LCD and plasma TVs are becoming increasingly popular, costing between $1,000 and $3,000.
If you have that budget in mind, something I’ve wanted to do for a long time suddenly becomes viable: buy a projector and mount it on your ceiling. Of course, only the very high-end projectors will do the 1920×1080 that 1080i and 1080p do, but 1024×768 is very doable for under $1,000, and the difference in resolution shouldn’t be all that noticeable. And then you’ve got something like a 100″ screen. Wow-a-wee-wow!
The caveat, of course, is that few (if any?) projectors include tuners, so you’d have to set up a PC for that, something like a Mythbox. But one can be put together for around $500, and that naively assumes that you don’t already have a spare computer with a tuner card or two.
I have a very nice LCD projector. I don’t know if it does HD though. I don’t have a large wall to use it against either. Technically it belongs to the company I work for of course and it is for work. I should look into the specs though just so I know them.