Wait a few month (2-3). By then after poor Christmas sales, you can steal a Hispanics ID, and get a sub-prime loan to finance your 50" plasma. As long as you don't use your real address for the purchase, you'll be fine.....the government will bail out the lender for your TV with no problems and the store's bottom line, as well as the manufacturer's bottom line, and China's bottom line will look much better. Then the 'glovermint' will drop the interest rates again and raise all of our taxes.
Get an LCD if you can view the TV in a darkened room....they have less problems than plasma's at this time.