Panny 42 v10

[pies]

Hi all looking to get a new telly and im down to hopefully my last few

I watch a fair amount of football and cricket, so motion blur is a major issue.That being said do high end LCD's still suffer from this,I'm thinking of the Philips 9000 series TV's

In the plasma range it seems the Panny V10 is as good as it gets for the money unless I've missed something special

So my question is how well does the Panny v10 stand against the Phillips 9000 series?

And as a second question is there anything else out there thats ive missed,ive already discounted the new Samsungs having seen one in a home installation.

tia

[PJ S]

The Panny still eclipses the Philips, good as it, and some other higher end LCD's have become of late.

[Plotloss]

The 21:9 Fishlips is alarmingly good and the 47PFL9664 apparently even better.

Plasma is king though.

[phumy]

I have just had the Panasonic 42V10 fitted in my lounge and must say it is very impressive, i would love to get the wireless/ethernet bridge fitted so its all singing and dancing with the net but not sure which route to go down. The choice is either a plugged/mains system or the wireless system, any one know the best one?

I got my 42V10 for 987gbp on a pricematch from John Lewis, inc 5 year warranty..

[Legend83]

Sorry to hijack the thread rather than start my own but was wondering if the G10 is still a worthwhile buy?

I have a love / hate relationship with my Kuro LCD which has real motion-handling problems, and am thinking of swapping it for the G10 / X10 42" Panny plasma. Budget would therefore be around £700 (which I would hope to get for the Kuro).

[PJ S]

Yes, G10 is a worthy buy, but the V10 just edges it with the THX mode setting, giving ~90% (purely arbitrary figure) of an ISF calibration.

[rhinochopig]

Another V10 here. Stunning Blu Ray picture. BBC's life series is jaw dropping on it. Standard def is bloody awful though.

[pies]

rhinochopig said:

Standard def is bloody awful though.

;(Thats the part i was hoping to get a major improvemant in,most sports are excellent in HD
but no so good in SD

[PJ S]

pies said:

rhinochopig said:

Standard def is bloody awful though.

;( Thats the part i was hoping to get a major improvemant in,most sports are excellent in HD
but no so good in SD

Too generalised or non-specific Rhino, SD performance is wholly dependant upon what the broadcaster is feeding you with, which sometimes can be piss-poor bit rates, but having seen enough SD on G10, and PZ800 (previous gen), it's always been a surprise how well they managed to upscale 576 pixels to fit 1080, without looking a mess.

In what way are you find SD to be "bloody awful", and what's your source(s), when it is?

[pstruck]

No complaints from me on SD quality on my 50V10. I'm watching most SD content through the built in FreeSat and although it is a bit variable, the majority of the channels look fine from my 10ft viewing distance.

Oh and HD is very good, BlueRay is stunning.

[FunkyGibbon]

42V10 here as well. No issues with SD from Freesat, Freeview or Sky.

As mentioned HD and blu-ray are simply fantastic. Especially if you've spent about 1/2 hour with some basic calibration tools to get the display to work even better in your home environment (mainly just contrast and brightness to suit lighting levels).

[rhinochopig]

PJ S said:

pies said:

rhinochopig said:

Standard def is bloody awful though.

;( Thats the part i was hoping to get a major improvemant in,most sports are excellent in HD
but no so good in SD

Too generalised or non-specific Rhino, SD performance is wholly dependant upon what the broadcaster is feeding you with, which sometimes can be piss-poor bit rates, but having seen enough SD on G10, and PZ800 (previous gen), it's always been a surprise how well they managed to upscale 576 pixels to fit 1080, without looking a mess.

In what way are you find SD to be "bloody awful", and what's your source(s), when it is?

The source is a new freesat installation. I'm comparing the performance to an old Phillips CRT (forget which model now but it won TV of the year award a few years back). The difference between the two SD pictures is night and day. The colours are much duller - flatter for want of a better word, the picture is very grainy (using both Freeview and Freesat sources). It reminds me of when you select full screen on a youtube video on your PC. Yes the quality varies depending on the channel (bitrate) but comparing Life on BBC1 on the two TVs, the Phillips wins hands down. DVD up-scaling is very good though.

As I said though, it doesn't bother me as I mainly use the Panny with HD sources.