Plasma better than LCD right?

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O **** what have I got myself into :D

No really the panasonic LCDs are stupidly expensive for what they are. A well setup PX80 will look the dogs, I have only seen one next to the old PZ range and Kuro and it looked very very nice with *** standard definition tv feed. I fiddled with a few settings, but couldn't adjust the main picture settings and turn it off 'dynamic', but still good job panasonic.

Most important thing is to turn down contrast and brightness to the 40-60% areas, and change picture mode to cinema / move, OFF dynamic which only makes it bright and really increases the risk of retention/burn.

Il glady help you out a bit with setting if needed, but avforums is the place for that in the owners threads, and people who are much more knowledgable and own one will be of more use than me.

Nice choice btw :D
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yeh gonna order on saturday, just need to confirm that my refund has gone through.

At £609 I should have a real bargin.

Just flogged my 26" sammy to my parents for £250 lol & my media centre pc to them for £200.

Bought this bracket for £95 from avsupport: linky

So all in all this upgrade is only costing me £300, with a funky new wall mount.

EDIT: sold the media pc as i finally got my ps3 to stream avi's from wmp11 properly
 
OK WOW, that is an awesome upgrade for that price. The PS3 is great but does require some setting up to get the best out of it.
 
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OK WOW, that is an awesome upgrade for that price. The PS3 is great but does require some setting up to get the best out of it.
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is the bracket good value?

I have not fiddled with the ps3 yet,d dint see much point as my 26 inch is really hard to deal diff between upscaled dvd and blu-ray :)

do u have a ps3? could you help me set this all up next week?
 
Don't know much about brackets. I think you can get them cheaper than that though, but not sure they would tilt/swivel.

I think you have my hotmail addy, just e-mail me when the time comes and il help you out. Same addy for msn as well, will come on off you need me too as Im normally on the PS3 nowadays rather than the PC. I ship 'her' off to the PC with her new sim city 4 game :D
 
One thing I find odd.
manufacturing an LCD is a LOT cheaper than a plasma. More profits in selling LCDs and they seem in some cases to be more expensive. It would be a real shame if (like with Sony) TV/Screen producers favour the ecomomics and switch to producing lcd exclussively.
 
You made the right choice Oxy. Got a 42PZ85 coming tommorow after seing it next to a sony x3500 it had better PQ (deeper blacks and more vibrant) in both HD and SD and cost less too. The X3500 is still the best LCD ive seen though.
 
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Yeh thans ad,

ill add ya to msn, i dont go on msn much but ill e-mail you! thanks for your support! I'll read the telly manual & avfoums owners thread first though.

Just saw the 37px80 in a well respected shop today *cough* (am I allowed to mention the name -AD-? lol), I popped in there after work to make sure my refund was handled properly. They didnt explain over the phone that they take the full amount, a grand in this case! then refund the diff to the price match.

Anyway I digress, the telly looked good in SD for a shop anyway. I couldn't tell the diff on freeview between that and the swanky 42PZ85 that SS-89 just bought. Well the 37px80 looked a little crisper. The Little kid sales man in said store did say that he has never seen screen burn on new plasma's. He went on to say that last xmas the store ran a ps3 on a plasma for 8+ hours a day and no logo burnt in.

Seems like my fears have evaporated! Plasma here I come!

One thing I should say, my mates willl only ask if its 1080p, I'll say no and they will; assume my new telly will blow, thats partly why I went for the LCD yesterday, peer pressure haha. Being 25 now I don't care so bought the plasma, hopefully when I have it setup correctly it blow my mates 1080p sony LCD out of the water for PQ, as I now understand that blacks & contrast ratios are far more important than resolution, at 42"< screens.

What I also dont understand is that 37lzd80 I narrowly avioded didnt have 100hz, but had 1080p and 24p playback. Wheras the cheaper baseline plasma has 24p playback and 100hz, so why is it cheaper that the none 100hz supporting LCD? That makes little sense to me.

(This was my longest post on these forums lol yay)

EDIT: side issue how long does it takes refunds to go back in my bank account? I have paperwork from the shop saying the did it? but no money in my account yet/ any ideas?
 
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If you are getting 50" or bigger go, Pioneer KURO Plasma this is basically one of the best TV you can buy.

If its under 50" stick with LCD as sub 50" KURO aren't 1080p
 
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If you are getting 50" or bigger go, Pioneer KURO Plasma this is basically one of the best TV you can buy.

If its under 50" stick with LCD as sub 50" KURO aren't 1080p
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Oh god.

I challenge you to find a 42" lcd that matches a kuro (42" non 1080p)

dont be fooled by the whole Full HD essential crap. Its all about quality of video processing.
 
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Oh god.

I challenge you to find a 42" lcd that matches a kuro (42" non 1080p)

dont be fooled by the whole Full HD essential crap. Its all about quality of video processing.
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EXACTLY!!!! The 42" Kuro is sublime (Hdtvtest gave it reference level award and they are the best hdtv reviewers out there), nearly went for it but decided against the extra £200 and got the PZ85 which is simply stunning when fed with HD material and very good in SD though not quite Kuro standard.
 
If you are getting 50" or bigger go, Pioneer KURO Plasma this is basically one of the best TV you can buy.

If its under 50" stick with LCD as sub 50" KURO aren't 1080p
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Erm on the LX series of kuros are 1080p, and the 50inch lx is just over £3k, wheras the 720p version can be had for around £1600. You do the maths and decide how much 1080p is really worth (£x2 ?) :D

LCD is still poo for the ultimate picture quality, and it's pretty hard to argue against that with the kuros out there, I just don't get how pioneer produce something soo good.
 
Yep its a shame that the 9th Gen Pioneers will be the last in house plasmas (Plasma tv's are not the most profitable with regards margins and Pioneer are restructuring their business). After that they will be outsourcing the screens to another company. Rumoured to be panasonic.
 
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Yep its a shame that the 9th Gen Pioneers will be the last in house plasmas (Plasma tv's are not the most profitable with regards margins and Pioneer are restructuring their business). After that they will be outsourcing the screens to another company. Rumoured to be panasonic.
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Yep very unfortunate, but only time will tell iff the 10G will be worth the premium for the internal pioneer electronics partnered with a maybe panny panel, or just stick with panasonics, which will inevitably be cheaper.

God I hope they still progress with their ' 0 contrast concept' and 9mm thick tvs in some shape or form, they looked soo impressive from the pictures. Especially the contrast concept through even this LCD pc monitor looked blacker than a black hole whereas the 8G next to it looked grey in comparison.
 
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