Hey Mark,
I have an idea. Every time you open your mouth (or type) you make it clear how truly uneducated you are. So stop. To Tom's Hardware: please fire this moron.
"DLP and other projection TVs are just not a perfect fit for serious gamers. Unlike plasma and LCD, these technologies have not been aggressively improved, leaving them as the less-expensive HD alternative. They're bulky and not always reliable it just doesn't exude the same "wow" factor as a sleek flat-panel display"
wow just wow. Your lack of knowledge is astounding. Let's start with DLP, shall we? Faster spinning color wheels, 7 color segments now, complete loss of so-called rainbow effects, now have 1080p sets, oh and new sets will have the option of LED lighting instead of the bulbs... but yeah, you're right their Marky Mark, no upgrades.
Oh, lets not even mention, LCOS/SXRD which only made it to market less than 2 years ago and are now within reasonable price ranges. No no, lets not do that, that would show intelligence and actual investigation before we start writing, wouldn't it?
"You can, however, forget about what you may have heard about LCD being a bad choice for fast-moving images. This was a problem in the infancy of LCD HDTVs when sluggish frame rates were a major drawback, but this is no longer the case today."
Infancy? It was a problem with all but the highest end sets a year and a half ago. Yes, most new sets have, for a typical user, eliminated the problem, but the quality of LCD varies more than any other tech. It can be great, but it can also be crap. If you plan on purchasing an LCD set you need to do enough research on that specific set to make sure it is quality. Sets can even vary within a manufacturer between different sizes, so you have to be extra careful compared to other tech.
Let me tell, Mark, what a "serious gamer" really wants...
1) High response time
2) No burn in
3) great black levels
4) Doesn't care about "wow" factor - unless he's a rich twit with too much money
5) High performance without turning a blind eye to $/performance
6) Bigger is better, despite what your... ahh, nevermind
7) full compatibility with 1080p/i and 720p
Where does that leave the smart gamer?
hmm... DLP and LCOS unless they have money to burn.
A "full HD" plasma display is going to cost 1.5 -2x more then a comparable rear-projection set.
If you have the money, excellent, but most people don't have that much to spend - i guess you don't care about them, after all they're poor and don't deserve your time or effort.
Black levels - try and actually see the difference between them in a lit room, good grief...
DLP/LCOS are both much larger than LCD
A lot of plasma's are not full HD, often at resolutions of 1280x1080 or 1366x768, a true 1080p set is over $3000
"Wow" factor. I've got some "wow" factor for you.
How about...
"Wow, that rear projection technology looks great"
"Wow, a true 1080p 50"+ set for less than $2,000"
"Wow, what kind of moron would write off this tech because it isn't ultra thin?"
-tiger