42pv80h,fine for me as oredi fine tune the color setting,more details at dark scene.u may compare side by side at shop before purchase and need to ask the shop assit u to set std configuration eg:color-50,brightness-50,contrst-50,shrapness-50 for all tv that wanna to compare.insert BD animation Ice Age or IronMan for those tv to compare then u will know the different from here to make yr decission.
all the best.

did u fixed to the wall or on the tv cabinet. how much do they sell the wall bracket - 42' plasma, found some at HN so expensive.

thks for the advice, how high is the panny from the floor? is this depends on the siiting distance or the height of the sofa. 

That's nonsense from that "specialist". ALL HDTVs upscale or they won't be able to fill the whole 720p/1080p panel with a 576i SD source. It's the quality of the upscaling that sets the various TVs and manufacturers apart. An external upscaler MAY be better than the internal one in your TV, but the only way to be sure is to actually test and compare BEFORE you buy it. In many cases, a good 480p component DVD is better than a cheap 1080p HDMI DVD. Your eyes are the only opinion you should trust.

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Added on October 29, 2008, 10:48 am
Whatever looks good to you. Seriously. There is NO single setting that will please everyone so you should set it to your own preference. Don't believe that only properly calibrated sets are "good" sets. Those settings are frequently too dull for the average Malaysian viewer who are used to "Sony" colors.

In general, setting your set to "Cinema" mode and "Warm" setting will get you closest to the 65K standard without much tweaking. It may however be too "yellow" for some folks. That's quite close to a calibrated set with just a few button presses.

I watch my 32" LCD TV from 5' away and feel it's a little small. Sometimes I even sit at 4' away just to get a more cinematic effect. The purpose of a widescreen is to make it feel more like a cinema screen rather than a CRT TV. I'd go for a minimum 32" even in a small room. A number of our forumers put their 42" Pannys in their bedroom even.

Once you boot up your first movie on a large screen and go WHOA at the size, you'll never return to a smaller screen. In fact, after a while, you'll always have the need to go bigger (hence the growing interest in HD projectors now).

Off-topic a bit, but anyone notice once you get used to your home theatre set, how crap our cinemas actually are? I watched Quantum of Solace in Sunway Pyramid and couldn't help noticing how low-resolution, yellow and dull the picture is. The black levels are awful to say the least. And the sound balance between the vocals, surround and subs were totally off. And I was sitting right smack in the centre of the cinema, the sweet spot.

I'm watching my movies at home from now on.

readjusted my settings. I agree, cinema mode gives better blacks and overall better colours.

here are my settings for both cinema and standard

Cinema

Contrast - 75
Brightness 51
Colour 53
Sharpness 50

Standard

C - 75
B - 55
C - 44
S - 50

Both settings are set to warm and colour management and overscan to off.