IMO DVI is not the final word. Certainly when receivers and dvd players start having DVI you are going to need another inpput on your TV. I thought I had read that HDCP was actually smaller than DVI, and that there would be some kind of adapter. Anyway if there is one thing you can be certain of is that there will always be change. I say buy your TV now and enjoy it. If you wait for the next best thing you will never have anything.
Sometimes I still feel confused about the whole thing. Everybody says we sell HDTVs yet very few are actually capable of displaying true 1920x1080 lines of resolution. They either have 1280x720 or 840x600 or whatever. I feel that a true HDTV should be a TV that has 1920x1080 lines of resolution. Not a tv that is able to take that signal and scale it down to whatever their native resolution is. I still feel I am losing out. Very few tv manufacturers have really explained this or have satisfied our HDTV needs. Certainly the technology has not come out yet for LCDs and DLPs. Although I thought I heard that the sharp 24" display can do 1920x1080.
Anyway the bottom line is if you can wait a year better for you. Prices are only going to get cheaper. It also allows for the bugs to get worked out on newer products. It is amazing how many nightmare stories you here from people on forums like this one. They spent anywhere from 3 to 8 thousand on their display units and they have burn-in, dead pixels, dust blobs. Or with the recent release of the Samsung DLP-TVs, the PQ is bad on 480i sources.
If you are really anxious about getting a TV now at least wait for the reports at cedia, and then make a choice. Enjoy your TV and when something really extraordinary comes out you can sell it, or give it to the folks, or put it in the bedroom, or stick it in the basement, or and this is the best one, give it to your old pal Jeff.
Happy Shopping
[This message has been edited by JeffreyMercado (edited September 19, 2002).]