First, the Panasonic is not an LCD. It's a plasma. You might want to do some research on the differences.

The Panasonic has three HDMI inputs (one front) whereas the Olevia only has one. Price and size not being issues, I'd next be looking at how many devices I could connect. With the Olevia, I'd either constantly reaching behind the unit to swap out the XBox 360 HDMI cable for the cable box HDMI cable or I'd have to choose one for HDMI and one for cable.

With the Panasonic, I could connect my cable box to a rear HDMI port and the XBox to the front HDMI port (so I can easily disconnect it and get it out of the way) and I'd still have an available HDMI port for my PC.

So after researching the differences between plasma and LCD (pros and cons of both), I'd decide which is more important: number of connections or the pros and cons.

-Wolf sends