I believe I saw something in CR about the next wave of widescreen CRTs being the short box version. If weight and size are down, great. CRTs do still produce some of the nicest PQ.
However, I expect these DTVs will be priced at a premium for several years. My other concern is for the first generation of them. When they tried this a few years ago with computer monitors, there were a lot of technological problems. I expect there will be some distorted picture problems with the early versions of these new DTVs also.