Okay you have just started to come to grips with what a flat panel TV is all about and you now understand the difference between plasma and LCD. Well I have news for you: the whole big TV thing is about to change yet again.
In fact by Xmas all current LCD TVs will be close to being old TV technology as vendors introduce 100Htz LCD TVs, as opposed to the current 50Htz LCD TVs. In addition the LCD TV lab jocks have finally worked out how to build controllers that deliver blacks equal to the screen quality found in plasma screens which at a retail level is in freefall as consumers switch to LCD TV.
Also on the horizon is OLED TV technology and possibly Laser TV technology. For the average consumer, the minute differences between flat-screen liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions and plasma display TVs are near-impossible to detect with the naked eye.