woo

Woo

The Rocketfish wireless kit works fine for a pair of rears, it's like $100. Doubt it has the power to drive towers at full range or anything, but it shouldn't have a problem with bookshelves or an 80Hz crossover. Not sure if the fronts are an issue, but I would just use those little plastic floorboard runners/hiders

Not quite sure if this is what this article is referencing, but personally, I don't think CC has failed because of VOD or PPV. There's still a decent market in secondary and tertiary displays, where it's not practical to rent a full featured STB. A lot of people don't even use that crap. The biggest problem is TV manufacturers stopped supporting it way too soon. I don't even think you can buy a new TV today with CC support, regardless of the price. No one was buying secondary HDTV's back when the manufacturers killed it off. Then there are the cable companies, whose prices seem to range from free to nearly as much as a box. I also recall a number of complaints about them being perpetually out out stock (how convenient).

Manufacturer published panel "Response Times" (2ms, 4ms, etc...) has very little to do with gaming "Input Lag" on modern displays. Those values are usually a drop in the bucket compared to "Video Processing Time" which no manufacturer publishes. There are some really fast monitors out there, but in general, the actually lag is often many many times higher than the labeled PRT (e.g. a 2ms display may have 50ms of actual lag).

Yea the black level bit is puzzling. No other reviews or professional calibrators (see AVSForum) have given a significant MLL advantage to the V10. Maybe someone should bring that to HDGuru's attention so they can double check their findings. Perhaps Panasonic themselves should look into this cause that goes way beyond accepted unit to unit variation and kind of craps all over any semblance of quality control.

The V10 is probably not worth it over the G10 unless you're just a real stickler for 24p or find an amazing deal (say a $100-$200 premium over the best G10 sale, depends how valuable $200 is to you). There are really no picture quality differences between the two. I believe the only potential advantage the V10 has is slightly (0.1) more accurate gamma (Custom/Game profile), but it still falls pretty far short of the oft accepted 2.22 standard out of the box. I'm not sure this advantage exists at all post-professional-calibration. Aside from that, the two share identical color accuracy/inaccuracy, black levels, etc from what I understand.

It is worth noting that these 6000, 7000, and 8000 series Samsungs are Edge Lit Global LED schemes, not the local dimming, contrast improving, LED arrays seen in the Samsung 81/950, Sony XBR8, and LG LG90. Judgment should be reserved for reviews, but it is thought that real world on screen contrast on these will not see much (if any) improvement over traditional CCFL's with the same panel. In other words, do not be fooled by the LED tag.