Yeah, I'm not knocking anyone (we all have our favorites), but at AVS you'll typically find extreme fans of whichever technology depending on the forum you're in. That's just human nature, and again I'm not criticizing as we can all be that way. Just something to remember.
On the plasma front I had a friend by the Panasonic commercial grade 42inch plasma that's quite popular. It's not HD, but EDTV grade and it was a beautiful picture. And he hadn't calibrated anything.
However, I only saw a movie and a couple of games on it so it's hard to fully evaluate.
As I mentioned and others have, you might be surprised what you could do price wise with a projector. On the other hand you might be disappointed. I haven't seen the X1 to be able to comment on it.
Best of luck!
-Nick
