A new HDTV technology that is taking the television industry by storm is Digital Light Processing or DLP which was created by Texas Instruments. DLP involves a process in which over a million microscopic mirrors of Digital Micro mirror Devices or DMDs are used in order to get a lot more pixels on a high definition television (HDTV) screen. This process ensures that the final image on the DLP HDTV screen is a lot clearer and sharper. Additionally, you need to understand that it is the DMD or Digital Micromirror Devices that drive the DLP HDTVs. The DMD is made out of aluminum which makes the DLP HDTVs to be of a very light weight.

More Pixels Means Better Picture Quality

The advantage to using millions of DMDs is the fact that just one DMD has the capability of storing 1, 280 pixels. Ultimately, having a lot of them packed in one HDTV add up to a stupendous number of pixels, which means much better picture quality. In fact, there is continuing enhancement being made to how DMDs function with Hewlett Packard coming up with the possibility of allowing a DMD process to produce not one, but two pixels in one go. Obviously, with such improvements in DMD processes, the DLP HDTV will only go from better to excellent, in the future.

More over, the DLP HDTV also is competitively priced as compared to what you will pay for say a flat panel Plasma TV or even an LCD TV. Besides the price advantage, the DLP HDTV also ensures that you get excellent picture quality and also a longer shelf life as compared to the traditional tube TV set. On the downside though, the DLP HDTV has less of contrast as compared to LCD television sets and even the range of colors offered by the DLP HDTV is not very wide.

Nevertheless, the DLP HDTV wins hands down when it is sporting action that you want to view or even when you are watching action oriented movies.

Basically, a DLP HDTV uses a color wheel system to give you the colors that you have selected and there are three primary colors used including red, blue and green and by mixing these primary colors with the help of DMD process, you are able to get about two hundred and fifty-six different color shades.

All broadcast is slated to be digital in 2009 so if you haven't already broken down and bought a HDTV, now is as good as any to begin researching which is the best HDTV to buy. Although there will be digital set top boxes to work with your old analog TVs, you will be better off with a HDTV to benefit from great picture and sound quality. The prices of HDTVs have dropped dramatically and will continue to go down with time.