In my living room, I have a 60" Sony SXRD with a 3806 Denon receiver and about $25,000 worth of audio equipment (mostly backed by a 10" Velodyne sub and a compliment of Bowers & Wilkins 803 series speakers). I actually don't use my home theater all that often for gaming or anything else because I rarely just sit down and block out the rest of the world. Sometimes I go months without using it. This system has a Wii, 160gb PS3, and a 360 Elite. I would have loved to have gone bigger with the SXRD, but I live in an apartment and the living room is only 13'x27' and once you get the audio equipment deployed, even the 60" is probably bigger than I should have gotten at the time.
However, in my bedroom / office (I telecommute full time), I have a second setup. Since this is my secondary "just so I can play down the hall from my home theater while I'm in my office" setup, it's a lot cheaper. I have a 42" LG LH40 with a Klipsch Synergy 12" down-firing sub and a 5.1 set of Klipsch Quintet SL speakers. They're obviously not even remotely in the same league as the audio for my other system, but at about $1,000 they do their job. Everything goes through a cheap but very capable Yamaha 465BL receiver. This system has a 250gb PS3 and 250gb 360 Elite (the MW2 edition with the lame chassis design). The LG LH40 has 120hz "TrueMotion" which is pretty interesting to view movies on (if not disconcerting and possibly an annoying gimmick) but since it also incurs significant input lag on videogames (3fps or about 50ms+ for 60fps games and 100ms+ for 30fps games), I tend to keep that crap "feature" turned off all the time. As a result, the 60hz 42LH30 probably would have been the better deal, except that the *40 was actually on sale for only $30 more than the LH30 at the time, so I went with it.
I also have another television at the other end of my living room. It's just a 32" Sansui CRT whose sole purpose is to properly display console games from the myriad systems I have connected to it (Jaguar, 5200, 2600, 7200, NES, SNES, Sega MS, Sega Genesis, 3D0, PS2, PS1, Game Cube, N64, DreamCast, etc.
I don't know if it counts, but I also have three 30" Apple Cinema Displays connected to a Mac Pro and when I'm not working, they're obviously being used for stuff like Torchlight, Dragon Age, Fallen Earth, Eve-Online, etc, etc...
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