Big Screens for the Big Game

Thin-bezel frames are in this season. Eight of Mitsubishi's latest LCD HDTVs boast frames less than 1 inch wide. The most full-featured models of this armada are the 46-inch Diamond LT-46244 (pictured) and the 52-inch Diamond LT-52244. Because of its thin frame, the company says that the 46-inch display takes up the same space that an average 42-inch set would occupy. In addition to a native 1920-by-1080 resolution, these sets also feature a 120-Hz refresh rate, HDMI 1.3, and a USB port so that you can easily plug in a digital camera to view your photos.

Rounding out this display is a built-in CableCard slot. A TV that has a such a slot can be used to view digital cable broadcasts, even scrambled ones, without a cable set-top box, using a CableCard, which may be obtained from your cable provider. Such slots are becoming increasingly hard to find this year, as some manufacturers have chosen to back away from this nascent technology. Vendor Site | Latest Prices