I may have to get a new house. It isn’t that the RCA Scenium HD61LPW175 DLP TV had any problem slipping through the front door for this review. After the delivery guys undressed it on my front deck, it was smooth sailing carrying the 18-inch deep TV through the door frame. And at about 90 pounds it was a fairly pain-free setup for them (easy for me to say) compared with the girth of a big-screen CRT. It’s the viewing distance required that’s bumping me against the wall. I had to position myself at the very back of the room because anything closer to the screen was too close for comfort. I’m one of those people who prefers the back of the theater to the front, and trust me, a 61-inch TV can put on a heck of a show from 16 feet away."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/20060501_1635211.gif" /><br /><br />The HD61LPW175 lists for $3,099 but the author has found it on the web for as low as $2,148 and as high as $2,696. And give the huge 61-inch screen size, the picture quality, and the feature set, this seems like a great buy. However, having said this, I think this TV is the perfect example of one where you are either paying for the high quality picture or optimizing for the size : price ratio. When I was buying my Sharp and Sony TVs, I ran through the same dilemmas and chose to go with the higher picture quality and am honestly completely satisfied that I did so.