I recently bought the
Samsung LN-R409 40-inch LCD and I think it's beautiful with my high def channels and dvd movies.
The only downfall (which isn't the tv's fault) is that my cable provider Charter, only has a handful of Hi-def channels, so the picture on standard channels isn't always that great because the tv is looking for a nice hi-def signal and when it gets a crappy one, it can't do much with it. I hear it does that with all hi-def tvs
One other thing that you left out about the tvs is the lifespan. LCDs have twice the lifepsan of a plasma, however a typical plasma TVs have a life span of 20,000 to 30,000 hours, which equates to at about 20 years of usage if you have the set on for 4 hours a day. The lifespan of an LCD TV is typically 50,000 to 60,000 hours, or about 40 years running 4 hours daily. If you think of it that way, most of the tvs that I've had have been upgraded within 5 years, so if it lasts 20 years, that should be beyond it's need
