1. If you want the best picture and a pretty cool design you should go for the Pioneer. The XD versions have digital outs, so it's easy to connect it to your BS4. The best looking 42" Pioneer is the 428XD (not the 4280 with the rounded speaker).

2. If you wan't a design tv for a good value, you should buy the Loewe Connect (really like the design of the white one).

3. The Beovision 7 with the 7.4 speaker is the best looking tv I've ever seen in my life. It has a good picture too, but like you said, it's maybe a bit overpriced.

I personally think you should choose between Plasma and LCD first, because thats a big difference in the picture. I you watch normal movies or photo's I should go for Plasma. If you like to watch films like Ice Age and play games on a PS3 or whatever, you should go for LCD. 

 Btw, Sony has launcht his first Oled screen and Panasonic and Pioneer launch their new (full HD) plasma screens in a few months, so you could also wait a few months to get the best...

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This is gonna be a new Pioneer. It's 9mm thick !!! That's WAF 😕

If you prefer to stay with the B&O brand then I would suggest buying a second-hand Avant 32 RF DVD if you can find one. It sounds like the screen size would be just right for your living space and the picture quality is the best in its class. I recently bought a 7-40 with 7-2 speaker but its not a great TV and definitely does not offer value for money. Pioneer will give you the best picture quality and of course you will have full HD and lots of connection capabilities but it depends if you want to change brands as I said. Definitly plasma over LCD. Very difficult times at the moment buying a TV with B&O. I just don't think they are up to it. Both the BV9 and BV7 are extremely overpriced for technologies that change so quickly.

Simon.

Beobird:

1. If you want the best picture and a pretty cool design you should go for the Pioneer. The XD versions have digital outs, so it's easy to connect it to your BS4. The best looking 42" Pioneer is the 428XD (not the 4280 with the rounded speaker).

2. If you wan't a design tv for a good value, you should buy the Loewe Connect (really like the design of the white one).

3. The Beovision 7 with the 7.4 speaker is the best looking tv I've ever seen in my life. It has a good picture too, but like you said, it's maybe a bit overpriced.

I personally think you should choose between Plasma and LCD first, because thats a big difference in the picture. I you watch normal movies or photo's I should go for Plasma. If you like to watch films like Ice Age and play games on a PS3 or whatever, you should go for LCD. 

 Btw, Sony has launcht his first Oled screen and Panasonic and Pioneer launch their new (full HD) plasma screens in a few months, so you could also wait a few months to get the best...

 

 

the screen launched at CES dont move the game on much. Pioneer has a 1 in thick plasma(who cares) panasonic brought in 24fps- nothing to write home about there!

Oled for the short term- forget it. Sony have yet to make a decent tv anyway. realistically oled in pricing and qualkity terms is 3/4 years away

Surely these ultra thin screens don't hold the electronics that power them behind them, do they? I am guessing that there is an additional box of tricks that has to be hidden away somewhere.

Simon.