grundc,

Just a guess, but my bet is that the Hitachi is the best looking set in your collection - followed by either of the two DLPs, with the plasma somewhat behind the pack. I'm assuming that they've all been professionally calibrated.

For picture quality alone, you still can't beat a well-calibrated set of CRTs in my opinion.

DLP has the potential to edge it out with further refinements - and LCOS has the potential to eventually vault past it. Right now there are some excellent DLP units out there.

I'm still not sold on either plasmas or LCDs for critical viewing.

But then again there are more factors to consider than picture quality (and accuracy) alone.

The buyer's biggest difficulty is the inability to do critical comparison shopping at almost all stores big enough to carry good examples of each type. It's tough to find properly calibrated units on the showroom floor / in a viewing room. And if you are going to drop a whack of change on any HDTV, it's the after-calibration results that matter the most since you'd be crazy not to do so. I have no connection to ISF except to say that I was blown away by the improvement to my 40" Toshiba CRT HDTV once ISF calibrated - even though I had done a better job than probably 95% of the population just by using the user-accessible controls and a few good calibration disks. Likewise two of my friends who had their larger Toshiba and Hitachi CRT's ISF calibrated after seeing what mine looked like.

Jeff Mackwood