After going through many rounds of survey to compare between LCD and Plasma, finally my choice still go to Plasma. My observation was better PQ, natural & realistics colours and also clear & crisp fast moving pictures.

Again, some of my friends think LCD is better but at the end it still comes to individual preference.

Initially I've the similar thought that "plasma is out dated". But after I did the real close comparison and many rounds of survey, then I believe what my eye have seen is the right choice.

That's why I have just bought plasma right after a few round of survey........

So far very satisfied with plasma performance. Another friend of mine initially also thinking to get LCD but changed the mind after seeing Plasma.

During my search for a HDTV, I also discovered almost all showrooms will not hook up HDTV with Astro and they will tell you thousand of reasons why it's not there. They are afraid to turn down your appetice of getting HDTV.

Instead of letting showroom promoter to influence what they want you to watch, I have recorded some channels from Astro into DVD disk, some digital photos converted into DVD quality slide show format and recorded into DVD disk as well, then I go to the shop and play the disks on LCD and plasma HDTV. Also tried at different brand and model. Right after that, your naked eye will give you the right answer. You could repeat the same process in another 1-2 different shops. At the end you will receive pretty consistent answer of whether to chose LCD or Plasma TV, which model & etc.

Yes, Astro picture quality is definitely can't match with DVD quality disk but at least we want to know at what acceptable level if showing on HDTV. Overall I could say it's OK and the quality will vary from one channel to channel. But for those live telecast sport programs, it's always have better picture quality. We believe Astro has done certain level of compression.

In fact the thrill of having a big scree TV, at least > 40" screen is the effect of feeling more engaging and more invovled. It's also making your eye feel more pleasant to watch the programs/movies. Another biggest plus is if you have a lot of digital photos, you could compile it into DVD quality slide show format and play on DVD player, it's like enlarge your digital photos to the biggest size that we've ever seen with great picture quatlity. Recall back all the past sweet memories...........

Nice to know that.

But I still think to burn Astro programs into DVD disk will be the most convenient way to check on the HDTV performance since you're able to load it on any DVD players and play on any HDTV as you wish. Besides, you're using the same source all the time then it's much easier to make comparison in terms of PQ, clearity for fast moving actions & etc.

Different people will have different selection criteria and taste. It's better for you to conduct your own survey.

For me, I've selected Plasma HDTV as my final choice based on PQ, color and motion clearity.