It should be mentioned that any modern television can fit any home theater system. So if you already have a good television with standart audio and video connections in addition to a standard cable or antenna connection, you have at least a basic way of viewing television and DVD images. But what your should do if you want to replace it with a more advanced television. Nowadays consumers can choose from a wide variety of sizes of televisions which may range from 26-inches to 73-inches as well as from different kinds of TV sets such as plasma, LCD, rear projection and front projection. You should select the size of the television or video projection device in accordance with the size of the room which will be used as home theater and the distance with which you will be seating to the screen. However sometimes it can be very hard to choose the appropriate television for you home theater. Regardless of what type of television or video display device you buy it is crucial that it could be high definition compatible because nowadays there is an increasing amount of high definition programming like over-the-air, cable, and/or satellite sources. The determining factor in choosing between a television-type video display vs a video projector is what exactly you are going to watch: television programs or DVD movies. Useful Recommendations when Considering a Video Projector vs a Television-type Video Display  1. Video projectors unlike television sets don't contain RF cable or antenna connections. However, if your cable or satellite box has either S-Video, component, and/or DVI, or HDMI (for HD components) connections, they cna be hooked up to a video projector.
2. The life of bulb in video projectors is very limited. So if you are going to watch TV on your video projector 3-4 hours every night, the light bulb needs to be replaced about once a year (which will cost you 200-400 dollars a pop). 3. Due to the very large screen sizes which most video projections involve your standart TV or satelite don't look as good as they do. Also VHS looks very poor because it has low resolution. Much better results can be achieve if you have HDTV-cable or HDTV-satellite. Generally, video projection are more beneficial for viewing DVD, Blu-ray, or HD-DVD movies. But if you want your bulb live longer you should limit your viewing to about 10 hours a week. If you tend to replace nightly TV watching a large screen rear projection television, LCD or Plasma will be much better and more cost effective than a video projector.
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