Well, thanks for all the suggestions, but the somewhat elderly Panasonic TX24-DX1 will be off to the recycling place next week. Fare thee well, trusted old friend of 14 years....
Having huffed and puffed and shifted furniture accordingly to create enough space, the new kid on the block will now be a Panasonic TX-32DS500B plus a few hidden converters so that it will accept my SCART peripherals via HDMI and also to convert the optical digital output to RCA phono for the AV system. There's so much free space now available that I've constructed a shelf system to hold some of my DVDs.
I'm rather looking forward to watching
Battle of Britain on the new TV, particularly scenes involving a certain Section Officer....
