Perhaps we're going about this from the wrong angle. What are you looking for in a television? How large is your living room? Do you have room for a rear projection TV? Are you dead set on mounting it on the wall?

If I were buying an HDTV today (and had a reasonably high budget), I'd either get one of the 37" panels capable of 1080p native, or a Rear Projection DLP set that could handle 1080i natively. While they've worked many of the bugs out of plasmas, they're still likely to burn in and have far lower resolution than the alternatives. They sure do look prety in stores though.

Matthew