My aging DLP rear-projection set has quite large internal speakers and decent sound quality---certainly good enough to watch TV news.
Alan, I don't know if you remember or not, but we have the same Samsung DLP. And mine is finally dying on me. It just randomly shuts itself off two or three times a night.
It's just pushing me to a 55" LCD or Plasma, I think!
::::::: No disrespect to Axiom, but my favorite woofer is my yellow lab :::::::