Hey I work at Best Buy and I've been wondering the same thing about the pioneers. The 42" is indeed a closeout but I think there was just a shortage on the 5080s. I have one so I sell the shit out of them and when we were running out of stock it was killing me. The last two truck have had 5 on them. Maybe there is hope, or I'm just wishful thinking but I think they will be sticking around for just a little longer.

jeff is you sit closer than 12 feet and watch alot of movies and will be getting a next gen dvd player go 1080p. If not go with the best color and forget 1080p and go with the pioneer 50" plasma.

my best buy just increased the size of its bluray and hddvd section. The bluray came from 4' to 16' and the hddvd came from4' to 8'. It was a blow to the gut to see all the blueray because my money is invested in hddvd.

wow thanks alot. Directv just came out to my apartment and said they could not install because we don't have line of sight. Our apartment will not let us mount it to the roof but when they see this I think we can figure out something.

I would like to start off with apologizing for mixing black levels and color accuracy. I do know they are not the same, but I feel my points are still valid. I think over saturated is a better word for the lcds.

Straight out of the box any of the lcd cheap to expensive are going to look over saturated. To me this is noticeable even in a brightly lit retail store. And of course best buy isn't the best place to compare tv's but how many people have a theater room they can freely test out lcd and plasmas most people relie on place like best buy to compare the two. And then even seeing the difference some want the brightest picture over most accurate and prefer lcd.

And as far as the calibration of course a big box retailer isn't going to calibrate any of their tv's. And probally 9 out of every 10 hdtv buyers won't either, but with that said of course a calibrated tv is going to look better. Thats why people pay technicians hundreds of dollars to calibrater their tv. The technology of plasma can get more accurate colors than lcd hands down and a little bit of research reveals that. So if we compare apples to apples a calibrated expensive plasma to a calibrated expensive lcd the plasma will always have the more accurate color.

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Vince the plasma vs lcd argument ins't about detail its about color accuracy. Yea most lcd have more detail because they are 1080p, but the color accuracy just isn't there. Go to best buy wait for the pioneer commercial to come on and compare the black levels of any plasma and the best lcd. The plasma is always going to win because lcd is blacklit. Because of the better black levels a plasma can get more natural colors. This will be most noticable in skin tones. Find a plasma and an lcd and just compare skin tones. The lcd is going to look a little washed out.

and Mike I sure am glad your playing halo 3 on an xbox 360 that goes to a screensaver after a few hours inactivity, or even better and conserve a bit of energy and have the xbox turn off when you leave it idle. But for some crazy reason you went and turned off that factory default setting and it would have been burned why not get one of "this year model" plasmas with orbital pixels or the abilty to white wash and not worry about burn in anymore.

True that TrentD.

i scrobbler sinkss with last.fm based on recent plays so you will be able to sync with iphone or networked macs all you have to do is plug up your ipod after you listen to whatever to ivoke the sync. If you play a song before you sync all will be lost because last.fm uses the time stamps to keep people from cheating the system. Its not the best workaround but maybe someone will find this useful. I used it to log my ours of music played while playing oblivion on my xbox360 and it worked great.

my iphone is lasting about a day also with pretty heavy use. The new still hasn't wore off so im constantly toying with it all day.

who would want a headset if they had an iphone. I would want to pull out the iphone every time i had a chance.