The newest rear-projection TVs use one of three technologies: liquid-crystal display, Texas Instruments' digital-light processing, or some form of LCoS (liquid-crystal-on-silicon). Sony's SXRD (silicon crystal reflective display) and JVC's D-ILA (direct-drive image-light amplification) are two types of LCoS.

DLP uses millions of tiny mirrors to reflect light onto a microchip. The chip then processes these millions of reflections into a coherent image. Single-chip DLPs sometimes produce a rainbow effect, in which colors blur together (some viewers are bothered by this; others barely notice it). This happens because the single chip has to switch the primary color from red to blue to green very rapidly. Three-chip DLPs solve the problem, but they're still very new and very expensive. Just recently, Texas Instruments developed a 1080p DLP chip, which the company has licensed to Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Samsung, and several others.