Guys, need your advice here.

So my girlfriend and I were playing Wii sports when the strap broke and completely shattered my 1000$ 40' LCD. Great. Wasn't her fault though, and our insurance covers it, so no biggie.

Here's the real problem. At best buy this week, and have two options of fairly high quality 1000$ TV's. One is a Westinghouse LCD 42'. The other is a 56' Panasonic rear projection TV.

Now, will the rear projection TV have a poorer picture than the LCD? Do you think it would be worth it to have a bigger TV with a poorer picture, if the picture isn't as good?

Thanks ^_^