Pioneer 508XD 50" Plasma TV

TrustedReviews Awards 2007
Best Home Entertainment
1st Place
"When we reviewed the Pioneer Kuro 508XD back in August, it was clear that this was the best plasma TV we had ever tested. And as we at TrustedReviews believe that plasma has the edge over LCD for ultimate picture quality, this could quite easily be described as the best TV in the world"" "the very best we have ever seen on a flat TV". Two grand for a telly? Bargain." http://www.trustedreviews.com/home/review/2007/11/29/TrustedReviews-Awards-2007/p6

"There’s a further stunning side effect to the black level response during dark scenes, too, in the shape of outstandingly natural colours. It’s a simple law of TV pictures that if you can’t reproduce something approaching a true black, you can’t reproduce a totally true rendition of the colour spectrum. So by getting the closest we’ve seen to a true black, the Pioneer also produces the most expansive and natural colour palette we’ve seen. And so even skin tones during dark scenes – usually such a problem for flat TVs – here look completely believable."

''Moving reluctantly on from the genuinely groundbreaking black level story, we also find the 508XD excelling in plenty of other areas. Its picture is remarkably sharp for a 1,366 x 768-resolution screen, with the most minute high definition details rendered beautifully without a trace of softness or noise. In fact, so crisp do HD pictures look that you can’t help but reflect that having a full HD pixel count can potentially have rather less impact on perceived resolution than other factors such as noise suppression and immaculate motion handling."

"Normally we like to counterbalance our praise of even the very finest TVs with a negative point or two. But try as we might, we simply can’t think of anything bad to say about the Pioneer’s pictures at all. In fact, if it wasn’t for the fact that Pioneer is flogging the screen at what has to be considered quite a premium price point, the only problem the brand might have with the 508XD is making enough of them.Normally we like to counterbalance our praise of even the very finest TVs with a negative point or two. But try as we might, we simply can’t think of anything bad to say about the Pioneer’s pictures at all. In fact, if it wasn’t for the fact that Pioneer is flogging the screen at what has to be considered quite a premium price point, the only problem the brand might have with the 508XD is making enough of them."
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