After another walk through, we have large windows on the N and E side and have to mount the TV on the W wall...room is going to be a light earth tone...still going through color chips...white window casings and baseboards.
From all the info...I think we're going to be leaning towards LCD b/c of the ambient daylight. Just have to choose an action DVD to take w/us to test the TVs in the showroom.
Thanks so much again TFPers, I'll keep you posted on the progress
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