I used to pick up plasma TV's and bring them to a warranty center. Can't tell you how many times I saw two giant columns of ESPN down both sides of the screen from guys watching the HD channel back before their standard aspect ratio was widescreen. They'd just show a really nice picture in the old square format and put ESPN columns on the sides to fill in the picture (for normal tv shows, sports games were widescreen). I'd never touch a plasma TV no matter how cheap they got.