JT’s comments from a so called designer of broadcast equipment, makes me doubt his self
proclaimed credentials, based on his LCD comments,  NO mention of viewing angle fall off,
NO mention of visiible blur,  especially at right angles to the viewer,  I recently watched an
english first division game on a Sony Bravia 240hz
46”  and on at least 7 occassions balls being
kicked at high velocity were smearing badly showing two or three trailing images of the ball,
this observance has been noted on more than one
once on other current model sets such as
samsung ect, its inherent in the LCD limitations
JT also failed to mention that SED is sitting in the
wings ready to come forth from Canon, when
the current depression is over,  if JT is looking for
CRT comparisons its there,

Paul - I am frequently removing spammer posts and banning certain users. I apologize for the distraction it’s causing.

Jason, is it possible to have posts removed from the EH site?  I’ve noticed that spammers have been hitting the comments section with greater frequency lately.

If Electronic House can remove the posts after they are put up, it might discourage them from posting again.

If there is no way of removing a post, maybe a spam reporting option, so spam can be hidden?

I will take a good Panasonic Plasma with THX anyday over the other models. They just plain look good, and works!

As a designer of “broadcast” equipment, I can tell you that the terms 1080i and 1080p are really meaningless with today’s technology.  LCD’s, Plasmas, and even DLP’s don’t “scan” the image either interlaced (i) or progressively (p) like the old CRT equipment did.  Those terms apply only to analog “scanning” technology, although you still see the old terminology used in some advertising. 
  Modern (MPEG, DVD, ATSC) television signals are characterized by pixel count (640x480, 1920x1080. etc,), and refresh rate (24 FPS, 30 FPS, 60 FPS, etc.).  Picture information is sent in the form of frequency, phase, amplitude, bit rate, and pixel information, rather than analog “brightness and color at a point in the scan”.
  Of course when the digital signal is converted to or from an analog signal, the “old fashioned” terms of bandwidth, interlaced, progressive, etc. associated with analog signals are applicable to that analog signal.  To my knowledge, there is no commercially available program material transmitted in 1080p format.  1080p signals are usually generated from digital or lower quality analog material.
  As far as the display technology, no modern method employs “scanning”.  Plasma is most like the old CRT’s in that colored phosphors on the display surface are excited to “glow” by an electric current.  In CRT’s a negatively charged electron beam is scanned onto the phosphors of the picture tube.  In plasma TVs positively charged atomic nuclei (plasma) is used to excite the phosphors.  The difference is plasma TVs are not scanned, but rather excite each individual pixel of phosphor continuously.  Discounting the quantum nature of plasma, the phosphors can be excited to a continuously variable level of brightness (analog).  Unfortunately over time, the phosphors will degrade in their ability to emit light, and the sealed glass plasma containers (pixels) may leak.  This can cause image burn in, and gradual picture quality degradation.  Still, plasma TV’s most closely resemble the picture quality of a good, flat face CRT.  Within the size, bulk, and aging limitations of a good (professional quality) CRT, most modern displays are not as good in terms of sharpness, clarity, contrast, and brightness.
  LCD’s function as a “light valve”, by continuously varying the amount of light passing through each pixel (analog).  LCD’s require a backlight, usually a florescent panel.  These panels last a long time, but can eventually dim or even burnout. 
  DLP’s use tiny mirrors to reflect light.  They very the brightness of pixels by the amount of time they are “on” compared to the amount of time they are “off”.  Since this time interval can be varied over a wide range (digitally), the human eye is fooled into perceiving that any particular pixel is dimly or brightly lit.
  Neither LCD’s nor DLP’s are susceptible to image burn in.  Most DLP’s use a high intensity projection lamp and a wheel with colored filters to project a full screen image of that particular color.  Again the images are displayed sequentially, so fast that the human eye is fooled into believing it is watching a full-color picture.  Of course these high intensity light bulbs can grow dim overtime, and will usually require replacement during the life of the television.
  A new type of DLP television that does not use of a projection lamp or spinning color wheel shows great promise.  It uses separate very special red, green, and blue LEDs that can switch on and off over 2,000 times per second!  These LEDs are also unlikely to dim or fail during the life of the set.  Since these sets display 100% of the light from the LED when it is on (as opposed to one color from the projection lamp/filter wheel combination) these sets are capable of very bright and wide-ranging color display’s, even beyond most currently available program material.

My advice, if you’re looking for a small picture (up to 50 inches) one of that new generation LCD’s is the way to go.  For larger picture displays, it looks like these LED DLP’s will be the future.