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Well as the vast majority of content is still SD I'd say its a valid thing to consider. If we're basing a desicion purely on HD quality then plasma still comes out on top anyway.

Not at all, I've never seen an LCD come close to a Plasma for SD quality.

I'd go with Plasma for the simple fact they tend to give you a much better picture. This will especially be the case with SD content, LCD screens bring any imperfections out much more so that a plasma will. I look forward to the day I can relegate my LCD to a bedroom TV and get a decent plasma in the lounge.

Oh I totally agree, when you can afford a £1500 TV I'd have thought its not such a massive problem though. Off Topic, are you at bournemouth uni or is that your home? Just noticed its set as your location.

I have to say the power thing is one thing I've never really looked at. Is it really such a big difference as to make it something you'd base a decision on?

For the price your looking to pay and what you want I'd say you couldn't do much better than the latest range of Panasonic Plasmas. They're a couple of hundred under your budget, look good, excellent in both SD and HD and pretty much top of the range. Lifespan/image burn really isn't as much of an issue as people make out, I'd absolutely go for a plasma if I were you.

Those Samsung TV's with an RGB picture are utter crap. I don't if the digital port on the Cube is disabled but a properly functioning component cable will give you a much much better picture with that set. Well worth the money for the difference that cable will give you.

Yes I think everyone should post their setups, always good to see how other people have there stuff.

Oh its the 52, I did consider one but then the extras of the 500 swayed me towards that. Still an absolutely stunning set, you should take the HD sticker off though! Hows the Cube on it? I got rid of my Cube before I got mine so never tested it out, old stuff like my Saturn, N64 etc look really good though so I imagine the Cube is great.

Chances are you current aerial will work fine, I've never known one not work with a freeview box. All my mates who have bought them have never had problems picking up a signal and both houses I used my box in worked fine with 20 year old roof aerials.

Hey matt, when can we see some pics of your screen? I've been wanting to see it all week now!

Would you be able to post some pics of that? Also do you have a spec sheet for it? For some reason I've never been able to see a decent picture of one and I've only ever seen them boxed up really. What do you think of it anyway?

Who me?! With TV's that good I'd certainly like to! Seriously though, the Panasonic 52's are brilliant TV's. Only really bettered by their 500 series.

I'd certainly get the Panasonic over the Sony, but then they're both better than the Samsung. With the Panasonic being slightly cheaper it really is an excellent buy.

The only GCSE's that matter are Maths and English, everything else is just numbers.

My dream garage would have to have the following: Mercedes SLR Ford GT Ferrari F430 Bugatti Veyron

yeah, that Gremlin is brilliant! In fact all of those figures are pretty cool.

As long as you buy a half decent one and don't do anything stupid with it then a Plasma would be fine. I'd have had a plasma myself but they were too expensive and probably just that little bit too big.

Heres mine, my PC is kept just a bit back from this on the left hand side so its all wired up rather than wireless.

100hz and progressive scan are two different things but if your buying a decent set its quite likely that it will support a progressive signal. Its definately worth checking that it will support progressive before you buy though.

What TV do you have DiemetriX? Its very hard to give any proper advice not knowing a bit more about it.

Unless of course you choose one of the 4:3 resolutions to use.

Screen burn is very rare in plasmas now, with any half decent models it just doesn't happen. The two traditional problems with the screens have been burn in with plasmas and response times with LCDs. Really they're pretty equal in their pros/cons, its all down to your own personal preference as to what you want to buy. Personally I like the picture of a plasma better, but they were just too expensive for me and I went down the LCD route.

Well it all depends on what monitor and tv you have. Purely the size factor would put me off using a monitor as I have a large TV. If yours are around equal size then its £20 well spent if you ask me.

Completely depends what size your after and how fussy you are. The smaller sized Samsungs can be bought for under £500 and they're the best of the cheaper screens. Your not going to get a large high quality screen with that budget though.