Hi all, I have use the Panasonic P50VT20K 50" plasma TV for 4 years.
No complain on the PQ.

I did get a replacement on the faulty unit, 3 months later due to a defect on TV where strange line is seen on TV.
After the replacement, this TV just so good to watch.

Two years back planned to upgrade to P65ST50K 65" plasma TV, which sold for just RM5999, but let go the deal, since the 50" plasma still very ok.

Then 2 weeks ago, saw a LG OLED 55" Full HD Curved TV sold for RM7999 at one shop.
Tempting on the OLED, never interested in 4K TV.

Normally I hook up Bluray Home Theater for watching movie and listen to music from music video stream from DLNA.

Haha.... actually the OLED is still very new, and the TV is CURVED.
Not much interested in curved tv also.
But the OLED black is black, the color can further improved though.

Regarding the brightness, I do own a very cheap LED LCD TV, and I turn down the brightness to just 25%.
Only thing bugs me is they never look more natural than a good plasma. Viewing angle is also a problem too.

This is easy, I will choose OLED over the 4K LCD anytime.

As one online TV reviewer said, 4K LCD is just an old type tyre with minor upgrade.
OLED is a totally brand new type tyre.

Waiting for OLED TV become more common and come down in price.

Yes, should be this model.

Your TV comes with the paper manual right?
Read through the manual will find the 4th HDMI.

Agree, all HDMI cable is the same. Just bought a cheap 5 meter HDMI cable for RM35, can run all stuff, including 3D without issue.

For the sharpness, every TV has a setting to adjust sharpness. Normally I just let the setting to 0, and 0 is the actual pixel to pixel mapping.
This can be verified by connecting computer or laptop, and view the text for comparison.
Normally I open up web browsing. The text on website address is the one to verify.

At 0, the text will look normal. By increasing sharpness, the text will look fuzzy, some pixel just become missing.
Then, by decreasing sharpness, below 0, negative, the text become fatter and fatter.

I don't want to argue much here.
There is a website comparing on all kind of HDMI cable, and claimed that all HDMI cable, cheapest and most expensive, all coming out with the same result.
HDMI only work, or totally cannot work, because it is digital, means it is only 2 state, got picture, or no picture.
That website also using a cheap non-certified HDMI cable to test for 4K TV too, and end out can work without any issue.

Actually shopper even worse, they use just composite cable for 720p video, that's why they look bad.
Actually 720p video when hook up with HDMI, they looks very good, very close to 1080p until very hard to differentiate. I am talking on Bluray 720p. DVD actually contain much less detail.

Finally got a chance to view side by side between LG Oled 55" and LG 4K 55", running a 1080p content.

No doubt, the OLED TV hands down is much better than the 4K.
Detail wise, even a good demo disc is played, the detail level of the OLED is much more pronounce, due to much higher contrast, and much saturated color, but this is unnatural. The OLED screen virtually don't has any reflection, despite the store's very bright lights, and real deep black is guarantee.

Stand around 4 to 5 feet away, virtually no pixel can be seem, both screen look as sharp, less than 3 feet, you can start seeing the OLED TV look a bit fuzzy, the 4K will remain smooth, but sharpness still the same, just that the 4K pixel filling over the gap between pixel, until you can't notice any pixel, even stand close up to few inch away also hardly notice the pixel, but rarely stand so close to watch TV.

Just hope more OLED TV could be release for next year, probably Panasonic could have sold their very 1st OLED TV by next year.

The lighting on both screen is ok for my eye.
The OLED screen I see here is brighter than the 4K TV, so brightness is not an issue, since they want to attract customer, they simply just push the higher brightness.
But those can be adjusted to our liking.

No need bring own movie for testing, just buy it by referring online reviews.
The review did complain on the sub par video processing and inaccurate colors renderring, then also dislike the curve screen distortion.
But at least, it is ranked among the top 10 best TV you can buy, in term of picture quality.

I remember when I buy my 1st Full HD TV, the Panasonic plasma, I buy it without any demo test and any second though, just buy it when it's price drop drastically until 20% from the original price, because I know Plasma will never look good enough at store compare side by side to LED LCD.


Same story happen again when I buy a Cinavia free Bluray player, they connect to a cheap LCD TV with composite video. I don't care again, they purposely do this to make the picture bad, and just bring up movie and media for testing the Cinavia problem.
Also buy it after verify it is Cinavia free.

This post has been edited by Alan Yee: Nov 19 2015, 12:18 PM

Touch wood, my Panasonic Plasma also has vertical line before.
Ask for changing the TV because TV still under warranty. (That time Panasonic offer 3 year warranty, and can purchase for 2 more year warranty)

It took me month to phone them and urge them to replace my TV, and they finally change it after 1 month.
Now the replaced TV is working without any issue.

Now all TV should be just 1 or 2 year warranty.
Due to cost margin, they keep all manufacturing process in low cost, skipping the QC, using cheaper part.

Every electronic product has quality issue, even the pricier product can breakdown easily too.
Some recommend to pay around RM100 for extra years warranty, one to one replacement or repair without any cost.

It won't settle the quality issue, but at least is covered.

This one on promotion with RM999 only at Senheng or SenQ.
I don't think you able to watch digital TV, because no actual service provider in Malaysia.

Finally, today I bring my own Bluray Disc to the electrical store to test the Samsung 4K TV, and quantum dot Samsung SUHD 4K TV. There is a cheap 48" Full HD TV beside. The 4K TV is of 65", 60", and 55".

After comparing those high end and non high end TV, here's my thought:

1. 4K up-scaling is just a gimmick.
- The level of detail just look the same among the high end and non high end 4K TV, and also look the same on the 1080p TV.
- When load in the same material, they all look the same.

2. Motion Interpolation / 120Hz / 240Hz just look bad, even the Samsung SUHD 4K TV has mediocre processing.
- I don't turn on this feature on all of my TV that I buy, but these high end TV look worse than my 5 year old Plasma TV with motion interpolation turn on.
- Artifact is seen every where.
- I turn off all the motion interpolation on those TV hanging on the wall, then comes the next problem. (motion blur)

3. Everything that feel bad on LED LCD TV
- I have a relatively cheap 40" LED LCD TV, which I complain on the bad motion blur, bad picture noise handling, and poor viewing angle, these high end TV just look the same. I particularly picky on the motion blur caused by LCD, and all LCD TV at the wall exhibit the same behavior. I thought as those are movie blurring or motion judder, so I set the Bluray Player to output in 24p mode, the motion blur is still there. Judder and blur are so much pronounce on 4K TV.

Conclusion, plasma TV is still the best TV around.
Every LCD TV just look almost the same, no matter how they claim how high end they are.
This is verified when all are input with the same Bluray source.

It depend on the source, when the source is native 60i (30p) or 60p, the blur effect is reduced.
When watching film based content, like all the Bluray Disc, which output native 24p, or so called conversion to 60p (3:2) pull down by the player itself, the blur is not reduced much.

For normal viewing, people may get used to that kind of blur, but when compared to plasma TV, simply these become a nightmare.

Well, it is not just the contrast that matter, but motion too.
OLED TV may drop to the price similar to 4K LCD TV, that something people can afford, and slowly replacing LCD market.

Every brand LED LCD behave almost the same. They may able to improve the contrast with Local Dimming LED, but still fall short on motion blur handling. Their only approach is engaging the motion interpolation to eliminate the blur, but this make the picture so unnatural. It is still ok to watch movie with less action, but you will see the different when watching heavy action movie.

And for the warranty of 5 year, if they can't repair it, they will force you to get an LCD TV as their replacement model, because no more new Plasma TV, no new model in the market.

So, really only can pray our TV don't died some day.

I give up my 6 years old Panasonic P50VT20K plasma long ago for its smart and streaming feature.
Now I mostly rely on Bluray and H264 video file for highest possible quality playback.
I stream video via DLNA to Bluray player, then output to the TV.

Using PS3, PS4, Xbox One?
Signal can be easily set to 1080p, but the console that render it may not.

So, your TV really is receiving 1080p signal, but the game itself is not.

Recommend buying a cheap Bluray player or Media Player will solve these issue, of course between the 2, Bluray player is much more worth than a Media Player, as Bluray player actually are much more stable, and play ability also much higher, and pricing can be cheaper too.

Yes, fork out extra money buying these may be redundant as the TV should able to play these file and SRT stuff without issue, but standalone players playback is much better than those TV built in playback codec.

But, if you are talking on SRT stuff, my Bluray player actually can played those subtitle that is embedded into the MKV file without issue, even running on DLNA stream video from my PC.
But, I need to embed these SRT file into the MKV myself 1st before able to play correctly.
The MKV remux software also can pre-select the font type of the SRT to further solving character decoding issue, especially the UNICODE Chinese character.