You would be the biggest idiot in the world to buy the Marantz. Just kidding.
But seriously at this time don't do it. Wait for the new Fujitsu 61 if you can if not get the 6101, hands down.. Buying the Marantz I recommend not, with what I have recently found.
The Marantz is a plasma, it can only look so good, whereas a TURBO plasma will create Hollographic images. On HDTV , I swear, and anyone that sees the comparison.
3 years from now a great percentage of us in the forum will have made made Fujitsu 61" their next plasma choice. The AVM is 80% of what makes the Fujitsu a better plasma, converting DVD to near HDTV and HDTV into near reality. Read the bylaws of the Imaging Science Foundation, nowhere in their Library is there reference to depth perception, psycovisual understandiing of reality, and about the field of using advanced states of FUZZY LOGIC in signal processing. Just a bunch of numbers from a group called SMPTE.
Fujitsu is the only Giant Supercomputer Manufacturer that has treated their plasma business development; YES by meeting SMPTE. But in order to build upon it, the ultimate display engine.
What would cost faraoudja 200 million dollars to develop, is being offered in the Fujitsu for just 2 o3 thousand more.
Because in recent A/B testst the Fujitsu 61 blew the new Pioneer 50-box (with outboard tuner), out of the water; in sharpness , brightness, image superiority, and the fact that after seeing the fujisu, looking at the other (very good plasma) was exactly like removing the polarised filter 3-D goggles at IMAX or Disney.
I will write the story of the shootout between Pioneer 50 and Fuji 61 using the discovery channel (on Charter Comunication) HD cable (better than Dish net).
Fujitsu avm on very good heigh definition will create 3-d. That suckker has a being engine under the hood , and the competition has been caught with pants down.
You will never regret the decision, and have the satiscfaction of having paved the way to the higher road; trail blazing in the area of Reality Simulation, during the first of the century, what it is destined to be the longest period of future cinema.
It's not a plasma, it's a TURBOPLASMA tm.