Panasonic vs Samsung Plasma

My friend told me that Panasonic buys their screens from Samsung and that no matter what samsung is the better buy even if it cost a bit more. Is this true? And if Panasonic does buy their screens from Samsung wouldnt the quality be the same?

I have one more questions do the ultra thin plasmas (the ones that are only an inch thick) have a worse picture than the normal ones?

AFAIK, Panasonic's plasma technology is their own and for the record, they've now bought out Pioneer's technology. Samsung shouldn't have any involvment with them.

ok if they are different which brand has better picture quality?

and do the ultra thin plasmas have a lower quality picture or does the slim body not affect the picture quality?

ok if they are different which brand has better picture quality?

and do the ultra thin plasmas have a lower quality picture or does the slim body not affect the picture quality?

Thanks guys for answering my questions my friend is a dumbass

Your friend is a dumbass. And btw, the best Panasonic out as of now is the VT25 Series. Best Samsung is the 8000. Both great plasmas.

just bought a panasonic 50" viera plasma..it's amazing. you can't really go wrong with either one, really.

I just got back from Best Buy. I know it's not a good place to judge, but the Panasonic plasmas didn't look all that great. I need a new TV soon, so I was looking. The blacks on the Panasonic weren't that impressive either. But, I did like how there wasn't that double "ghost" image when viewed from the side. I'm undecided. I may wait for the 2011 plasmas. Aren't the Panasonics supposed to have more Kuro tech?

I just got back from Best Buy. I know it's not a good place to judge, but the Panasonic plasmas didn't look all that great. I need a new TV soon, so I was looking. The blacks on the Panasonic weren't that impressive either. But, I did like how there wasn't that double "ghost" image when viewed from the side. I'm undecided. I may wait for the 2011 plasmas. Aren't the Panasonics supposed to have more Kuro tech?

WiiRocks66

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I just got back from Best Buy. I know it's not a good place to judge, but the Panasonic plasmas didn't look all that great. I need a new TV soon, so I was looking. The blacks on the Panasonic weren't that impressive either. But, I did like how there wasn't that double "ghost" image when viewed from the side. I'm undecided. I may wait for the 2011 plasmas. Aren't the Panasonics supposed to have more Kuro tech?

NVIDIATI

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[QUOTE="WiiRocks66"]

I just got back from Best Buy. I know it's not a good place to judge, but the Panasonic plasmas didn't look all that great. I need a new TV soon, so I was looking. The blacks on the Panasonic weren't that impressive either. But, I did like how there wasn't that double "ghost" image when viewed from the side. I'm undecided. I may wait for the 2011 plasmas. Aren't the Panasonics supposed to have more Kuro tech?

WiiRocks66

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[QUOTE="WiiRocks66"]

I just got back from Best Buy. I know it's not a good place to judge, but the Panasonic plasmas didn't look all that great. I need a new TV soon, so I was looking. The blacks on the Panasonic weren't that impressive either. But, I did like how there wasn't that double "ghost" image when viewed from the side. I'm undecided. I may wait for the 2011 plasmas. Aren't the Panasonics supposed to have more Kuro tech?

WiiRocks66

??? Plasma can show truer blacks than LCD because plasma can completely turn off each individual pixel. "When light hits a plasma it turns their blacks grey" is actually true for LCD as LCD always has a back-lit source which prevents true "inky black levels" that are possible from plasma. Localized LED dimming on LCD's attempt to solve this by shutting off the backlight in darker areas of a screen so that the native resolution can get better on LCD's . This helps, but no LCD has a native contrast ratio better than the best plasmas out there.rastan

I have one question about this. If a plasma can turn it's pixels off, how come it can't show true blacks? OLEDs display black in the same way, but they have true blacks. I was reading avsforums and there was something about a discharge the pixel gives off when displaying blacks that prevents them from being true black.

Unfortunately the big box stores and their setups do no justice to PQ. You used to sometimes be able to see the better TV's in "theater rooms" inside the stores, but even that is going away. Fortunately I live in an area that has quite a few specialty A/V shops that can properly display and show the benefits of a properly calibrated good TV. Unfortunately for plasma, many if the benefits that they hold over LCD are very hard to show on a brightly lit showroom floor where the brightest set usually stands out more than anything else.rastan

??? Plasma can show truer blacks than LCD because plasma can completely turn off each individual pixel. "When light hits a plasma it turns their blacks grey" is actually true for LCD as LCD always has a back-lit source which prevents true "inky black levels" that are possible from plasma. Localized LED dimming on LCD's attempt to solve this by shutting off the backlight in darker areas of a screen so that the native resolution can get better on LCD's . This helps, but no LCD has a native contrast ratio better than the best plasmas out there.rastan