If budget really isn't a problem, and you can afford to wait a while, a new technology called SED is on its way. The result of a collaboration between Toshiba and Canon, Surface emitter Electron Display sets use electron emmission technology just like a CRT (so the picture quality is every bit as good), but since the electron emmission is from the surface rather than a gun, SED sets will have a flat screen form factor, something like 4cm or so. These will be the new standard for light, slim, flat screen displays. The picture quality will blow LCD and plasma away (real blacks, very short recovery time for pixels so no blur in fast images), and will use less power than LCD or plasma, too. And they'll be 1920 x 1080. Sorry to complicate your choice even more, but if you can wait these sets really sound like they'll be worth it. From what I've read production has already started, and sets will be available end of this year or early part of next. Pricing should be comparable to plasma, and the first models will be in the 40-50 inch range. If you need something right away, I personally like plasma. CRT is too small and heavy, LCD doesn't have true blacks (neither does plasma but it's better than LCD), and RP sets have too small a viewing angle. As for ED vs. HD, if you can afford it I'd go HD. I compared the Panasonic sets and, while the ED picture looked good, I saw "jaggies" around the text that wasn't there on the HD, and the HD sets seemed to have better depth. Personally I'm waiting, only because I can't currently afford a good plasma HD, especially when SED is less than a year away.

I am having the exact same problem with my pioneer tv, it is almost the exact same model. Any luck getting it fixed? Much thanks

I have the Sony KDL-V40XBR1 which I overpaid for a few months ago. Despite that,I have to say though that every time I watch it whether on Digital cable or on HDTV cable, or with a DVD, I am very glad I have it. As far as plasma vs. LCD flat screen, I don't know which is objectively better in various aspects but I spent a while comparing the pictures on 37" - 45" sets in order to make my own decision. For my own taste and vision, the plasma screens looked too grainy and the glass screens made them too shiney/glitzy for me. Also, the LCDs I viewed had far better pictures off-axis, which was important to me. Of the LCD sets, Sony and Sharp looked the best to me, and in the end, the Sony won based on the picture and the appearance of the set itself. Sony now has an improved version of this set and the old one is about $1,000 less than I paid. If you are young and have a long time to wait for HDTV/flat screens, you will undoubtedly get an even better price.

Raven, these are the sorts of things I've been reading about about SwiftKey. I wonder if the problem is specific to the N7....? I was going to buy the $3.99 version 3 for tablets. Please fix the issue of erasing on tablets (tf300). When pressing the back key to erase the app goes crazy and starts retyping whatever was typed last. This makes the app almost useless since the smallest of mistakes can not be corrected unless by changing back to the Asus keyboard. Solid 5 stars when an update fixes this. The space and backspace doesn't function at certain times on my nexus 7. It's very frustrating. I understand this problem has been stated. I'll be disabling swiftkey until it's fixed. This was the first purchase I made on my Nexus 7 and I have updated everything but this will not take. Brought it to dev friends to see if I am a moron, good news is I am not, bad news is It still doesn't work. Any direction would be greatly appreciated.