I appreciate everybody's comments. It looks like I'll need to spend more time doing research and comparision shopping (there goes the idea of getting the TV by Superbowl). Yes, the TV will be in the basement, but front projection would be overkill for what I'm looking for. My other concern is the lack of high definition programming. I don't anticipate my cable company offering HiDef anytime soon. When I asked about it, they seemed to confuse HiDef with digital. Its an extremely small cable company, basically a Mom & Pop operation. I know over-the-air is available, but its on the UHF frequency, and I'm not sure about signal quality, since I'm 40 miles from the transmitters.
The other option I'm toying with is staying with a traditional direct view CRT TV, but get something around 36" in size. Depending on how I want to arrange the room layout, a quality 36" set may be fine.
I already have a 5.1 channel home theater sound system, but my 27" TV is kinda lacking in drama.
