Yeah, Just means waiting a month more, or possibly seeing the price come down. But that does look like a good buy.
Panasonic are supposed to be the best for HDTVs are they not? So it's worth waiting if I can get a best bang for the buck screen
Their range of Plasmas this year are widely regarded as the best, Samsung + Sony have the best LCD TVs at the moment.
It comes down to what you want in a TV. Its the popular opinion that plasmas give the most 'true' reproduction of an image, however they don't fare well in very bright conditions such as direct sunlight (these days simply pulling the curtains will be enough to alleviate this, and indirect sunlight isn't really a big issue to them now) as they reflect light more than a LCD screen.
LCD also, due to having LED backlighting, has a much lower power consumption. With that said, someone calculated on here that if you were to use a plasma and led backlit LCD for 4 hours a day for every day of the year, the plasma would only cost around £40/year more to run.
Finally the only other 'big issue' people have with plasma is potential screen burn. They are much more susceptible to it than other technologies, however again I feel this is more down to negative opinion passed down from older models that were more prone. Newer plasmas are far less prone than the older models.
That particular model of plasma also has an outstanding response rate and as a result is very suitable for gaming.
LCD also has its fair share of issues. Black levels are generally not as good (though much better than they used to be) as plasma, backlighting is often not uniform, resulting in lighter and darker patches of the screen and the response rate
tends to be slower on LCD.
With all things considered, i made the jump from LCD to Plasma (in fact, i got the 42ST50) with my latest upgrade (image burn was too big a concern for me when i bought my old TV 5 years ago) and I haven't regretted it at all. It's an outstanding TV. I watched Casino last night which was the acid test; 3 whole hours of black bars across the screen and not a hint of image retention when it finished, so i'm happy.
