I'll need to ask questions re the DLP lamps if I go that route. I do love Mitsubishi but am willing to look at other brands. I've never been an advocate of Plasma, so will either get a DLP or LCD or whatever they're called. In fact, last night I looked at a few - the Blu-Ray image is a little startling to me, especially on older films - it doesn't seem film-like, it seems like the old movie was shot with hi-def cameras - but maybe that's something one gets used to? On the TV I was looking at (a Samsung) the image was brilliant - they were using not the "movie" setting, which I found a bit underwhelming, but something called Blu-smart or something like that - of the image choices I found that one brightest and best. I'll probably go look at some others. As to my dead TV, like most electronics I asked specifically if this was the latest and greatest and was told yes. That was six years ago. Funny, but about six months later it wasn't the latest and greatest - it was "i" instead of "p" and no HDMI inputs, if I'm remembering correctly. So, it's quite outmoded and shortly I suppose I'll have a new TV with all the latest and greatest.
