I'm not a sony freak either, but I'd recomend the wega too, as far as reputation they're the best out there. I've got one of the 24'' ones, and it's been great so far.

As I've been starting down the road of unviersal remotes this week, I've got to recomend making sure everything you buy has "discrete codes" available. For those who don't know what they are (me, 48 hours ago), they're remote codes which perform one action instead of toggling a state. A seperate code for power on from the code to power off, for instance. The other example is selecting inputs. This will make macros which can actually perform valuble functions possible. I got a ReplayTV this weekend, and I'm learning the immense value of JP1 enabled remotes, even though I havn't built the interface cable yet.

Good Luck, and enjoy the new TV.

Matthew