I highly recommend Samsung panels for HD. I currently have 3 of them from various model lines and they are all excellent. I do recommend looking at their lines with LED backlighting if you can afford them, you get much better black levels with LED backlighting.

As for the 120/240Hz, etc etc. Chances are you won't see the difference.

Definitely get 1080p, especially if the panels you are looking at are larger than 40".

Oh, you'll also want to get either a Blu-Ray or upconverting DVD player when you buy the TV. Otherwise your DVDs will look like crap on the new display.

With current prices I'd definitely just go with a decent Blu-Ray player.

I'm planning to try a different input for this tv, but I suspect it's just not a very good tv. (It was cheap. You get what you pay for.) I expect I'll be buying a Samsung and a Blu-ray, sometime this summer when I have a little more spare change.

My new tv was cheap (on sale at target!) but I can definitely tell even the regular channels look nicer viewed through my cable box and the hdmi connection as opposed to going through the connectors on my TiVo. Sigh. But it all looks big and pretty. Steph, warning--being in a big store makes TVs look smaller, so you think you need more. Then it looks bigger once you get it home. Compare sizes to friends with similar size apartments or distances to tv viewing.

Oh. So the system (eta: iTunes) just hides it then?

If you look in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/TV Shows/ you'll see both copies of the TV show you downloaded.

Don't listen to meara, she is silly. Go buy the biggest one in the store.

We have a 47" in the living room, Kristin disagrees that a 60" would be even better.

I got a 42" tv! It's plenty big! It's just in the store, it seemed kinda small.

Kristin disagrees that a 60" would be even better.

I'm guessing she doesn't want to have to stand on the porch in order to see the entire image.

I bought my 30-something inch highdef TV from Radio Shack. It was the biggest TV they had that I could carry on the train.