Swami

Speaking of digital projectors, I remember back in 2000 when I was looking around for home theater option me and my girlfriend ended up looking at one at a church with an 8 year old digital projector that was so big it had its own room in the back. The lens cup on its front was like 8 inches across or so and the projector itself was easily 200cm to a side and 80cm high. That probably cost a mint when it was new as well. 

Depending on how thick you mean by "thick"....but many of the LCD tv's in those days were LCD "projection" , especially the thick ones.  It would have a tiny LCD screen in back...that was projected forward to the display surface. Essentially killing any clarity LCD gave you over CRT.  It was ridiculous time when the TV manufacturers wanted to make tv's big enough to compete with the larger plasma tv's, wanted to claim "LCD", and wanted it to be priced competitively.   

Ah yes, the DLP rear projections ones.  I kinda forgot about those.  Way smaller than the regular tube rear projection, but still bulky.

When I said $10k+, I was talking about the first LCD/Plasma flatscreens.