Each television technology has its benefits and draw backs depending on what you want to watch the most:

• Traditional CRT (cathode ray tube) based TVs have been in homes across America for more than 50 years.  It is the cheapest television technology, but it can be bulky and the image being reproduced is high quality although commonly shrunk to fit the square screen.  The range of screen sizes for CRT TVs spans from just a few inches to large-size rear projection televisions.
  
  
• LCD TVs are slim monitors that are available in screen sizes up to 36 inches.  Because LCDs were originally designed for computer monitors rather than televisions, they are better suited for viewing data than video.  The response time of an LCD television is slower than other technologies, which means you may get a blurring effect when images move quickly across the screen.    Because LCD televisions tend to be smaller, they are easy to fit in most home kitchens, workshops and the like.  However, it’s important to remember that the biggest benefit of high definition television is enhancing an image so it seems that you are immersed in the picture.  This quality is much more effective on larger screen sizes.  The bigger the television, the more dramatic the improvement in picture quality from standard to high definition.  If you’re looking at a 13-inch screen, you might not notice much difference at all.
  
  
• Plasma is one of the newest television technologies, but has been on the market just long enough to become the latest craze.  Newer model plasma televisions offer picture quality and color reproduction as good as any projection television, while being thin enough to fit almost anywhere.  Plasma also has a wider viewing angle than many other televisions, which means you don’t have to sit in the “sweet spot” in the living room to get a good view of the TV.  The larger-size plasma televisions provide the most dramatic difference when viewing HDTV.
  
  
• Digital Light Processing (DLP) Although DLP is much slimmer than a typical rear projection television, they don’t have the viewing angle, size or brightness to be hung on a wall or perched on a stand easily. DLP technology uses micro mirrors and a color wheel to create an image. Viewing angles, life span, depth and brightness have plagued the technology. The upside is that these large screen displays are relatively inexpensive compared to other technologies.
  
  
• Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) technology is similar to how DLP works, however it uses  liquid crystals (LCDs) on silicon wafers (rather then small mirrors) to reproduce images.  enabling the display to show high quality image reproduction when watching movies and playing video games.  Price and size of the displays are slowing the growth of the technology.