I support Brett's position on this issue. I too bought a standard aspect (36") set; in 10 or 11 years when I'm ready to retire it to (what... the bedroom?), the new wide-format TVs will have long since settled into a bunch of standards for everything and the price will not be an issue. Meantime, with theatre-wide DVD movies, I still get a fairly decent-sized picture... unlike, say, the $5000 Panasonic widescreen, which is a beautiful TV but would show the same movie about 12' in height. ... Mike