Audioholics Amigos! Well, After looking at several plasmas in the 50-60 inch range and after countless hours, research, material demoes, video tests, and litteraly hours of comparisions I have made my choice. I simply fell in love with the picture quality of the PRO-1540HD. I know there are allot of Panny, Sony, Samsung and Fujistu plasma backers out there, but this set just blew my eyes away in terms of picture quality, contrast and color accuracy especially in HD content. Even 480i/p material and that crappy analog/digital CATV signal looked marvelous..ok not so much analog cable, but let me tell you it was the closest I have seen to a CRT image in terms of color reproduction, contrast and black color on those dark scenes.
Ever seen an analog or so called "digital" cable/sateliite signal on large LCD's and plasma's? That is when reality sets in for most people that spend a $hit load of money on a new plasma or lcd display only to realize over 90% of current material is still 480i/480p material and now the picure is worse than that old analog CRT tube tv they replaced.
But to my excitement the Pioneer Elite 1540HD was by far the best plasma my eyes have seen...pending of course the 1080p version of this set when announced. than again any 1080p material is virtually non existent outside of the HD/Blu-ray DVD material and no current tv channels are broadcasting anything in this resolution unless of course you count 1080i material---- so this 720p will suit all my needs for now and since it supports a 1080p signal.
With that said I plunged over the $$ and will have it delivered over the weekend and cannot wait to plug away. My question is I haven't seen or heard much about this set here or anywhere else. I have seen tons of reviews for the 50" inch version including the PRO-FHD1 nothing on this 60" inch version.
Anyone else out here have this set and what are your opinions about it. Now I could have purchased the "newer" 50" 1080p PRO-FHD1, for about $1000 bucks more, however since my viewing distance will be at about 10-12 feet away the 720p resolution and 1080p resolutions would be irrelevant at this distance. To my eyes I couldn't distinguish the resolution between the two sets.
Plus for 10 more inches, the PRO-1540HD comes with dual NTSC and ATSC Tuners with the CableCARD interface built in, ethernet port for media gallery, speakers and stand and has the ability to accept a 1080p/24Hz signal, i couldn't have wrong ...right?
Any thoughts, comments?
