Plasma TV or Projector

Okay, so the recent thread on /g/ has gotten me thinking about getting a new large display. Since LCDs are still too expensive for the size I am looking for (at leat 42 inches), the only other options are plasma and projectors.

I have almost no experence with projectors aside from in school. They seem like a decent way to watch videos from what I have seen. If I do get a projector it would be about 3m from where the image will be displayed (a yelowish wall). It'll be my living room so it wont be a sealed off completely dark room, and most likely alot of my watching will be done in the daytime. For the same price as the 42" plasma I could get a pretty good projector I think, but would it be a better choice?

Now with the plasmas, I already know that they are lower rez than LCDs. But the big thing I worry about with a plasma screen would be burn in. I hear that the newer screens will not burn in unless you leave a static image on for hours and hours, but would the black bars from watching non 16:9 stuff on it cause burn in of lines? Also, this thing would be my second monitor for my computer, so I guess there wouldnt be a taskbar, but if there was a taskbar, would I have to worry about that burning in?

If you ever have burn problems with a plasma, you can leave it on overnight in negative mode with the exact same image and it'll reverse-burn the image out of the glass.

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lol screensavers
Computers with bright desktops and no screensaver could leave a burn. Don't worry about the black bars though, they're black to *prevent* being burned into the glass. Light is not emitted from black, so I doubt it would light-etch into glass if there's no light to begin with.