I'll second philipb's comments, I have a 9607 and it's fantastic, can't find a fault with it and it looks miles nicer than the other cheap plastic looking efforts!
I hope its as good as you say, as I get mine on Saturday to replace my Sony 36" FS70.
There is a short review in this months 'What Hifi'.. It was quite a favourable review, but not as much as I hoped, as they only gave it 4 stars. In contrast, they gave the Panasonic and Hitachi 5 stars.
The other thing you will learn is to ignore magazine reviews, as I found that all of them give false reviews and your best source of information should be this forum!