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Originally Posted by blutarsky /forum/post/18226408
Been away for a while..... is there any flat panel beating the latest top-quality Kuros?
What can we expect from near-future models?
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Originally Posted by blutarsky /forum/post/18226408
Been away for a while..... is there any flat panel beating the latest top-quality Kuros?
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What can we expect from near-future models?
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Originally Posted by blutarsky /forum/post/18226661
D-Nice to see you!what's your perspective on the near future? Is it a matter of months or years to see a Kuro-matching panel?
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Originally Posted by D-Nice /forum/post/18226724
Define matching. Are we speaking strictly of black levels or are we looking at the entire package?
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Originally Posted by blutarsky /forum/post/18226847
I should say overall image quality, leaving out all the rest (connections, and capabilities).... blacks have an important role!
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Originally Posted by DocuMaker /forum/post/18239813
Well, the XBR8 is nice (and thick!) I meant to say, at almost 6 inches depth...hehehe, but I would rather take a 55 B8500 at 1.6 inches depth, thank you very much. The B8500 will have no trouble besting the Pioneer in a bright room, but it loses out when the lights go down. But the B8500 still looks quite nice in the dark--I would gladly take one of those instead of a Panny plasma, with their inferior filters, inferior processing, inferior styling, and color accuracy issues and rising blacks, and overly dim THX! Not everyone views their TV in a cave. Some people need a good mix of bright room and dark room performance. I wouldn't mind having the B8500 instead of the Kuro during the summer months. The rest of the year when it's dark and cloudy and gray and gloomy here in the Pac-NW, the Kuro looks fantastic. Of course, with the B8500 you don't get phosphor trails, but you get blooming. You don't get the buzzing with the B8500, but you do get off-axis picture degradation.
So you have to take into account the conditions in which you will be primarily viewing, and you have to decide which things bother you the most. Some people are very sensitive to any kind of buzz or phosphor lag. Others need to have the excellent viewing angles that PDP provides. Others don't.
There is no simple answer to these questions of which is best. The answer always is, what is best for YOU and your particular set of circumstances. What is best for ME may be entirely different.
The only LED/LCD that truly inspires me is the B8500. Sorry Sony, but I don't like yucky matte screens. Perhaps the new glossy-screen fully-backlit from Sony will win me over, but if they don't offer separation of blur and judder, like on the Sammys, they are already starting off with one strike against them.