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What to know about big-screen TVs

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The giant screens are more popular -- and cheaper -- than ever, but complexity abounds. A primer.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Want a big-screen television set before this year's Super Bowl? Better figure out if you want LCD, DLP, PDP or CRT, and if you want your picture to be HD, ED or plain old SD.

Confused? Of course. Buying a television is quickly becoming one of the most confounding decisions in all of home entertainment.

The explosion of new television formats is creating a sales boom for the electronics industry -- even if consumers don't always know what they are buying. Digital television sales will jump to 10.77 million units in 2005 from 6.97 million in 2004, the Consumer Electronics Association forecasts.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/15/technology/personaltech/big_tvs.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes