I have a Pioneer Plasma, and a Samsung DLP. The DLP is about 1/2 the price of a plasma, and about 1/2 the size of a regular tube TV. Unless you plan to hang it on the wall & run all the wiring behind the wall, I'd go with the DLP set due to price & a picture quality that is pretty close to what I get on the Plasma.

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