I have been surfing your forums, soaking in the great wealth of knowledge from every angle, every bias, and to be honest I am still in no way closer to making my decision between LCD and Plasma. (Even after Naroush's FANTASTIC rundown of the two options.) I know this must become a tired and overworn question, but I would really appreciate a much more, non-fanboy straight forward best pick with the following household conditions and my own personal concerns... I feel this is the only way that I can feel more at ease with my soon to be LARGE purchase of a Flat Panel, PS3, and Bose? surround plus other theatrical elements for my new home theatre room. (Been saving for this for a long time, so it's really important to get my decision right!! any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!
First the conditions...
Large finished basement area, with lots of wood planked wall space... possibility for ZERO background light. Some akward wall angles and an opening to the stairwell area, door closes at the top.
Looking at an approximate viewing distance of 10 ft.
Now the concerns...
I know that a perfect dark situation should have me leaning towards a Plasma... however these concerns have me a little twisted...
#1 Burn in obviously and the "breaking in period" ... I am planning on doing a great deal of gaming, so obviously permenant damage is a concern. I am also concerned that if I was not to "break in" my plasma correctly, I would age the phosphors unevenly. Also, over time, is there a possibility of some portions of the plasma eventually aging faster? even so slow that the human eye would not be able to deceifer the difference from the date of purchase?
I really am wanting the best picture on the market that hasn't crossed that "excessive spending" line. Well, maybe just a bit 
#2 Response time in LCD's... when you say "it may jitter, even with 120htz and 4ms response times" is it really noticable? and those companies boasting .1 ms response times, is that an exageration or have they actually almost eliminated response times in LCD now?
#3 Blu-Ray player vs. the PS3 integrated player... is there a difference? is it noticable? and at what price?
#4 For those of you familiar with high intensity visualization programs, like "G-Force".. (Google it if you are curious) If I was to play something like this on both panels, for say... a few hours, say at a party or something. Would this have adverse effects? work the internal processor too hard? I am on an old school CRT monitor on my computer now, so haven't had the chance to test it out myself.
I will leave it at that for now... don't want too big of an essay haha.
Any input on any or all of these concerns, and suggestions of recommended setups would be unreal! I'm entering a new HD era, and I want to step on the right foot 
Blaze
#1- I'm not a t 100% on this one. What I ahve heard is taht for a burn in to occur, you need to have a static image on the TV for over 10% of the total runtime. i.e. If your TV was running for 100 hours watching shows and then you left the same image for 10 hours, chances are it'll stain . Again I'm not 100% on this one, just a thing I heard.
#2- The shortest LCD response time for TVs on the market is 4 seconds. For LCD monitors (computer) it's 2. The 0.1ms is sometimes what they write on plasma pannels but the truth is plasma has no response time. Unless you wanna calculate the speed of light applied to a circuit of roughly 2 feet...
#3- Aesthetics first. Some people want to have a blu-ray player look, not a gaming console look on their shelves. Second would be noise. I believe the PS3 is a tad noisier then a blu-ray player but that's no biggy. Third is the capacity to decode the lossless audio track from the blu-ray disc. It is still unable to do so but updates should be on their way soon enough since it's a software concern, not hardware. Appart from these the PS3 is the most upgradeable player since it features wireless connectivity that allows ipdates and media streaming and a hard drive for media storage. All this appart from the obvious advantage of being able to play video games. PS3 with 80GB hard drive goes for 399$ and the now discontinued metal gear solid bundle which includes the game and the old console (60GB/4 usb ports vs 2/PS2 compatibility) which if found, last retailed for 499$.
#4- All you need is a good graphic card. Outputting full HD on dual monitors is no easy task. Either that or SLI two graphic cards. an 8800 should be up for the task iin my opinion. And I googled G-Force. I might just get it for myself 
Looks like a good concept. One last addition is that a lot of TV's have usb ports allowing you to do custom slideshows with background music off a usb thumb or a hard drive and the Samsung 7 Series even boasts video compatibility.
Hope this helps.
