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I run a 43" Pioneer Plasma PDP-435 (bit long in the tooth now, but still beats most LCD's I see in the shops today for picture quality) hooked up to a Denon AVR-1909. The n900 output through that combo is actually very watchable/listenable - I can watch an XVID DVD-RIP from n900 on the plasma and the output is pretty close to the output I'd get when playing the same file from my PC to the Plasma directly - slight fuzziness if scrutinised closely, and very slight jitter to the replay at points, but pretty decent.

Viewing the n900 UI on the plasma is also quite decent, certainly usable.

The pioneer was top end 4 years ago (cost an arm & a leg). The Denon is a great buy (I paid £399 about a year ago) as it's a proper AV receiver for not much more than a generic 5.1 system you'd get form the high street. OK, you still need to buy the speakers but my top tip: I use some utilitarian satellites from an old panasonic "all in one" 5.1 system plus my faithful celestion DL8's for the front channels with NO sub-woofer. Sounds a bit daft, I know ... but the DL8's can handle all the bass you throw at them (the Denon unit just routes the low bass freq's to the front channels if you don't have a sub-woofer connected) and it leaves me with a proper, pure stereo sound I luuurve for listening to music. As you can tell, I don't bother much with Blu_Ray etc. so this may be irrelevant to your needs (but if you're worrying about connecting n900 to a bigscreen, then you are not going all out for quality anyway) :-)


HTH