Oh, one other thing as someone mentioned how close people put their bigscreens. The recommended min. distance is 1.5 screen size for HDTV. So that's 7.5 feet for a 60 incher. Again that's for a 16:9 TV broadcasting in HD. I have to laugh at how many people buy these big TV's and don't bother getting HD boxes for them. Regular TV actually looks worse on them. I went to a Super Bowl party 2 years ago and didn't have the heart to tell the guy his picture looked awful.
Wrong. The recommended for a 60" plasma would be 15 feet. It's roughly a factor of 3, not 1.5. If you actually tried to watch a movie for 2 hours 7.5 feet away, would realize the terrible image quality and probably end up with a migrain.