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I like the Panasonic and Fujitsu plasmas. They do have quite good black levels, but, not nearly as good as a CRT. CRTs manage to get good black levels AND good detail in dark areas of the screen, while a lot of plasmas cheat a little with the gamma curve to get a darker picture at some cost in detail. But, as I said, plasmas are quite good.

My issue with plasmas lie elsewhere. To get the theater experience one needs a very big plasma or to sit relatively close to the screen. Neither works well with plasmas because the pixel structure becomes very annoying. That is true with a 34" CRT as well, but I find MP3 artifacts (mosquito noise, blockiness, etc) more annoying with fixed pixel devices than with CRTs.

I wish there were an ideal display device that combined all of the strengths of the best technologies and none of the weaknesses. I have the Qualia 006 rear projection set. It is, in my opinion, the best such set available, but it too, has many problems. Chief among the problems is "false contouring" which manifests itself as blotchy patches in dark solid areas of the picture in low light scenes, particularly problematic with low resolution source material. While this is an issue with all digital display devices, it seems to be particularly annoying with this set. It seems that the better a set looks with good material, the worse it performs with bad source material. I think CRTs perform with better with bad sources than do other technologies.

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