since you are in the UK you can get one of the panny 42" plasma screens for the top end of your budget. Ive seen the PX70 ones in the sames for 800 at a few places. I have the older model and its a great screen and widely regarded as the best budget plasma on the market.

+1 for the simpsons reference.

Moving on.....I own 3 Samsung flatscreens a 19 lcd/27 lcd and 42" Plasma. The lcd looks really good cause it is smaller, the lack of contrast is not really noticeable until you get to larger sizes. Most large LCD's(32 and bigger) get very blocky and weird looking when showing a lot of blacks/grays. For the record I used to work in a retail store and have spent a lot of time looking at the HD Tv's. LCD's look nice with older systems (16/32/64 bit) more so than plasmas. LCDs are lighter and use less energy. If you are to get an LCD I highly reccomend the Sharp Aquos line. Those things are ungodly.

My 42" Plasma is a thing of beauty, games look vibrant and colorful. Big drawbacks are the power consumption and if you leave a still image on screen it gets pretty bad screen burn, which is reversable but it takes some time. This new years I put on a South Park DVD and when I woke up from passing out most of my friends were gone and the still menu was on. There was some pretty nasty screen burn and we had to run the burn in program to reverse the problem. Keep in mind this image was on screen for a couple hours. HUD's,scoreboards and other things that are on the screen all the time on games will burn in but will dissapear after a few minutes of TV.Upscaled DVDs look amazing. Owning a 42" tv really wows people, everyone compliments it when they first come by our house.

When it comes to 1080P I hear its really nice for games but if you do make sure your screens native resolution is 1920x1080. If the resolution is lower it nullifys the point. I do not advocate any of the HD movie formats, but either way I have heard that 1080i is the same as 1080p due to the fact movies are not shot in full HD.

Get yourself a nce upscaling DVD player(PS3 will do, I dont know how good the 360 is) and forget the lame HD formats.

So which set does the best job at upscaling Wii graphics?

And slightly off topic, are there constellations where the video source, for example a DVD player or and 360/PS3 upscale a picture and then the TV will do that again, resulting in a complete mess? Or do they cooperate? I'm not very happy with my current Samsung and I don't want to spend another €1500 to find out that technology still isn't there.

Not for CRTs, the refresh rate is very important there. A refresh rate of 60 Hz is extremely crappy on a CRT, 75 Hz is the minimum acceptable rate. I know that post was referring to a LCD though.

In general, LCDs have the hardest time upscaling a signal properly (such as the Wii's 480p graphics). DLPs and plasmas can be better at it though you have to do research on each model because the quality varies greatly depending on make and model.

Nothing can touch a CRT for stuff like that but hardly anyone makes them anymore, which is too bad because they offer many qualities that other sets can't touch (black level, color saturation, no native resolution so SD looks as good as possible). 

I bought a 32'' Philips CRT (32PW9551) recently as the first TV I have owned (since moving from my parents' place).

The reasons for buying a CRT were:

- the main uses for it will be watching DVDs and playing Wii, for which a set which can display 480p natively is the perfect choice
- it has component and HDMI inputs, which means I can connect anything to it (supports up to 720p/1080i).
- it was cheaper than LCDs of comparable size.

If you're a Wii-only gamer, don't mind the size limitations (roughly 32" or under), and have a setup where brightness isn't a factor, you cannot beat a CRT HDTV. 

I have to say any type you go any size you go I absolutely love Samsung products. In the past Samsung was a cheap bargain brand that sold crappy equipment at low prices, in the last decade that's changed. They sell good quality gear at good prices.

I own a Samsung LCD Plasm and CRT tv they all run amazingly and the one problem I did have Samsung fixed it within a week.

@ rocketpig.

I am aware many lcds have bad color saturation.

That is why i made the point to say look at cnets top five hdtvs.

also, check out amazons reviews, that may help.

Also, if 120mhz is faster then the human eye can see i guess that ends the ghosting argument against lcds.