Cheap large-screen TVs for the football season

Round-up by: Ian Morris

Last updated: 17 Aug 2007

If you want to enjoy the football season, the best way to do it is on a large screen TV. The bigger the screen, the more mates you can get round it, and the more clearly you can see when someone takes a dive.

We've picked a few of our favourite screens from among the hundreds we've reviewed. The models we've selected are all available for around £1,000: some are a little less, like the Toshiba -- some, like the Sony, are slightly more.

Two of the sets on our list are even 1080p, something that not very long ago would have been impossible at this price. Both the Sony and the Toshiba offer the 'Full HD' support but the Panasonic projector and plasma are both 720p, and that's really good enough, even for fast-moving sport.

We've recommended the Sony rear-projection TV because these screens offer fantastic picture quality for very little money. If you remember the horrible rear-projection screens that adorned pubs across the country in the 90s, don't worry -- these are nothing at all like those.

And we have included a projector in the round-up because it doesn't get much more impressive than watching your team romping to victory on a huge screen in your lounge. The Panasonic PT-AX100E is one of our favourite projectors -- it offers amazing performance at a sensible price. You can squeeze a 100-inch image out of it, as long as you have a dark room to use it in.