In the next month or so i will be in the market for a 42" Plasma, would love to get the new Panasonic V20 but im not sure the budget will stretch to it, looking more in the $1200-$1500 range. Parents have a 50" G10 plasma and it just blows all the lcds ive watched out of the water, not sure i could go back to an lcd now. In parents houses and batches i regularly watch 40" LCDs (Sony S series and an older v series) and the blacks just dont cut it for me.
Will be mostly used for Freeview HD, will also be hooked up to a my sky hdi through a splitter aswell as a PS3 for gaming and blu ray movies. PS3 games with lots of dark scenes are so difficult to play on an lcd (ended up pumping the brightness way up just to see where im going in and it looks horrible) admitedly they are fairly low end lcds ive been using (low end Sonys mentioned above).
The obvious choice should be a Panasonic U20 but in store i havent been overly impressed with them, last years G10's looked alot better in store in my opinion. Are Samsung or LG making anything worth looking at with their new models? Or can i be convinced the U20 will look ok properly callibrated at home?
