Flat Screen Recommendations: 50 to 60 inch

I agree completely with Allchemie - my mother-in-law just got an LED LCD, and it isn't even close to my Panasonic plasma. Also agree that the Samsung plasmas are quite good.

Any thoughts on the LG 60" plasma at Costco? Hard to tell under store lighting but it looked darned good when I stared at it for a minute or two last night. $1299! That's an incredible price but I have no idea how it compares to the other plasmas mentioned above as I didn't compare with the dozens of tv's they had.

Looked at them all. The best one for the money IMO is Samsung's PNC8000 63" plasma. It does make a little buzzing from the front of the screen though.

Many other TVs are good too but Samsung's new line will be very hard to beat at any realistic prices. Pioneer Elite and Panasonic's new ones are pretty good too. But the samsung is cheaper. Bought mine for $2500 and it came with a free blu ray player and 3d glasses (3d is a novelty IMO but it was "free").

I watched the Superbowl on a friend's Samsung LED backlit LCD set. It was excellent for the game, but we then watched Glee and the picture was just plain weird and, I think, wrong. It had that videotape quality that the soap operas have, or used to have back when. My friend said they got used to it, but I'm not sure I'd want to. Don't buy one of these sets until you spend some time watching a variety of programming on it and are comfortable that you like the way the picture looks. For me, I'll stick with plasma.

Dont skimp on size, my viewing distance is about 10 feet and we love our Samsung 63 inch Plasma, the Panasonic plasma viera line are highly recommended by home theater magazine's last TV review
good luck on your search.