StainlessSteelRat wrote:
DCA wrote:
My post was just an up to date assessment which I hoped would be
useful to someone poised to buy.
I'm thinking of getting the Sharp LC46XD1E, which they have for a
nice price :-)

Having looked at quite a few LCDs, I just don't think the picture
cuts it. Looks synthetic - almost like people are computer
generated. I love the vivid and powerful plasma pictures.
Go on, take the 50" panny, 4 " more for £300 less (and you can pay
before November interest free)
I saw it on demo with an HD player, and it looked OK. I've got this
perennial worry with plasma about screen burn and screen life. I see
Digital-Point have got the Sharp with a 3 year warranty as well... I
don't know what to do!

Screen burn? Unless you are sitting with static images for LONG
periods, it is not an issues - and it was NEVER more of an issue than
with CRT's (I mean look at screens in arcades and you'll see it is
only yhr static part of the picture that burns).
Panasonic have shown their fully effective life to be 60K hours - some
20 years with 5 hours use a day. When it reaches this point it will
not die, it will be less brilliant than before (brightness)
LCD,s have a lamp life of approx the same - when it reaches this
point, it will be dead - completely!
So where is the indecision?
LCD looks good - plasma at that size looks awesome! spend the saving
on D&G warranty extension if you're worried!

Is that Panasonic 1080P?


No - it downscales a little on a 1080 feed.
It is 720p
From what I have read, 1080p is only 540 lines + 540 lines interlaced.
720 is better for fast moving images (and 1080 for static images)
Read this lot which explains it fairly well
http://tinyurl.com/l54f7