I've heard good about Pani's and Samsungs, even Vizio. Still side by side comparison
is only valid in controlled situations. If the set's not calibrated and/or the test
material not varied enough it's pointless.
Amazing how if Best Buy (for example) wants to sell units that they don't offer to
plug in a BlueRay player with calibration media to show what each set can do.
Nevermind that they don't even have their in-house certified calibrator's calibrate
the floor models. More appalling was the blocky highly compressed video "streaming
off some video service's box in the back room" over component video they used to show
off all the floor models.
Frustrating that they were not willing to let me pick 3 or 4 sets to plug in a bluray
player w/ a movie to compare. Was considering bringing in the disc Robert Heron uses
for his reviews for $10 that has all the content needed to exercise a set properly.
This exercise came about because my dad in MN did not want to buy, try, return since
I would not be there to help him unmount/rebox the set. So he's still watching digtal
cable on a 19" Korean no-name TV. =(
Winterlight wrote:
At 01:48 PM 9/28/2009, you wrote:
Heh, even knowing they're going out of the biz and what happens if
there's a
problem and you need parts or a replacement? Especially when you've
spent
that much $$? I've heard that the Panasonic plasmas are almost as good,
less $$, and have pretty good warranties, fwiw...
Pioneer comes with a three year in house warranty. It is a quality
product and I haven't heard about anybody having any problems. However,
Pioneer is a serious company and they will find a way to support it in
order to preserve their great reputation. They still have a high end
line of products and they do not want to loose those Elite buyers or
make them feel abandoned.
I have looked at Panasonic side by side and they are just not the same.
Besides the Panasonic 60 inch are in the 3500 range anyway.
But that said you make some very good points.
