[Nathans_Dad]

Thanks for all the great input. To answer a couple questions:

I am not really looking for a "theatre" experience. That will be taken care of (in spades) by my dedicated media room once it is completed. I am going all the way, home theatre seats, overhead front projection, biggest screen I can fit, 7.1 audio, velvet (or whatever they are made out of) blackout curtains over the windows, sconces on the walls, real popcorn machine, playbill over the door...etc.

We are really just looking for a quality set that will work for daily viewing, I will have it set up for 5.1 surround (just because the room is prewired).

Second, the input will be probably a dish system (not sure whether to get DishNetwork or DirecTv yet) with HD channels and DVD. My current system spends about 70% of the time on regular channels and 30% of the time on HD or DVD. I can relate to what Tech is saying about the standard TV, it does not look good on my current 55" widescreen HD RPTV.

I am leaning towards the LCD from what I have read, I had problems with burn in on my current set and don't want to fight that again (even if plasmas are not as susceptible as they used to be). If I can get an LCD set with a good refresh rate and such, I think it will work well, it will use less juice than a plasma and weigh much less which will make a wall mounting much easier than a plasma if we decide to go that route.