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Samsungs are pretty good LCD TVs, and that $1599 for a 40" is a pretty good price (depending if it's a current or really old model I guess). The Sony 40" is probably the tunerless model, I think FS has it for the same price.

The Bravia 32" for $999 is pretty sweet, I'm actually gonna go check that out today, I need a new 32" TV.

Any new TV should be HDTV, and if you game or watch lots of movies I'd probably suggest getting a 1080p set just to futureproof yourself (though there's lots of things that show 1080p at reasonable viewing distances doesn't add a whole lot).

Rear projection you have to worry about bulbs over time, but you can get a much larger TV for the same price.

For prices of LCDs, I've been reading that LCD panel prices have actually been going up recently, but TV makers are holding the line on prices (increasing TV prices is usually suicide), so the opinion I've been reading is that LCD TV prices will probably stablize for a while, so no big drops in the immediate future. That's what I've read, who knows for sure.