LCD, Plasma, DPL, or Flat Screen

I've been looking at televisons. Yes, it is time, time to replace the steam powered 1995 model 25" Zenith with no available imputs except for the composite.

It's seems like the pricing on tube flat screen televisions are dropping rapidly. Fry's Electronics has on display, a 37" Sony Vega. This behemoth is priced...are you ready...$899. Thats gotta be somewhere in the range of $500-$700 less than the same TV was a year ago. Pricing is good, so what's the problem?

Problem is, I don't know what to buy! Do you go with a nice 32" Panasonic or Toshiba with SVideo, component, RCA inputs, pay under $400 for it and then upgrade to an HD set in a year or two? Or do you go with something like a tube type HDTV ready 30" set that's around $750 and sports an incredible picture with every input and output that you could want? Or then again howabout that Sony that is so big it could fill your peripheral and make the hockey puck look the size of a dinner plate?

If you are shopping, better look around. It's a tough choice right now.