If you watch regular tv in 4:3 mode (gray bars on the side) they burn in
the screen (on a plasma).
If you don't, you either get distortion (short fat people, intolerable
to me) or the edges are clipped.
I could live with the clipping but the Zoom mode enlarges the
compression artifacts of SDTV making them very annoying.
We watch mostly regular tv still (children's shows, PBS, HGTV, TLC,
BBC). Some of those have HD channels but I believe they will still have
black bars most of the time because the content was created in 4:3
originally.
I am thinking again of exchanging ours for a LCD which does not get burn
in (or not as much). What do you think of that?
By the way, we didn't get an HDTV mainly to watch HD but to have a
thinner set in our small living room.
We have a Panasonic 42 inch plasma TH-42PC77U from Costco.
It's similar to the TH-42PX77U.
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