Advice: Please recomend set up for viewing HD Qaulity videos on 50" Plasma

I use FCE to make movies with my Sony HDR12. (AVCHD) I want to be able to export these as dvd's to give to family. But more importantly want to watch in best HD quality on my TV. I can hook up up my mackbook pro to the TV with HDMI adpater (plan on getting Mac Mini)
What are the best export formats to do this? And waht player is best to use? (have expiremented with boxee, plex, xbmc (they don't do quick time)
Looking for total solution suggestions. Thx

I've tried QT player and direct connect (before Snow Leopard), QT movie and h.264 outputs (.mov files). The picture was great, but there was an occasional judder. It may not be the case with Snow Leopard, because they use hardware acceleration with certain iMacs and display adapters, so the judder might be gone, I am not sure. Otherwise the diplay was very good. I tried MacMini (the generation before last) with Leopard, and it really couldn't keep up, lot of judder. Again, with the latest generation H/W and with the Snow Leopard, it may not be an issue. I finally resorted to network (Gbit ethernet) attached PS3, to which I originally spooled from my iMac (I now use IOmega network attached drive, so that I can use the iMac for other things or turn it off), or play Toast burned BD's (I don't play video games). It works great, picture quality is really good on 82" TV. For direct play, after edit, I perform QT export to h.264 format and keep the full resolution and best output quality (I set dual path through, etc.). BTW, hardly none of the picture quality issues show on smaller screen (I have Samsung 26" secondary monitor attached and don't see many of the problems). The big screen reveals more of the imperfections. 50" may not reveal as many of them, I am not sure. I hope this helps.
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