Samsung's F8500 PDP owners thread with reviews

[Robert Zohn]

Kevin just left after a very long day evaluating and calibrating the 60" F8500. We have the 51", 60" and 64" but the 64" does not have enough hours on it and we ran out of time so no work was done on the 51".

The report is preliminary as much more work needs to be done to do a proper evaluation, but here's what I can share at the moment. Hopefully we'll have more technical information by tomorrow evening and we scheduled next Friday to evaluate and calibrate the 64" and 51".

Here's some information and measurements from the PN60F8500:

After calibrating the movie mode (we found the Movie mode to be the best for night calibration) for night performance the MLL is 0.001, Peak luminance is 41.8fl

Gamma was easily set to 2.5 and was as flat as a pancake, very excellent results.

In Cal Day the peak luminance was set to 66fl.

3D performance was excellent and through the glasses the luminance level was 17.5fl, very acceptable for 3D.

We very carefully compared the picture quality of our perfectly calibrated 65" VT50 butt next to the F8500 and to the eye they looked very very similar. The F8500 is a little brighter, but colors looked almost identical as did the detail, black level and color saturation.

With the Samsung F8500 in Cal day and the VT50 in ISF day the Samsung was much brighter and held its black level.

Just wanted to give you some interesting preliminary facts. Stay tuned for more as we do more evaluation.

-Robert