You'd be looking mighty foolish if you did. Yesterday (December 5th) I was in a local Best Buy looking at their plasma displays (from 52" down to a 17" HD plasma (the smallest HD-capable set I've ever seen!) and a 13" non-HD plasma (the smallest plasma I'd even heard of, let alone seen with my own eyeballs)).
The plasmas were all getting their feeds from a single D-VHS VCR playing an HD loop (yes, I'm including the 13"). Not a bad picture on *any* plasma, from any typical TV-viewing angle (and they absolutely kicked the stuffing out of the DLP sets on display; even some of the CRTs got beat up rather badly).
What was shocking was the fall in pricing (in addition to the shrink in size). Plasms have fallen in price by half in less than a year. One particular 32" plasma (that was over $5,000 six months ago) is now $2,499 (and that isn't even a sale price). My surmission is that plasma production is catching up to CRT production (in ease of manufacturing, if not in sheep ubiquity); while HD-capable CRT prices have *also* fallen (32" HD-compliant CRT models have fallen below $1K), they have not fallen by the percentage that plasma prices have, and, apparently, plasma can be made *smaller* than a typical CRT in terms of HD (has anyone seen, or heard of for that matter, a sub-30" non-plasma HD display?).
The question begs is whether the CRT display's days are numbered for *anything* other than computers (I seriously expect plasma displays for computers to start pressuring LCD displays in terms of both size *and* price).