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• 1 Greeley

  I spent nearly 3 months (almost daily) researching HDTVs before purchasing this TV; at first the technologies available, then brands and products individually, and finally resalers.

  With many reviews from various online sources (zdnet, amazon, etc…) I determined that I first needed to get a plasma. Why? #1: I prefer quality over anything else (deeper blacks, more vivid coloring and detail, and more accurate motion display). #2: A friend of mine has a $1800 LCD of which I get motion blur sickness when watching (everyone’s eyes are less or more sensitive to motion capture technology). #3: The lack of contrast/brightness compared to LCD doesn’t affect me since I don’t watch it while sitting outside in broad daylight or in an atrium full of windows. #4: “Burn-ins” is a completely null argument. LCDs get burn-ins just as much as plasmas do; I’ve seen it first hand. And burn-in prevention (pixel shifting which isn’t really noticable, among other things) helps prevent it. Either way, if you’re watching TV or playing a video game that has stationary menus or display frames for more than 4 hours, you need to get out more IMHO.

  I then determined that Pioneer had the leading quality, but was also discontinuing their plasma product lines and were extremely expensive. Samsung and Panasonic were pretty much tied in second for quality, but Panasonic was pricier for roughly the same quality.

  After this I found that the media content displayed on a 42″ won’t be as noticable in 1080p as opposed to 720p, and 42″ happens to be the right size for a mediocre budget and viewing distance. Another note is HD channels from all content providers are actually only up to 720p now. Blu-ray discs (1080p) are still expensive to purchase and higher layering technologies are coming, which will drive those costs down later on.

  Surprisingly though, while playing 1080p content from my computer connected via DVI-HDMI cabling, I can still see a difference compared to 720p content, even though the native resolution on this TV is only 1024×768. As a side note, playing any content via a computer with a good graphics card yields much better quality compared to most DVD players, tuning boxes, or other converting devices since you first have options to change resolution and refresh rate at your finger tips, and second the hardware and software used to display the content is much more capable.

  Over-all, the only problem I had with the TV was the low native resolution. For the price and quality, I couldn’t really complain. But since I’ve been using it, I’ve learned even that wasn’t a downside.

  In anything I purchase I always buy at the bottom of the curve just before things jump to expensive, but are still tried and tested quality products.

• 2 Chow

  I have a 61 1080p Samsung DLP, a epson 1080ub projector, 37 toshiba 720P lcd, 2 Samsung 32 720 LCD they all have a great picture but the picture on this plasma is outstanding! The colors have a extra pop, no motion blur, nothing but a crisp image. It almost looks like you are looking through a window is that impressive. I have always did through researh on what types of TVS I bought to make sure I got ones with the best picture but I did not know images could look good as this! I would sell my 32 inch tvs in a heartbeat (which is their top of the line models for last year) if they made this model in a 32 but unfortunately they do not, this tv is just that much better. I cannot comment on standard def sources but if you hook this to a HD signal (I have dish network and blu ray player) get ready to catch your jaw when you start watching TV.

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