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Originally Posted by daleb
Neither Panasonic or Samsung is right behind Kuro. You are half right. 
The differences are not significant between Pan & Sam, nor were they last year.
Panasonic has a little better black level, the Samsung a little better color accuracy. Comes down more to personal taste.
Many prefer Panasonic because of their stellar rep for reliability over pretty much anything else, including Pioneer.
But when it comes to performance the Kuro is the leader of the pack (still). |
I kind of agree with your observations. Yes color accuracy is better on the Samsung B860 and it lead to an overall better pq when viewing general content. Pasnasonic's V10 has slightly better black level than Samsung's B860.
Also Panasonic's extra layer of glass made off angle viewing a little disappointing when high contrast scenes came on as you can see the double image as it reflects inside the sandwiched glass panels. It looks like Samsung went the way of the Kuro with one less layer of glass in the pdp construction.
All of the calibrators, my custom a/v techs and myself expected the V10 to perform better than the other panels (other than the KRP-500M with it's 10g glass and ISFccc day night modes). We were surprised to see Samsung's B860 come in ahead of the V10. Overall, Panasonic's V10 is an excellent HDTV.
And it's true I was banned for life by the management of AVS Forum. I'm shocked and dismayed by what is clearly a mistake and very poor judgment.
-Robert