Affordable Kuros are still 720p/1080i. Going up in size would get you 1080p, but going up in size also means going up in debt too.

It's funny that stores like Harvey Norman only put them Kuros on sizes below 50 inches, perhaps because anything beyond 50 inches are also beyond the grasp of the general public, monetary-wise?

Dont get me wrong, i'd love to get me some Kuros, but until they either start denominating the price down or adding 1080p into smaller Kuros (preferably 42in), it will stay and remain only in my short list.

It is a good option for those who had not migrated onto any HDTVs, but to those wanting to see if it is worth upgrading from their current HDTVs, even those HD-ready ones, the benefits are not that enticing, at least not to me.

1080p Kuros or them 768p native? Coz the only 1080p Kuros are that singular 50 incher PDP-LX508/5080D variation and that crazy 60 incher PDP-LX608/6080D version that is im sure out of our grasps.

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Jan 3 2008, 12:23 AM

1080p Kuros at that price? PM me the address, can?

Most probably no. A 1080p Kuro would be at minimum 50 inch, and if you can see the pic of my setup, no way that Magiker cabinet can fit/hold in 50 inch. My room is small.

The price is seductive, but im space-constrained.

LA. That one have to discuss with my beloved there, cannot simply make my own decision. Like all wives, girlfriends and fiancees, these women dont understand our need for better "teebee" as you put it. They would question why we need another one when the one we have now is more than enough for our needs. I had prepared a long speech to get her convinced , plus a trip to Best Buy to see the Kuro in action would definitely help swaying her mind.

She's happy with the Samsung M8 we bought for her Wii, so i need more solid excuses to get her off the M8.

Welwitchia,

Just got off Ryan from Pioneer Malaysia, i was asking him about the BD-LX70A BD player. Asked him about the current Kuro models too, and the Kuro 42inch is RM9,999 while the Kuro 50 inch is priced at RM16,999 and of XGA scale, meaning it is only 768p. If you wanna go 1080p on the Kuros, you need to go up to the 50 and 60 inch model, which are priced at......*drumroll* RM34,999 and RM45,999 respectively. I nearly choked when Ryan revealed that.

Ahahaha, or like the Japanese say ..."mati kudasai!"

This applies to plasma only, they run on those native resolution per screen size. You can squeeze more pixel density into LCD TVs, hence why you see 37 and 40 inchers with 1080p.

As for whether you can see the difference between 720p/768p and 1080p at those sizes, that is a subjective matter. Personally, i could. Others may beg to differ.

Because at that screen size, some of us can see the difference between 720p/768p and 1080p. I mean, sure....i love how plasma recreates the correct and natural color tones and paints the deepest blacks, but i treasure higher resolution more than those. A lot of people dont know that you dont judge those LCDs and plasma arrays you see on display at showrooms immediately, because they are not calibrated. A proper calibration will get you close enough to how them plasma look, albeit with reduced black levels. That is good enough for me, and that is what i did to my Bravia X.