I agree--two monitors are a better way to get what you're looking for. I see that arrangement at work all of the time. Folks in the web design and document preparation line (at the university printing press) routinely have two monitors set up.

I'm not going to fool with graduated sized televisions or types of tubes or LDC technology. I refuse to buy a television that is so bulky and heavy that I can't move it by myself, but some of these things practically need a reinforced foundation under them, they're so cumbersome. When I get my credit card completely paid off my reward will be to buy myself one of the projectors that is set up to run movies and attach to satellite or cable for regular television viewing. I won't use it instead of a tv, but as you suggest, for watching those movies or programs that I actually sit down and watch from beginning to end. Every year we do a technology fair at my university, and the vendors invariably have a few of these to use in their displays. I've seen some in the $1000 to $1500 range that would work very well in my living room. Get a good screen that will hang unobtrusively from the picture rail on my wall, and when I want to view a film, just lower it and go.

SRS