Samsung's F8500 PDP owners thread with reviews

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Originally Posted by Sixx

I have a VT65 in my main system. I'm hearing the comparison is all personal preference( and obviously settings). I'll be surprised if the Sammy is a better performer, except for more well lit rooms. Congrats on your new display!

From what I can see, its not a personal opinion. If you haven't noticed, I own both the ZT60 and F8500. 65" and 64" respectively. The performance gap in 3D is very very obvious.

To put this in data we can understand:

ZT60 3D tops out at just 5.0 ftL.

The F8500 tops out over 12 ftL. Thats more than twice as bright.

Also, the interlaced reset pulses are disabled in the ZT60/VT60 in order to achieve maximum brightness. This is why the letterbox bars are noticeably brighter ( worse ) in 3D mode. Its obvious Panasonic engineers tried to maximize brightness output as much as possible through this sleight of hand.