Panasonic TH-42PHD8UK

Pros: No uneccessary parts, awesome picture, great price

Cons: Buying extra HDMI boards, actually inserting them was no big deal. No in home service, I really wanted to buy a TV from a local reatiler to take advatnage of the repair in the home process. Instead

Summary: I did a ton of reasearch before getting this unit from BestBuyPlasma. I looked at all of the offerings from Best Buy (retail store) and Circuit City. They could not touch the Panasonic for price and quality, besides they all inlcuded stupid speakers and a tuner that I was never going to use.

The set looks great hanging there on the wall (I did have to spend several long hours fishing cable.) with clean simple lines.

I ordered two HDMI boards from eCost for about $123 each. DO NOT ORDER THE HDMI BOARDS FROM BestBuyPlasma!!!! BestBuyPlasma had a nice price on the TV and thier web site states thier poilcy is to have low prices but the HDMI boards are priced at $100 over the MSRP from the Panasonic web site. Just goes to show it pays to shop around.

Setup:
I have one HDMI from my Comcast Motorola HD DVR cable box and the other from a Samsung P-50 HTIB. I plan on hooking up a PC to the unit so that I can do Picture in Picture with web content (my footbal fantasy leauge) and TV.

I live in the Denver CO area and the plasma produces no buzzing noise.

I really wanted to buy a TV from a local retailer to take advatnage of the repair in the home process. Instead if it breaks I will have to ship it to somewhere in CA, so it better not break. Do yourself a favor and buy this TV. I think buying the HDMI boards is a good idea, you will not want to mess around with it once you mount it on the wall. You will not find a better TV for the price.