Panasonic TH-50PHD8UK 50-Inch Plasma HDTV
The best plasma for the money
I've had experience with several HDTVs and this one is the best especially at this price. This is actually a commercial model TV which is a good thing. You don't have to pay for extra speakers and a tuner you won't use and its a generation ahead of consumer models in display tech. <br /> <br />Forget having to tweak the settings all day using a setup DVD to get the best picture, this thing looked amazing out of the box. I barely had to change anything to get a perfect picture. My old Sony HDTV required hours of tweaking to get anywhere near the image quality. <br /> <br />I've never seen a better picture than this TV displaying from an HD-DVD. Its simply like you are looking through a window. <br /> <br />In regards to the person saying you have to buy an add-on board for 'consumer' component inputs, he is wrong. This TV comes with the component input board and you just have to buy BNC->RCA adaptors to connect up to it. Whoever made him buy a consumer component input board just robbed him of 120 bucks when he could of just bought the BNC adaptors for 5 bucks. <br /> <br />However you DO have to buy an HDMI input board if you want HDMI. It is recommended with this set because of this (from Panasonics info page): \\"Up to 2,048 shades of gradation (4,096 shades via HDMI or DVI connection)\\". I'm not sure why that is.