Lee,

Plasma's are not actually all that, the best plasma to go for is a presentation plasma as they are built for refreshing PC screens of 800x600 or 1024x768 etc compared to DVD 625 so and so, however check this site out for a plasma v lcd quick overview, as you can see, LCD takes 10 out of 13 wins and only just loses out on one because of current LCD screen size, however this is continuing to get bigger and bigger and 45" LCDs are currently available:

http://www.flattvpeople.com/tutorials/lcd-vs-plasma.asp

The problem I had was spending a few thousand quid and only gaining 10" (32" to 42") hence the reason I would suggest going to a projector instead which allows you to keep what you have now for normal TV and run a pj for quality TV and DVD etc. If you do a search you will often find a lot of project owners are ex-plasma owners who, after seeing the pj in action just had to go for a 4 x 42" plasma screen in one! I have it set up in my average size front room to which is 13.5' x 13.5' as per the image below:


pic with the flash on (and the screen running in 4:3 instead of 16:9 hence the overlap at the top DOH!)