Sharp LCD's are great, and improving, but the Kuro's are awesome. To bad Pioneer couldn't get it into the black. I look at the 5080 and my AAFES daily, and wish that they offered a 60" 1080P model here locally. That picture is as close to perfect as we have availablet taday. I hope that Pioneer can have Matsushita spec their glass our correctly in order to continue imprevements on the Kuro like. As far as LCD's, what a bunch of eyewash. LCD is far inferior to Plasma. This is a fact. Until the locally dimmed backlight led tech is perfected, similar to brightside, LCD sucks!!!
Locally dimmed backlight is as big a scam as the currently varying backlights on LCDs (like mine) used to give sky-high contrast ratios, as are the ridiculous contrast ratios (infinite!) for plasma.
None of these contrast ratios (including the plasma) are achievable except under rigged test conditions. And locally dimmed backlight will just add to it. If you have a specific pattern, you'll have higher measured contrast, but it is unlikely to produce a better picture under real-world conditions.
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Sharp LCD's are great, and improving, but the Kuro's are awesome. To bad Pioneer couldn't get it into the black. I look at the 5080 and my AAFES daily, and wish that they offered a 60" 1080P model here locally. That picture is as close to perfect as we have availablet taday. I hope that Pioneer can have Matsushita spec their glass our correctly in order to continue imprevements on the Kuro like. As far as LCD's, what a bunch of eyewash. LCD is far inferior to Plasma. This is a fact. Until the locally dimmed backlight led tech is perfected, similar to brightside, LCD sucks!!!
Locally dimmed backlight is as big a scam as the currently varying backlights on LCDs (like mine) used to give sky-high contrast ratios, as are the ridiculous contrast ratios (infinite!) for plasma.
None of these contrast ratios (including the plasma) are achievable except under rigged test conditions. And locally dimmed backlight will just add to it. If you have a specific pattern, you'll have higher measured contrast, but it is unlikely to produce a better picture under real-world conditions.