My wife and I just bought an HDTV right before the playoffs started. We got an HD cable box from Shaw a few weeks before that and used our regular old TV in the meantime. We found the HD channels (because they were widescreen formatted) to be small and didn't fill the whole of our standard definition TV.
Insofar as what kind of TV to get, I got a lot of conflicting advice from a lot of different people all of whose opinions I respected. After a while you just come to the conclusion that whether you get a plasma, an LCD, a DLP or a projector it's a matter of personal taste and knowing what you'll use the TV for.
The wife and I got a 42" plasma from Costco, the Polaroid PLA-4240. There are practically no reviews on it on the internet but the picture looked good to us. The price was awesome too. It's been going almost four months now with no real complaints (other than some wonky control issues). You get what you pay for and we're happy with what we got.
Digitalhomecanada helped me a lot when I was searching. Good luck on your quest!
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