I succumbed to temptation and just got a Pioneer 508XD...
First first impressions are a huge "wow". Coming from a half-decent 37" LCD (Toshiba 37WLT58), the step up in picture quality is huge. Blacks are black! And the image just pops out at you. Before buying I was worried about image retention, but no one in the 140 odd page thread at AV forums has had a problem with that, despite many of those being used to it on previous plasmas.
I've just set it up with some settings from AV Forums, and will just use those for a while.
For my 360 (I don't PS3 yet, and I haven't got round to setting up the Wii), I'm using VGA at 1280x720 and the picture is fantastic. The shadows in The Darkness are superb.
It wasn't cheap, but I'm very happy with it so far
First first impressions are a huge "wow". Coming from a half-decent 37" LCD (Toshiba 37WLT58), the step up in picture quality is huge. Blacks are black! And the image just pops out at you. Before buying I was worried about image retention, but no one in the 140 odd page thread at AV forums has had a problem with that, despite many of those being used to it on previous plasmas.
I've just set it up with some settings from AV Forums, and will just use those for a while.
For my 360 (I don't PS3 yet, and I haven't got round to setting up the Wii), I'm using VGA at 1280x720 and the picture is fantastic. The shadows in The Darkness are superb.
It wasn't cheap, but I'm very happy with it so far
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