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This is an amazing display that provides excellent performance on SD signals and out-of-this-world performance on HD signals. Having just watched Open Season on Bluray encoded in H.264/AVC, I am amazed at the performance of this unit with HD content. I actually initially purchased a Sony 52in Bravia X 1080P LCD panel, but I was very disappointed with its movie/TV playback, stuttered motion, black reproduction and the appearance of the white backlighting when viewing from a 20 degree or higher angle. The Sony wasn't even as good as my 2-year old Pioneer 43in plasma. I have to say the PDP-5000EX is leaps and bounds ahead of the Bravia X, and despite paying 20% more for the Pioneer, it is well worth the extra money. Even watching standard DVDs upscaled to 1080i through my Pioneer DV-969AVi DVD player, the picture quality is tremendous. One strange thing I have found so far - viewing 1080P signal from a PS3, I can't alter many of the Pro user settings to fine tune the picture. I think these are quite important to have access to, especially for darker movies. I worked around this by configuring my PS3 to output 1080i, which gives me access to all picture settings. The funny thing is that the PDP-5000EX automatically upscales all signals to 1080P anyway so I'm not actually losing anything by using a 1080i input instead of a 1080p input. Another tip is to watch all 1080 content with the "Dot-by-Dot" screen size setting - this configures the screen to perform no picture stretching whatsoever, and noticeably improves picture quality.
10/04/2007 10:39 AM
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