If you're thinking of buying a decent 50-inch plasma TV, don't expect a great deal of change from around four or five grand. Enter Optoma's ThemeScene RD50 rear projection TV using Texas Instruments' wonderfully named DarkChip2 DLP technology

Yamaha is a familiar name in home cinema circles thanks to its trail-blazing AV amplifiers and receivers, but it's rapidly gaining a reputation in another field - video projection.

Thomson's latest DLP rearprojection TV scooped a 'First Class'award in the Digital Display category at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.www.thomson-europe.com

It's astonishing how DLP - now the dominant force in video projectors - is revitalising the rear-projection TV market. Only a short time ago, anything other than a flatpanel display - be it plasma or LCD - looked to have no future on the high street

Sagem fully deserved the ample praise it received for its first rear-projection TV.Thankfully, the French company hasn't taken too long to return with a fully high-definition compatible model, the 45in Axium HD-D45.

Few nuts are more difficult to crack than that of the 'step up' projector. It doesn't take much to spot a massive performance difference between a £1,000 entry level projector and a £3k-plus mid-to-high end alternative

As far as projectors are concerned, Mitsubishi has traditionally been associated with the business end of the market. This translates to 4:3 aspect ratios, and the sacrifice of contrast range for brightness

Priced at £4,500, Dreamvision's new DLP projector, the Dreamweaver 2, certainly has the status to put its owners in an elite group. Sleek, smart and very sexy, the Dreamweaver 2 comes in a choice of white, silver or black finishes...

NEC has clearly thought about what people want from a living-room product. You get a slim unit that'll easily slot between two armchairs or look inconspicuous mounted on the ceiling, along with an easy one-handed up/down tilting mechanism

Forget big-screen plasmas - the only way to get the true movie-going experience in the comfort of your own home is to invest in a projector. This DLP model produces great pictures when fed with a DVD player

Thomson's CRT-based projection TVs have traditionally won favour with the critics of Home Cinema Choice. But now the brand has junked CRT for a DLP-based light engine. The benefits are enormous

DLP technology now dominates the mid and up-front projection market, so it's no surprise to see inventor Texas Instruments pushing it into new areas, such as this rear-projection TV

There's no doubt that Sim2 knows how to make seriously tasty projectors. The only problem is that, traditionally, Sim2 quality hasn't come cheap. All that is set to change with the £2,850 Sim2 Domino 18

Many of the traditional 'quality' brands are now trying to get a bit of the über-budget action,with Toshiba being the latest to give it a go with the £430 28Z44.Surprisingly,the 28Z44's low price hasn't prevented Toshiba...

It's not often that we are left speechless. But the silence at What Projector towers was truly deafening as we unpacked Viewsonic's PJ400. The reason? Oh, just the small matter of it having the smallest price tag - by a country mile -

On paper, Sony's Cineza projector concept rocks: affordable, designer models designed to appeal to ordinary, non-technical home cinema fans. Some early models even shipped with a free screen!

Only a short time ago, LCD projectors looked distinctly second-rate when compared to rival DLP and CRT technologies. Then Sony threw a cat among the pigeons with its VPL-HW12HT LCD, then came Panasonic's LCD PT...

Cute as a button, here is a projector whose selling pitch is summed up on the manufacturer's website in the following terms: '1300 ANSI lumens means that you can leave the lights on'.Perhaps slightly exaggerated, this remains....

The dramatic upsurge in the popularity of home cinema projectors has opened the door for many traditionally business-only brands to have a crack at the living room market.

Up to now, US outfit Vidikron hasn't really made a major splash in the UK. But that could all be about to change. How come? Because Vidikron is now actually owned by Runco, another US outfit that already has made waves in the UK...

Toshiba's latest is a true home cinema projector: a DLP design using the Texas Instruments 1,024 x 576 pixel optical chip. The MT500 is lightweight, but there's no carrying handle or internal speaker.

We've been mightily impressed by some of Toshiba's supposedly lower-ranking projectors - so we come to the company's flagship MT8 model with hopes raised high.The Mt8 looks quite plush in some ways

The HT300 Link is the latest state of the art DLP projector from SIM2 which consists of two main components. One is the projector itself, which is packaged in the same attractive and not at all box-like sculptural moulding used with other SIM2 models...

As the proud owner of arguably the most varied and fully realised projector range available in the UK, Sim2 clearly isn't short of confidence. And this confidence certainly doesn't seem misplaced

Over recent months we've seen circular projectors, square projectors and rectangular projectors... so, in the interest of geometrical fairness, we thought we'd best take a look at a triangular projector. Cue Sharp's XV-Z91E.