Strangely enough, I've had a similar 42" Panasonic plasma for years too. Used to be my living room TV, but it ended up being used for my computers as it does PAL and NTSC. I can't remember what model I have, but mine is a 720p (1280x720).
The standard connections were component, composite, RGB, VGA and S-Video. I added an extra card to give it HDMI.
Here it is playing Elite:
