The new 1080P sets are coming out right now and are pretty sweet. I just bought a Samsung 71 inch DLP from Best Buy. They have some smaller models that would be more in your size though.
Such as this one:
Samsung HLS5087
When comparing with other brands, keep in mind, some of the new sets that say they are 1080P are not really 1080P, for example Toshiba's DLP's and all the Hitachi's that I seen. They only accept a 1080i signal on their inputs and upscale it to 1080P.
http://www.avsforum.com/ is a good source of info.