Well, Samsung always claimed that they have the highest contrast and brightness ratios in the market but if compared to Sony's Bravia series and Panasonic' Viera series, I swore that the latter were much better looking when fed with standard definition signals and yeah, black levels sucked for LCDs but are great for games because the colours are more vivid and their panels are sharper than plasma ones. There are pros and cons but future LCDs will be much better when they can render more shades of gray, most LCDs are using 10-bit colour, hopefully, one day, they'll be using above 10-bit colour, that should render blacks much better. I wouldn't dare to use the word picture perfect but at least it comes close to the black levels of a normal CRT tv.