wanna get a 37 inch 1080p HDTV, dunno which one is best ... so much choise.

It all depends on your budget, for 500 quid or so you can get a pretty good samsung lcd, I doubt it is 1080p, but then the very best pictures you can currently get are off 720p plasma's so the res actually means jackshit in terms of image quality. I should know I have a 1080p lcd and a 720p plasma.

Honestly 37inch is too small to really benefit from 1080p anyway, also if you have a nice screen you will need to put it with decent kit, and forget about watching shit like divx movies on it, specially low quality ones it will just show every flaw and will be a waste of £500 or more.

So what I need to know is your budget, how close are you going to be sitting, what are you going to be watching on it, and what kit are you going to be partnering it too.

Currently the best 37 inch tv you can get is a Panasonic TH-37PX70 plasma, its only 720p but will blow any 37inch 1080p lcd out of the water. It's rrp is £1000 but if you look about I am sure you can find it for allot cheaper than that. The only real problem with plasma's are image retention [screen burn] if you watch say sky news or any channel with logos for 10 hours, or play halo 3 for a marathon session, Panasonic are better than most are avoiding this but not perfect.
I would recommend you be very careful and not watch anything for more than 3 hours at a time for the first 100-200 hours use of the tv, and even after then don't do anything with static images for more than 5 or 6 hours at a time, just to be safe.

If you are getting Sky HD to go with it or a HD-DVD or Blueray player then I recommend good cables to go with it, don't listen to Mani and others when they pop on and say a £5 hdmi cable is as good as a £70 one, I have tested them side by side and I KNOW they are not.
If you spend under 1k on a tv then I would say a nice £40 QED hdmi cable will do you fine.

What ever you do, don't buy some piece of shit bush lcd, or some no name brand because you get what you pay for and 90 percent of lcds are utter ****ing shit, I don't give a toss what anyone else says.
If you buy a screen purely based on the fact its cheap and 1080p you are going to end up with a piece of shit, as anyone on this forum will tell you who has listened to me when they bought some Audio/Visual hardware I do know my shit and I am not in any way shape or form a fanboy.

So what I need to know is your budget, how close are you going to be sitting, what are you going to be watching on it, and what kit are you going to be partnering it too. And whatever you do don't go and buy any screen before posting back here with the make and model number for me to check unless you want to end up with a duffer.

Oh I should also point out that even the very best lcds still have major issues with black, motion, detail, and life like colours. Thats why you will notice if you go into a shop like currys all they ever show you on the shitty lcds is some cg film like the incredibles where there is not alot of detail and no natural colours to reproduce. I currently have the best lcd you can get in the Uk, and even that has what I would class as artificial colours and its blacks don't come close to plasma or crt.

Lcds however very rarely suffer from image retention or screen burn, and when they do it is normally very easy to be removed.
They also can be made under 37" which a plasma cannot.

If image quality is the main thing you are looking for [when lets be honest if you are buying a HDTV it sure as **** should be unless you intend to just sit and watch it while it is turned off] then it is plasma you should go. The only two makes to really touch plasma wise are panasonic and pioneer. Pioneer are the better make but more expensive, their new kuro range is just meant to be mind blowingly good.

So at the end of the day do you want a good hdtv, or do you just want some cheap piece of crap so you can brag to your mates you have a HDTV and not give a shit what it looks like or performs like. If the later you will get no help from me at all I am afraid.

Ru mate there are a few things you need to share with us 1st ...

1) What is your budget
2) How many HDMI interfaces do you need - so how many HD sources do you have Sky HD , PS3 , 360 with HD DVD ?
3) How far from the TV will you be sitting ?
4) What is the reason for going for a HD TV - I bought one because I wanted to play my PS3 games in HD ...


Stan is a perfectionist & therefore will demand more from a Home cinema than say myself look at what you have to spend & then Google reviews of both LCD & Plasma TVs in that range .

Stan's right about the Panasonic TH-37PX70 ... its the dogs bollocks & worth the extra couple of hundred quid .

i agree with stan if its a 37" your going for, do yourself a favour and spend the bit extra on a panny px70. I recently got the 42" model and couldnt be happier with it, yes with a plasma theres a slight risk of retention but as stan says the pannys r very good for this, im still in my run-in period and have pld games with huge static bars for like 4hrs straight and have had no retention whatsoever. LCD's just arent anywhere near as good in terms of image quality and handling fast motion so id definately go for a plasma. Just make sure u use some decent run-in settings and the risks r very minimal.

I got a samsung monitor for me new computer instead ... gonna get a hdtv card and play tv through that. *wink wink* Probably the best option for uni anyways.