"Commercial" plasma screens the real deal for HT?

I have a plasma display from NEC. It is a non-consumer model as it does not have a tuner or speakers..a true display only. Excellent product, and I saved a ton of CAN$ by avoiding the retail, consumer marketplace and sourcing it elsewhere. In addition to on-line sales, one can typically get a "commercial display" from vendors of audiovisual equipment.

WOW, thanks for all the info. One last question: a salesguy told me that plasma screens really burn fast because of the two large black stripes that are indeed still images top-bottom of movies on DVD format....bullshit or truth? he then tried to sell me an LCD for over $7,000.....but I tend to listen to people whose job is to be profesionnal.
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That salesguy needs to back to diplay school. What a load o' BS. Plasmas can suffer from burn-in, but with normal use (like not leaving a still-image on the screen for hours) you shouldn't have any problems.

How does black burn pixels? That doesn't make an ounce of common sense. However, if you watched strictly letterboxed movies on a 4:3 screen, so that the top and bottom of the screen were always black, then I suppose you could have a situation in which the center area of the screen would, in time, be dimmer than the rest of the display. I would imagine that this would take thousands of hours of use, and would be noticeable only when watching full-screen 4:3 programs (which also doesn't make sense since plasma displays are widescreen and not 4:3). This could, possibly, show as brighter bands at the top and bottom of the screen relative to the dimmer center of the screen. However, this is really a guess on my part. I believe the salesman was employing a "technique" to upsell you to a more expensive set.

My Panasonic has an anti-burn-in feature. It slowly moves the picture around... so slowly and by such a small amount that it can't be seen. This feature can be turned on or off.