Buyers Remorse??

I'm happy with both my 2010 Plasmas

65 S2- plenty bright for a plasma, great for sports and where you want to actually have something that can complete with LCDs for brightness. I find many of todays top sets to be dim and its getting dimmer in regards to peak brightness.

58 C8000- its awesome if you like film grade picture, has that movie look. I'm not thrilled with its max light output though. My S2 is better for football, hockey baseball. But if its a HD film, forget about it the C8000 crushes the S2.

So i dont have a perfect set, and have never found one!

Pioneer Kuro 141 is the perfect monitor at least, the best available.

Heck yeah. 3 months ago, I bought a Samsung PN51D550 and love it. It replaced a 3 yr old 47" LCD and the picture is soooo much better. I have watched baseball all summer and now football and love how it handles sports. My 40" Samsung LED doesn't look as good on a lot of content. I have a blast with about 10 3D BD's I have, but mostly I watch non 3D movies. I haven't bothered with the breakin, yet don't have any retention despite quite a few movies with black bars on the top/bottom.

Me too. I've had a Panasonic 65PZ850U in my HT for over two years and a Panasonic 42ST30 in my living room since May and both have been problem free and look amazing. I have multiple units hooked up to them (xbox, rokus, cable, laser disc, dvd and blu-ray players) and the PQ on all of them makes me glad I bought them.

I'm okay with my 55vt30, just ok.. I can't seem to ever get the picture right, and these FBR issues have me worried too. I think maybe I should have waited, but I'm an oddball, sounds like everyone else likes theirs.
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Panny 50ST30. Given the issues that I've had with it (see the ST30 thread) and Panasonic's resistance to backing its warranty, along with the very dim Cinema mode, I sometimes wish that I had returned the set to Amazon and gotten a Samsung 7000 instead.

mohanman, you can get fluctuating brightness issues patched.

With regard to this thread, I am very happy with my 65ST30.

Samsung PN59D7000. Beautiful image, good looking design. Nothing is perfect so you just have to choose the lesser evil. It's a fact of life and I feel sorry for the people who cannot accept that.

I had some Buyers Remorse when i got my st30 when i saw the price after tax lol
but that went away fast after i watched some blu-rays and i have 3 years to pay the tv off lol

No. Everyone who has bought a new plasma lately has been unhappy.

Sheesh.

And to add to woes, I haven't bought a new TV of any kind and I'm unhappy, I want one.

Same here. No buyers remorse whatsoever now.

Just purchased the Panny 55ST30 this past thursday and I am completely happy with it....well I do wish I would have sprung for the 60" model

I hope you realize your question gets asked over and over numerous times a day in various manners, so responding to it can get old. The question is usually posed by people who hardly contribute to any thread and want information without doing proper research because they "don't have the time." Then, once someone gives them the information they are seeking, they continue to ask the same question because the answer doesn't fit what they are looking for, thus making any response meaningless. Multiply this same scenario a few thousand times over a few years and you can understand why a cranky response may occur from time to time.

I like this question, and appreciate all who answer because it will help some of us who are on the fence about buying plasma. I'm shopping around to buy a new TV in about a month and I'm back and forth between panasonic/samsung plasmas and sony/samsung LED/LCD tvs.

My biggest concern for a plasma is Image retention/burn in, as I'll be gaming. Biggest concern for LED/LCD tvs is clouding, flashlight, black crush. Right now I'm thinking a panasonic st30 would be best, but reading about posts about people with gaming HUDs burned into their screens for weeks scares me and it might force me to buy an obscenely expensive sony hx929 model which is way above what I want to pay.

I made this post in another buyers remorse thread.

I've never heard of anyone having buyers remorse when they buy the best of something.

Its those who try to convince themselves that good enough is good enough, that usually have the remorse.

Now returning something after realizing they could not afford it in the 1st place is another story.

That's not 100% true. Something can be "not good enough to warrant the price". I tried several displays after my DLP died before ending up getting a kuro. All were $2k range (although at different times) and only the kuro was actually worth $2k. So part of being a happy shopper is knowing that you got a good value for your money without feeling like you might have missed a better set that was only a little more or possibly even a little less than you paid.

There's also the buyers remorse from people who buy a set knowing it won't be as good as say a kuro, and hoping they won't regret it a year later if a "kuro-killer" hits the ground. Especially true I imagine for the people dropping big bucks on premium sets.

You just proved my point.

Not really. The "best" isn't always available. The kuro is the first TV that doesn't bother me at all. On the LCD side (for productivity), higher end IPS monitors don't bother me. Before that, I was always bothered by the displays I had, but I couldn't do anything about it. Either they were prohibitively expensive or else there just wasn't anything out there. In practice, people usually aren't going to be able to get the "best" unless they have a lot of money to blow or there's some fluke in the market (ala kuro firesale ) so there will usually be some buyer's remorse. Even with the kuro, I occasionally miss the "holographic"/glossy picture you'd get on a good RPDLP, but it's not one of those things that actively nag me or occupy my thoughts like PQ problems will. If I'd had the money I might have considered a Laservue to be honest. But overall the kuro's been a very nice set and it's rock solid (something I'd have been skeptical of with the Laservue given Mitsubishi's QC track record).

Would be nice if it were 3D, but I'm not 100% sold on 3D since in practice it seems to be more like layered 2D than true 3D, most evident when there's any people in shots.

I will agree with you to the extent that people who buy a higher quality set are less likely to suffer buyers remorse or regret it than someone getting the cheapest they can find - as long as they spent within reason to get the higher quality set.

Purchasing a 2011 Plasma model TV will be one of the biggest buyers remorse years.

Most people will feel the pain when the 2012 Plasma models come out.

you will see.... wait it out if you can!

What techno improvements or new features are you expecting to see in 2012?

you must wait 3 1/2 months.

ask this question in Jan of 2012.

I don't see how it's going to be so much worse than other years.

Furthermore, to actually get your hands on a set, people would have to wait another approximately 6 months? That is a significant amount of time.

Someone with still a solid, relatively young set might wait, but I felt it was time for me with a 6 year old DLP. The Plasma was a good enough deal that I won't feel bad even if I'm tempted for another one in a couple years.

Not really sure how I can have remorse. I love my 60st30 and its only a few days old. I didnt need 3d but got the ST since its better then the S. I also got it for only $100 more then S, but ended up getting it $50 CHEAPER then the S when I returned my 3d glasses that came with the set. And it has more features and function then I thought it even had (vieracast/tools and internet widgits) so that made me even happier. And 60" is PERFECT in my living room size wise, I had no idea. And even better, how I have my tv and my HT speakers set up and how I got them closer to the wall then with my other TV (a 56" DLP) the sound even got better. I swear the area behind the tv and the wall makes for a 'box' so to speak, Ive had much better mid bass response and accuracy.

No remorse for me!! Only wish I did it sooner.

Why do I keep seeing Carnac the Magnificent with a card pressed to his forehead when I read this?

we all know this is true....

the last few years have been a flop if you compare the newest Plasma TVs to the Pioneer 9G's

so you got to figure by 2012 they may match Pioneer, etc........

Bought a Samsung 59D7000. Best Set I have owned.