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I looked all over the forum to try to find some opinions of video gear. Naturally being an audio forum, one should not expect this. So rather my question is this: are there any videophile's out there amongst our 350 members that could give me any valuable advice on today's ever evolving technology in the television market?
Many times if not most often when we reference ourselves to seeking audio purity; and we are building a home theater system, the two usually are married together. And we desire superb video to go with our equally superb audio. Or at least what "feels" superb to each individual.
My quandry consists of trying to decide between purchasing the best Plasma display Panasonic manufactures ZT series, as I have researched and been told that this is the last they will make in plasmas and is currently the best on the market today. Finally besting the Pioneer Kuro. I was also told that that's as far as Panasonic 's engineers can go in picture quality and no more research will be done with this technology. My guess is it will now be spent on the new OLED. BUT.......with the emerging market of 4K......... Should I maybe thinking about holding off? I certainly don't want to get trapped in the chasm of time that was lost between the making of the kuro to today's ZT. Waiting until NOW just to get the picture quality we had five years ago? Don't want to go there again. And by the time OLED becomes affordable in large screen sizes..... Well lets just say that was my line of thinking on the kuro's and look how that turned out? They exited the market all be it expensively. Hence, I waited five years with no big screen since nobody could approach what Pioneer did cost effectively.
So..... Hopefully I can get some great insight from my fellow members here. Even though this is an audio site. And if you have a good suggestion as far as referring me to a forum that does video; please share. Much appreciated!
Many times if not most often when we reference ourselves to seeking audio purity; and we are building a home theater system, the two usually are married together. And we desire superb video to go with our equally superb audio. Or at least what "feels" superb to each individual.
My quandry consists of trying to decide between purchasing the best Plasma display Panasonic manufactures ZT series, as I have researched and been told that this is the last they will make in plasmas and is currently the best on the market today. Finally besting the Pioneer Kuro. I was also told that that's as far as Panasonic 's engineers can go in picture quality and no more research will be done with this technology. My guess is it will now be spent on the new OLED. BUT.......with the emerging market of 4K......... Should I maybe thinking about holding off? I certainly don't want to get trapped in the chasm of time that was lost between the making of the kuro to today's ZT. Waiting until NOW just to get the picture quality we had five years ago? Don't want to go there again. And by the time OLED becomes affordable in large screen sizes..... Well lets just say that was my line of thinking on the kuro's and look how that turned out? They exited the market all be it expensively. Hence, I waited five years with no big screen since nobody could approach what Pioneer did cost effectively.
So..... Hopefully I can get some great insight from my fellow members here. Even though this is an audio site. And if you have a good suggestion as far as referring me to a forum that does video; please share. Much appreciated!