Tx for the clarification and you are right, I'm used to the bluish white as I like brighter display. Learnt something today from a real sifu here on the correct white balance .

Once calibrated to D65, u can get brighter whites. That's one of the advantages of calibration.

Eh dun poison me la bro, I'm trying to convince myself to buy based on need not based on how much money I can afford to spend!

I have talked to more people about the 200Hz thing. Seems it really only matter most during live TV broadcast like football and other sports channel, which are captured in 50/60Hz. As for movies, even action films, the capture source is 24Hz and the best way to view it is in 24Hz itself. I have even seen recommendations to turn off those 100/120/200/240 enhancement while watching 24p film to avoid the unwanted "soap opera" effect.

Of course, ZV has the option to enable or disable Clearscan 200 as you wish, whereas RV doesn't have the option at all. But I think I can live without it since I seldom watch live sports channel.

I think I'm also not so worried about the 10-bit color processing since I did not find any banding issues with the display set at the shop.

As for Resolution+, I think it will become less important once everything starts moving to HD already.

So now, the only dealbreaker left is the glare panel vs matte panel. I haven't seen an actual ZV set before so I dunno, but the SA say I can refer to Samsung Series-6 and above to get an idea of glare panel. To me, it's true it looks nicer even when the TV is switched off. But the 25% price premium is still giving myself a lot of thinking to do for now

If someone wants to sponsor me the 25% for sure I will grab ZV la

I wish I have such knowledge in base colors management to gain the most advantages out of it . Now could only adjust them base on my bare eyes until I'm satisfied with the end result

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Added on February 8, 2010, 8:57 pmYour SA is correct, the glare panel looks similar to those glare type of Samsung 6 series and above. Why don't you go to other shops to check it out yourself as I believe one of these shops should have it as display unit kua

No body could poison you lah if you already know exactly what you want . Since you don't fancy all these features in the ZV series then the RV should be good enough for you as 25% price premium may not sound justifiable just for the glare panel.

Try to ask your family members to share share lah since everyone will be watching the same tv




This post has been edited by darenlks: Feb 8 2010, 08:57 PM

Yeah! Bought already! No need to crack my head anymore!

My 42RV600E arriving tomorrow!

Thanks for all your recommendations!

Congrats bro and enjoy your new tv

This post has been edited by darenlks: Feb 9 2010, 01:05 AM

gald to hear that.

how much ar???

Congrats.. 35% less power consumption than 42ZV600E
Save the planet

RM3000 inclusive of wall bracket and installation. Lowest price I could find at Penang

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Added on February 9, 2010, 3:15 pmYeah, one of the reason that helped me settle on my final decision

And thanks to all, this thread has given me all the confidence I need to get a Toshiba LCD TV. I will definitely enjoy my new TV! Arriving anytime now...

This post has been edited by Bart-man: Feb 9 2010, 03:15 PM

Got my 42RV600E yesterday and spent whole night setting it up and enjoying it. Love it very much!

Many people told me that analog TV reception using aerial is very poor quality for LCD TV compared to CRT, but this set has no such problem! I dun have astro yet, so I got TV1, TV2, TV3, NTV7, 8TV and TV9 all tuned in via analog aerial. All are very clear, no noise at all, basically comparable to astro output!

Upscaling from SD content is great for this set as well despite the lack of Resolution+ like the ZV series. The best part is the "Super Live" feature, making all my 4:3 content appear full screen without looking "fat"! Totally impressed by the technology!

Wish I could post some photos but LYN is having some upload issue now later lah...

Glad to hear that, enjoy your TV.
Actually, if you can receive TV signal clearly using normal TV antenna, it's better than Astro SD channel on LCD TV. (from my observation)
So, this is time to get Astro Byond...

This post has been edited by eMKs: Feb 10 2010, 06:28 PM

Glad to see someone who speaks my language! Many just dont understand...enhancement colors are just a mask or makeups, natural color is what one oughta look for.

Are you from Mars ?

Most of the tvs now could produce natural color with billion or even trillion of colors they could display, it's just up to the owner to tweak the base color to the right level for the desired output

tempted to get 42RV600E too.. but at the same time i'm considering panasonic TH-L42S18k.. anyone with the later can provide some advice? thanks!

Here is a photo of my new TV

clean and nice!!!

how is the motion flow? 100 hz capable?

so clean...but i prefer panasonic....panny-fanboy

Thanks! But that's becoz it's rather empty now... time to get some game console, media player, sleek HTPC...