Ping me.
I have a 50" plasma and DirectTV, but no HD yet.
DirectTV wants too much for too few channels, I am waiting for more channels.
We have the DISH gold package, and local HD from ($10/mth) basic cable.
NOTE: basic cable has the local HD statations with zero upcharge IF you have a built-in HD tuner, simply bypass the cable box with a splitter before the box, and run a line to your 75ohm connector, program the TV to find stations, and there you go!
(My basic cable has over 352 digital signals that the SONY XBR found, most are just blank digital signals, but the locals are there in HD.
Tha cable company wanted me to pay $6/mth more for their HD box, I simply declined for the HD built-in tuner finds them.)