I am surprised that Mitsubishi has still devoted a significant amount of time and effort in to still developing and selling RP DLP sets since pretty much all the other brands(Samsung, Toshiba etc.) who did offer them at one time or another in a similar style eliminated them from their product line awhile ago. Mitsubishi is about the only one left that I am aware of, still selling this type of technology in an RP format. It is kind of unfortunate since because customers were so preoccupied with the "thinness" aspect of monitors, LCD eventually prevailed and although a similar type picture, DLP sets were always a much better value, especially in the larger screens.
Of course, DLP is still very common in FP with Mitsubishi offering a number of models in this category.
Having said all that and since the Panasonic plasma you mentioned is a relatively new model within your budget limits and it would be a superior picture to the DLP set anyway, like Club Neon, that would be my choice.
