The “Break it Down” Blog

Convert Your RPTV Into a Home Theater Projector

Chris Hunkele sent in this pretty incredible story of do-it-yourselfing from a guy that took his busted down old 50″ rear-projection-television (RPTV), took the front screen off of it, mounted it behind a rear-projection screen that was much bigger (pictured above) and turned it into a huge-screen projector for his home theater. The magic all started [...]

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What Does the Rainbow Effect (RBE) Look Like?

A lot of folks are confused when you talk about the Rainbow Effect or RBE for short. They don’t quite know what you mean. I ran across this perfect example of it, take a look: It’s caused by single-chip devices trying to display Red/Green/Blue colors at the same time. Most rear project televisions use a color [...]

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Rear Project HDTVs to Want (Sony A2000/XBR2, Samsung LED/DLP, Mitsubishi XX732, HP XX80n)

Introduction The purpose of this post is to give a hard list of the rear projection televisions that consumers should keep their eyes out for. This list was compiled by determining a theme of the most discussed HDTVs from the AVS Forum Rear Project Units thread over the last year. Given the most discussed HDTVs I [...]

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