If you insist on getting plasma, be warned that there’s somewhere close to 100 hours or so of conditioning before you can even get around to using it normally if you want to avoid burn in and whatnot.

I’ve heard horror stories involving burn in, lifetime, power consumption, repair costs, calibration, conditioning, etc. etc. Same with LCD, but not quite that bad.

DLP’s have much greater image quality, no conditioning, no burn in, almost infinite life (as far as TV’s go), easier calibration, larger price per $$$, much less weight, etc. etc. In fact, my DLP was ready to go right out of the box, I barely had to calibrate it at all (awesome job, Samsung!)

I have the Sammy HL61A750 (DLP) and I use it for EVERYTHING, computer, blu ray, games, SD tv, HD tv, etc. etc. The only bad part about DLP’s is that there is no way in hell to mount it on a wall, but I hate wall mounted TV’s, my personal opinion.