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Plasma displays are more forgiving of bad signals.
In our house we have a plasma and an LCD tv. The LCD looks best with good quality signals (DVDs etc) but shows up the bad quality form the cable digital signals. Plasma deals with the bad quality signals better, but is not as good with DVDs.
Make sure your set is HD ready, with an HDMI input. If you will be watching HD broadcasts, DVDs and HDDVDs or BRDs in the future I will go LCD. If you are not that bothered with getting the sharpest picture, or have a poor signal from cable or sky, plasma will flatter and hide the grainy or noisy pictures better.
And with TVs now, you generally get what you pay for. Bigger names (Sony, Hitachi, JVC, Panasonic etc) tend to be safe choices. I have heard bad things about the build quality and reliability of smaller, lesser known makes. It seems a big generalisation to me, but I was also warned to keep clear of Korean manufacturers for the same reason.
Make sure you audition the Tvs you are interested in, you may find your preference is not the same as magazine reviews and such.
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