Audio Video News

Both Toshiba and Hitachi have announced they're dumping their rear-projecction TVs. If new figures are anything to go by, they may soon have company.

A study by the IDC Group claims that RPTV sales, having peaked at 3.5 million units in 2004, will drop to 30,000 by 2011.

That probably means that current fire-sale prices may go even lower as manufacturers blow out existing inventory. But given the ever-increasing quality and ever-lower pricing of flat panels, is a cheap RPTV really such a great deal? Especially consider the higher repair rate?