'We expect the picture quality of the 50-inch model to provide a good indication of how the 42-incher will perform.'
'built-in NTSC tuner'
'Rather than get overly technical in an attempt to explain what we think we gleaned from test patterns, let me just tell you what I saw with real-world content.'
'The redesigned Panasonic TH-50PX77U is one of the better-looking plasmas we've reviewed in the last year.'
'beautiful, natural colors'
'Don't confuse it with the "antireflective" coating applied to the screens of the more-expensive TH-PZ700U and TH-PZ750U series; Panasonic's antiglare coating, if it performs as well on the PZ77s as it did on the PX77s, does the best job of attenuating glare from room lighting of any plasma we've tested yet.'
'despite Samsung's "true black" advertising (which pertains to the 65F and not the 61F), after calibration it was often difficult to tell which one displayed a deeper color of black.'
'For what it's worth, Samsung sent us a firmware update that worked with both sets to fix the deinterlacing of video-based, but not film-based, 1080i content and to show every line of a 1080-resolution test pattern.'
