Suggestion:
As far as I know only Pioneer and Vizio are getting out of the plasma TV market. But Panasonic is going to keep producing them. The main reason that some companies are moving away from plasma is that they do cost more to manufacture than LCD TV's. I'd say go ahead and buy one of the Panasonic X Series. I own a Hitachi plasma TV and my sister owns a Sony LCD TV, in my opinion the picture quality and performance of plasma is far superior to LCD. The colors on plasma are sharper than on LCD. As far as performance, when watching movies with fast moving scenes such as the Light Saber Duel between Obi Wan and Anakin on Revenge of the Sith, plasma technology doesn't suffer from blurring as it does on LCD. The only drawback to plasma sets is that since the screen has a protective shield on it, plasma does best where not a lot of light will interfere with the picture.
