IMO, I think you'd be happier in the long run with the LCD or Plasma Flat Panel. Especially with the Kuro's going on sale, perfect opportunity to capture a great deal.
The DLP bulbs seldomly last as long as advertised and the darn thing is just BIG compared to a flat panel.
The viewing angle gets really really annoying too.
FWIW, I bought my Kuro simply because I was sick of the maintenance of my HLN617W. 5 years ago, the DLP was $4k, I was told (and read) that DLP was best bang for buck. Right out of the box, I was greeted with a stuck pixel. After that was "repaired", I had to deal with a mis-aligned screen. Less than a year into it, the bulb burned out. In the second year, the colorwheel went. At the end of that year, I was in the market for bulb #3. This past Christmas, the colorwheel shattered once again, and I pretty much wrote anything that has moving parts off the list of future TVs. When we move next month, it's going in the basement with a new colorwheel, and the kids can play their video games on it. That $4k TV that was relatively maintenance free has cost me about as much as it's worth now in new parts.
I lucked out with the Kuro 5020FD. It was a day-old display model that I got because I complained that BB had no other TVs in stock. I walked out with it for $1900. I would have liked the 111, but I couldn't pass up a deal of $1500 off.
