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The thing to understand is that no screen is perfect and many of the problems that were associated with LCDs or Plasmas have been reduced or solved. You've made your choice so asking which is best isn't going to do you much good now. Personally, I think you made the right choice going for a plasma.

I use a 50" plasma myself. I have used LCD screens in the past as well, but I prefer the look of the picture on a plasma screen as, to my eyes, it's more natural. Don't get hung up on 'screen burn' either. As long as you don't have the screen brightness and contrast turned all the way up, it shouldn't be an issue. Factory settings for screens are usually crazy because they are calibrated to look good in a brightly lit showroom. As long as you keep the settings sensible and watch as much tv as you play games you won't see screen burn.

Some screens still suffer from image retention that lasts for an hour or so if you have had a bright static image onscreen for a few hours, but if you watch a bit of tv this will disappear. I worried about screen burn when I first got the screen because of what i had read on forums but I don't even think about screen burn or image retention now and I have had many gaming sessions lasting hours on end.