Which 42" plasma?

[chaparral]

Just a quick question - are the 42" Philips ambilight ones much good?

My sister has an older philips plasma and the picture is terrible with motion.....

I would stick to Panasonic / pioneer or Fujitsu plasma's which are well know to be the best plasma's

 

[Herminator]

Well I went down to look at some TV's today....

One shop had a terrible setup on some tv's. Some next to each other seemed to be at opposite extremes of brightness, although with a decent image quality, whilst some looked like they were getting an awful signal, making them look like less than standard definition with bad interference. How anyone is supposed to get a decent comparison, I'll never know.

I do know I'll not be touching anything from Philips, they seemed to have a very ugly looking problem with moving images. Areas where something moves across the screen looked like they had horizontal lines going across them, very noticable with light colours.

The 42" 720p plasma sets didn't look that impressive to me, I do have decent eye sight and they looked like they needed some anti aliasing from 6-8ft away (was hard to get even that far away) and any closer and the "lattice" was annoyingly noticable. Which means the 1080p Panasonic is more tempting, although I'm not sure I like it's design.

Pioneers are very nice looking but I can't afford their higher prices.

Time to look for some online prices again

 

[Marcos]

i've done a load more reading etc, PX70 definitely seems the one to get, though at 42", might be worth paying £200 extra for the 1080p version.

 

[Surfer]

plasmas are fine for gaming. Never had any retention or burn on my plasma - and i play both pc and ps3 games on it (ps3 games esp look superb on it )

 

[Jed Shields]

I bought a Panasonic TH42PZ70B about a month ago. Awesome TV. Watching The Matrix trilogy and Batman Begins on HD-DVD is simply stunning.