Learned a valuable lesson today - don't do all your homework from the internet. Went to a magnolia (best buy) today and watched and listed for about 90 minutes.

Impressions:
Every TV in there looks better than what I have.... man. Also demoed the new Sammy and Panny 3D sets and they are quite impressive. Sammy maybe more so, but probably due to better source material (Monsters vs Aliens).

In the sound booth they had only Definitive and Vienna Acoustics in bookshelf. I found it very hard to make quality judgments between the $500 and the $200 speakers - they were different, but I couldn't say if one was better or not. Not in that environment. Maybe the difference would be more obvious at home.