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Article: Panasonic TH-50PHD7UY display: a business-class plasma that delivers cinema-quality video.(ROI reviews)
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- Studio Monthly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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Panasonic claims a 3000:1 contrast ratio and 11-bit dynamic range for its new 50-inch color gas plasma display, the TH50PHD7UY. Naturally, I wasted no time putting this claim to the test. After unpacking the double-boxed wide-screen behemoth, I lunged at it with DVDs in-hand, eager to bear witness to the fruit of its efforts to combine studio-quality gray scale and theater-grade contrast in a relatively inexpensive large-format, direct-view display device.
Trusting the nominal factory settings to be adequate for a first peek, I shuttled through a dozen or so scenes from my standard set of reviewing videos. Almost at once, a sinking feeling began to capsize my ...