>So I am looking at getting an HD TV sometime in the future, and I am hoping somebody on here can straighten me up on some lingo.
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>A guy I know tells me I want 1080p. He also says avoid Plasmas, and look into DLPs if I want to spend a bit more for better quality.
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>When I look at the Best Buy website, I see they have a category for LCD Flat Panel, and Projection. What are the differences? I see a trend that LCD Flat Panels are more expensive. If the only difference is that the Flat Panels are flat, and the Rear Projections aren't, then I don't want to spend the extra money on an LCD.

Rear projection is out - it's too bulky, and actually has all the trouble you get when you're trying to cover a large surface with a spotlight from a short distance - it's worse in the corners. Not only darker, but also needs fine tuning to get the convergence right. I've seen a bunch of these on various shop floors, and most of them were in dire need of a piano tuner guy to set them right. Also, when you move along, you see that the brighter area in the middle moves as you do, i.e. you're still looking at the light source behind it.

Back in 1980 I said I'll buy a color TV once it gets to be hung on a wall. Boy, was I wrong - I had to buy one in 1988 (because of the Atari 1040STf that I wanted to plug into it). It's nearly 20 years later now, and while I can surely buy one that I can hang on the wall, I don't see why would I. TV has become a combination of brainwasher and sales pitch machine.

And I just got an idea: why don't they hand out DVDs with previews of next week's movies in the movie theaters, and treat the audience with a few minutes of just silence before the show? The main reason I'm going to movies once in a three blue moons is that 1) they lie about the times, the movie NEVER begins when they say, and 2) the delay is caused by an endless stream of previews for movies that I'm absolutely not interested in, all spoken in a bass voice, edited at a furious pace of less than a second per cut, with all the aural shocks one can imagine. I don't mind advertising as long as it's unobtrusive, when it's in-your-face, my face goes elsewhere.

Besides, they could run more movies for the same time.