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Am I the only person who is worried about buying the wrong stuff or not getting required results from an HDTV LCD/Plasma?

I have a slight advantage in that I can wait until June/July time before comitting myself to any deals. As I am moving house and Telewest do not operate in the new area, I am probably going to switch to Sky+HD.

I work in I.T anyway, and have had many chances to set up plasma's and LCD. Personally for my use LCD's just edge it but this is a matter of preference anyway. I can't say I have been impressed with either of these for displaying standard moving/static images.

Anyway I digress; back to topic. I think I have settled on a 32" HDTV LCD. i will be sitting, at an estimate about 1 and a half to 2 metres away. I am a bit concerned that SD and 'normal' DVD's will be low quality while HD will be amazing quality. In reality, there won't be much HD content about at first and I am concerned about having to put up with inferior quality pictures for quite some time. As it is now on a normal decent TV, football broadcasts are 'blocky' and sometimes 'tear', and I can only imagine what this would look like on an LCD I haven't seen response times listed on most online tech sheets either, being a gamer though I am assuming this is highly important to stay sub 8ms?

One last point which is maybe related. When I have the Sky+HD plugged in via HDMI - this will theoretically give me great pictures on HD content. How do DVD's work in the grand scheme of things? I am getting a PS3 with in-built blu-ray player when it releases but there is no confirmed date as of yet...is there a way to get standard DVD's with a 'normal' DVD player to somehow look a bit more 'HD' quality; will this require a separate bit of hardware (a whole new DVD player etc.)