I am in desperate need of my AR brother’s assistance. My plans to upgrade to a widescreen HDTV later this year have been dramatically accelerated with the untimely death of my bedroom tv. For some unknown reason, the 5 yr. old Toshiba just gave up the ghost; it simply stopped working. My plan all along has been to move the 32” Hitachi from the living room into our BR, although I was hoping to do this in the summer or fall. Plans have changed.

While speakers are subjective, TV’s are not. Correct? A good picture is not subject to interpretation. I’ve got 50” of clearance to work with and absolutely don’t want LCD. I’ve seen the “screen door” effect in full force during the Rose Bowl and it drove me nuts. I’m also not jazzed about plasma due to durability concerns. That leaves me with LCOS/D-ILA, DLP, or CRT RPTV’s. It needs to be 16:9 and HD ready as I’ll also be upgrading my Dish Network STB to HD. I’d like to keep the price under $4K if possible, but I will stretch if it’s worth it. I’m completely in the dark as far as the importance of HDMI, DVI, or other stuff I should be looking for so any insight would also be appreciated.

So far, the best picture I’ve seen goes to the JVC D-ILA set. Of course, this isn’t a very fair comparison as it was in Sears and could very well have been set to “kill.” I'm also not sold on JVC quality. I love my Ultravision Hitachi and haven’t had a lot of luck durability wise from Mits or, obviously, Toshiba (the latter really, really surprised me), but I won’t necessarily write them off.

I need your help guys/gals as the wife won’t make it through the weekend without a tv in the bedroom (we have vastly different ideas on entertainment).

HELP!!!