OT: buying a plasma/flat screen, any ideas on the best one? Options

[meares]

i'm about to buy a plasma...i'm doing some research, but wanted know of any personal exper. in your purchases...which ones to buy/stay away from.....

[Katmanken]

I read the Saturday Nov 12 Wall Street Journal article last week.

They said buying the plasma/flat screen is the tip of the iceberg...

In fact, they called the article "The Elephant in the Living Room"

Cited needing $250 worth of cable$

And up to $675 to run the cable$

They come with small sound systems necessitating buying a BIG $500-$1000 $urround $ound to go with the plasma/flat screen...

AND the $15 more a month upgraded cable service

Then the TIVO don't work well with the screen so you need about $400 for a special HI-D digital recorder with TIVO..

And the wall mount bracket is $200

And fights on who gets to use the screen for X-box, News, whatever

And regular DVD's look like crap- 480 lines on a 1080 line screen

And the colors are adjusted off so you have to pay to get that tweeked.......

And a 1-5 second channel surfing delay....

AND...

Not a very complementary article....

Ken