I purchased my first HDTV Labor Day weekend. CompUSA was having a sale on a Samsung 40" LCD HDTV. I would recommend it to anyone. People have been over to my house who had bought 42" plasmas a couple months before and were amazed at the picture. As for playing video games on it?? I will never go back to regular tv's again. I have the PS3 and cable box hooked up via HDMI (3 inputs). No dead pixels, no problems. If you dont have an HDTV and are playing games on a regular tv......you dont know what you are missing.