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Posted by Alex F. on July 14, 2013 at 14:03:41:
Last month we purchased a Sony KDL-40R450A ($439 from Amazon) for a spare room. I am impressed with its video, delivering fine black levels, nice color saturation, and a color temperature close to 6500K. No visible lag on baseball games or on highlights from the NFL channel. A very nice TV.

In the master bedroom we have a Panasonic TC-P50U50 plasma, obtained last November from Amazon for $599. Compared with all high-end LED-driven LCD televisions I've checked out in stores (recalibrated by yours truly with permission of the salesmen), the inexpensive Panasonic plasma is clearly superior.

My wife says that watching a baseball game on the plasma (via DirecTV's MLB package in HD) is akin to looking through a luxury box window at the ballpark.

The plasma is used extensively for news (CNN, etc), business channels, Blu-ray movies (with 2.35:1 letterboxing), old b&w movies on TCM (with black sidebars), and sports. The plasma has been totally immune to pixel problems and burn-in.

We have a dedicated high-end theater room, which I designed for our house when constructed 11 years ago, yet we find ourselves watching the plasma far more frequently than anticipated. We are now huge fans of Panasonic's 1080p plasma televisions.