[thxgoon]

In my experience a lot of the plasma problems are overblown. Unless you live in a really reflective environment you're not likely to notice the reflections. Any plasma today has anti glare coatings that will make it much less reflective than your current wega tube. Burn in is an issue as someone mentioned if you're watching a lot of SD content with the bars on the sides but now most plasmas use a grey bar that approximates an average luminocity and greatly reduces the chances of it. Burn in occurs as a process and goes away with time so if it begins to happen you can catch it early on and take steps to eliminate it. From experience with plasmas though, this is really a non issue. As far as life span, it's been a few years but I remember Panasonic rating their plasma sets at 60,000 hours until half life. Meaning that after 60,000 hours of continuous average use it would be half as bright as the day you bought it which is a pretty long time! IMHO I like the picture of plasma over LCD. LCD's are bright and they do 'pop' but I think this gives them an artificial quality. Plamsa appear to have better greyscaling and do a better job at reproducing subtle hues in colors to me anyways. Good luck, let us know what you decide to do. I don't think you can go wrong either way.