I was a bit gutted this morning when I found that our 10 year old TV had gone busto overnight, but when I rang the GF she told me she's been saving up for a new one and I've got about a grand of her money to blow on a new one

We want to get a 32" LCD and I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations.
I read somewhere that you sometimes get a pixilated blocky sort of image on some LCD's. It does that on my computer monitors but my computer was built around the same time as the one on LOST so I thought it was just that, but then I was watching football on someone else's TV and the footballers were looking a bit like the characters on some of my old Spectrum games (Manic Miner springs to mind) so maybe it is a problem on some. He just bought the one recommended by his local Dixon's tho so it was probably old stock they'd been trying to get rid of for years?
It's gonna annoy me to get a brand new shiny TV and then have a bad picture. Is this still a problem and if so can it be cured by buying better wires to plug in the back. Are scart leads old hat now? Is there some other way to connect my Sky + box?
I realise I need to do some research on this but someone on Blonde usually knows the answers to these sort of questions. Many thanks for any replies.