One of my friends offered to buy my Sony 55A2020 for a very good price so I accepted. I was originally thinking of just upgrading to the Sony 60A3000. However I am looking at the Panasonic TH-50PZ700U or Samsung FP-T5084. I am getting hooked up at a local B&M store and can get the Samsung for $400 more then the Sony and the Panny for $200 more then that.

The Samsung LN-T5265F is an option priced between the two, but I am swayed against it due to image blurring.


Stats about the room: One wall of unblinded East facing windows. Skylights that face the Southern sky. The TV at it's furthest point from the sitting area is 12'. I use the TV for pretty much everything SD & HD TV, Blu-ray and DVD Movies, and Ps3/xbox360 gaming.

I'm just trying to get a view on whether or not the size and light of the room would offset the advantages to getting the plasma.

If you're happy with rear projection TVs, I'd probably go with the Sony. It's much bigger and has great picture quality. Plasma will have huge viewing angle advantage, if thats a big issue.

One of my friends offered to buy my Sony 55A2020 for a very good price so I accepted. I was originally thinking of just upgrading to the Sony 60A3000. However I am looking at the Panasonic TH-50PZ700U or Samsung FP-T5084. I am getting hooked up at a local B&M store and can get the Samsung for $400 more then the Sony and the Panny for $200 more then that.

The Samsung LN-T5265F is an option priced between the two, but I am swayed against it due to image blurring.


Stats about the room: One wall of unblinded East facing windows. Skylights that face the Southern sky. The TV at it's furthest point from the sitting area is 12'. I use the TV for pretty much everything SD & HD TV, Blu-ray and DVD Movies, and Ps3/xbox360 gaming.

I'm just trying to get a view on whether or not the size and light of the room would offset the advantages to getting the plasma.what is the angle of seating. SXRD IMO has horrible viewing angles. Directly, it looks good, but I have too many off-axis seats to get one. (I also like some plasmas more than them directly:))

The Tv sits in one corner of a rectangular room and there is an L Shaped couch in the opposing corner so it gets some awkward angles. I could re-arrange the room so that the TV is on one of the longer walls for a shorter and more direct viewing distance/angles

One of my friends offered to buy my Sony 55A2020 for a very good price so I accepted. I was originally thinking of just upgrading to the Sony 60A3000. However I am looking at the Panasonic TH-50PZ700U or Samsung FP-T5084. I am getting hooked up at a local B&M store and can get the Samsung for $400 more then the Sony and the Panny for $200 more then that.

The Samsung LN-T5265F is an option priced between the two, but I am swayed against it due to image blurring.


Stats about the room: One wall of unblinded East facing windows. Skylights that face the Southern sky. The TV at it's furthest point from the sitting area is 12'. I use the TV for pretty much everything SD & HD TV, Blu-ray and DVD Movies, and Ps3/xbox360 gaming.

I'm just trying to get a view on whether or not the size and light of the room would offset the advantages to getting the plasma.


I just sold my 60a2000 set and will go lcd or plasma. Most likely plasma but lcd is not out of the picture. I enjoyed my sxrd set for a little over one year however started thinking about lamp replacement and decided to get rid of it before I was out $750.00 for three lamps. I like the idea of buying a tv as with the old tube tvs and not having to worry about replacing lamps every 6000- 8000 hours. The SXRD sets are nice...just looking to experience plasma/lcd. I will probably put a plasma in my main home theater and an LCD in my bedroom. Blu ray looked great on it....PS3 games looked very good. As I said before...if not for the lamps needing replacement every 6k-8k...I most likely would have kept it. :cool:

I just sold my 60a2000 set and will go lcd or plasma. Most likely plasma but lcd is not out of the picture. I enjoyed my sxrd set for a little over one year however started thinking about lamp replacement and decided to get rid of it before I was out $750.00 for three lamps. I like the idea of buying a tv as with the old tube tvs and not having to worry about replacing lamps every 6000- 8000 hours. The SXRD sets are nice...just looking to experience plasma/lcd. I will probably put a plasma in my main home theater and an LCD in my bedroom. Blu ray looked great on it....PS3 games looked very good. As I said before...if not for the lamps needing replacement every 6k-8k...I most likely would have kept it. :cool:

Maybe LED RP would be an option. Rear projection is a great value, especially if you want huge screen sizes and don't care about the wall mounting.

Also, 6000-8000 hours is pretty good! I thought those bulbs were more like 2000.

Maybe LED RP would be an option. Rear projection is a great value, especially if you want huge screen sizes and don't care about the wall mounting.

Also, 6000-8000 hours is pretty good! I thought those bulbs were more like 2000.


I didn't really think about the LED sets because I've heard the PQ takes a big hit compared to the SXRD and plasma