Panasonic TH-50PZ700U or Pioneer PDP-5070HD ?

You may want to consider this further perspective. Food for thought.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...post10562457


Cheers,


Gary

5070HD and enjoy Both are great and there are many users here and I mean many that love their 5070HD.



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Originally Posted by freestylemx989 /forum/post/0


Go with pz700 esp, if you are a gamer and sit up close when gaming...also if u want the best possible picture with the ps3...blue-ray style, you will be covered.

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Yeah with the 1080p I would be covered from both far away and close in. The only problem is the hefty price tag over the Pioneer.

Our local retailer eventually have the very first long wait 50PZ700 coming in from Panasonic Canada. I went to help set it up and both the owner of the store & I were quite disappointed when it is out from the box. Even after some tweaking, it still no come close to the Samsung 5054 that sit beside it well even the 52" Samsung LCD looks better than it. The Panny black is gray! the detail are there when sitting very close but when sitting in 8ft away, the color from the Samsung stands out a lot better than the Panny. Also the glare on the Panny is not acceptable! We end up closed down the store early and need to put a black cloth to cover the front door of the store in order to really test out the unit. Now that store owner trying hard to sell me a Samsung instead since they dun carry Pioneer.



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Originally Posted by CharlesZ /forum/post/0


That makes no sense to me at all. What's wrong with HDMI or DVI? Why would you use a VGA connector for a HDTV at any rate?

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Others already answered that - the only way to get 1080p out of a non-Elite 360 is VGA.


As to whether this set can support 1080p over VGA through a firmware update, I've no idea, but the manual says it doesn't now, and there are reports in the owners thread that confirm that it does not.


I could "work around" this by buying some adapters, but that doesn't seem optimal, or buying a new $480 Elite Xbox 360, but that seems like a waste of money, especially since so many competing 1080p TVs support 1080p over VGA.


Whoever keeps talking about VGA issues with the 360 - if you're talking about the contrast, they fixed that in the latest 360 update, to the thrill of countless 360 owners. I know lots of people who have their 360s hooked up by VGA; in fact, it's considered the best way to hook up a regular 360 now that the update has arrived.


So, perhaps the 750s will do 1080p/VGA, or perhaps I'll look at the new Samsungs, which will.

The question is whether the added resolution will make much of a difference at all. Unless I'm sitting up close while gaming (which I may very well be) the added resolution over the Pioneer won't be noticeable at a "normal" viewing distance. So I'm wondering if the price is justified over a 720/768p model.


Also, I went into BB earlier today and they had the TH-50PZ700U hooked up in a cinema booth. I didn't see what medium they were running through it but I'm not sure if it was blue ray. Whatever was playing on the Panasonic looked a bit grainy and the colors weren't as good as I would have hoped. This may just have been because of the possible DVD that was playing on it. They didn't have this model in the Magnolia section but I was able to see another model in the section that really caught my eye. The Pioneer PRO-1140HD had a great PQ and the price at best buy was $200 less that the Panasonic (due to the lack of 1080p). However, as I said I wonder how much of a difference the two resolutions ill make if the Pioneer has such a beautiful PQ.