Why I bought this one?

I'd like to share my thought of process in buying this TV.
First, I wanted at least 46" for viewing at 10' under $1300. My first choice was LCD with 1080P of course since it seems like everyone is going toward the LCD. I primarily watch sport and movie, not really plan for gaming. From reading from many resources (Amazon's user review, [...].), watching at different stores (Fry's, Bestbuy, Sears) in more than 10 visits, I concluded that plasma is better way to go in many reasons. From my eyes, I think plasma produces a better picture quality than LCD. Image quality from plasma looks more natural and not flat (don't know how to explain). Comparing color, plasma generates better skin tone (in photography or flesh tone in (probably) videography???) and a lot cheaper.

I was worried about power consumption and dimmer picture comparing to LCD (when viewing in stores). Both of them are not really major issues at all at home. First I tried to find that how much it's gonna cost me for watching this big screen TV. I looked at the back of the screen and found that the maximum power consumption rated is 360W. That's one-quart of my portable oil radiation heater, not a big deal. For your information, 300W will cost you 3cent for an hour of usage. For the dimmed picture (like the picture is under-exposure in photography), I thought it should be ok in my apartment.

The next thing was 720P or 1080P. I went to stores and checked by myself that I can distinguish the difference (I consider my eyes are pretty good at this). From less than 5', I can see that the pixel for 720P is bigger than the pixel of 1080P. That means from less than 5' you will see the 720P has less detail. However, I will be watching at 8'-10' which is not a problem at all. The 720P set was located side-by-side to the $1700 Samsung LCD and I watched both of them from 8' away and there's no different in resolution. I thought that I'm not gonna pay extra $700 for that for sure.

Next thing you're gonna be worried was image retention (IR) and burn-in. If you understand how it works, you will know how to avoid that problems. From normal TV watching, there's no way that your TV will have a burn-in or IR plus the TV set provides the pixel shift function to avoid the problem in case you play a game and sleep while the screen shows still image. If you feel sleepy, just turn off your TV and go to bed. Don't waste your money of electric bill.

Only one pitfall I see is there's only 3 HDMI ports

One thing that I don't understand, the PN50B450's response time is 0.001ms (way way shorter than regular LCD (4-6ms) and refresh rate at 600Hz which 5-time better than higher level LCD (120Hz), but when I watch Giants, I can see that it's not fast enough when the comcast graphic is flashing (pixelette). There's not problem at all for normal game play. So I don't know how LCD or LED are going to handle this. Maybe it's from the source (I subscribe to Comcast HD).

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**Sorry for my English, it's not my native language