My 2 cents worth,
I know this is going to stir up the pot but here it goes, while touring the Corning Glass factory two years ago I was told that they made 70 % of all LCD and50% of all Plasma screens.
Upon moving into our new house 18 months ago I bought a 42" JVC Plasma and two 32" LCD's one JVC and one Visio from Costco. The Plasma is doing good as is the Visio in the MBR. at 13 months 1 month out of warranty the JVC had a band about 2" wide half way across the screen that wouldn't light up, therefore this black bar made it impossible to watch. A local repair shop said the pictials (spelling ?) were burned out and it would cost more than a completely new JVC TV to repair it. I called JVC in Calif. and they confirmed what the repairman said. I went back to Costco and purchased another 32" Visio and am very happy. I think the picture Quality of the Visio's was the same as the JVC. The JVC cost more because it comes with everything PIP,POP, and zillians of in and outputs among other goodies.
Just my opinion!!
Larry
