RE: Plasma panels - what to choose?

["Paul" <p-gale@xxxxxxx>]

My Panasonic 50" (series 5) has a native resolution of 1366 x 768
(widescreen). The smaller 42" panels use 1024x768 and the other models
(37") use an even smaller resolution (852x480 ???) IIRC.



I used a free bit of software to modify my shuttle PC's graphic card to
allow this resolution (1366x768). I use various professional CRT's and
my business is video production - when I first saw the result of
connecting my PC to the plasma I was blown away with the quality. Even
1024x768 (down sampled by the plasma) was excellent (the only difference
was that the aspect ratio was wrong).



Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kwatt@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 06 May 2003 11:05
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Plasma panels - what to choose?




> > I see there is actually quite a choice of 50"-ers around
now, -
> unbeatable
> > has panels by LG, Samsung, Pioneer, Panasonic, Toshiba, Fujitsu,
and
> > Phillips.

Paul,

I recently saw the new Samsung 50" panel sitting next to a Panasonic
42"
running the same DVD and, to be blunt, the Samsung looked utterly crap
in
comparison. The picture was soft, blacks were rubbish and it just didn't
look good at all, I even played with the settings and it still looked
guff,
so it was the panel, not the settings! I saw the LG and 42" and it was
okay,
but not great. I haven't seen a Fujitsu panel for ages so I can't
comment on
the current crop.

The Philips ones are not bad, the Sony's are nice but if *I* were buying
a
plasma I'd get a Pioneer or a Panasonic, IMHO it's a two horse race and
it
is worth spending the extra IMO. However, all the 50"+ panels seem a
bit
soft to me but the Panasonic (IIRC) 50" one I did see and Phil was
there
too
I think, was one *HELL* of a lot better than the Samsung.

But then again, that could all change with the introduction of a couple
of
new models! ;)

HTH

K.