No doubt Kuro is the best but normal plasmas from LG, Panasonic, Hitachi, Haier and even Samsung looked pretty average to me but anyway, we can't deny the fact that the market for plasma tvs are shrinking, LCD tvs are taking the lead now. It's a price versus performance thingy, not everyone can afford a good plasma that's why.

Saw a hdmi player from toshiba selling for 399 at best denki klcc. Forgot the model, anyone seen it in action ? comments ?

i bought the Pioneer 400 and the start up is so slow when power is switch on.

RM399 Toshiba player? The one that can upscale to 1080i? Is this the model you're referring to, the model is 780 if I'm not mistaken.

Not sure how good is the scaling cos I havent seen it in action. Thot of asking the sifus here first
Anyway now thorn btw philips 5986 and the ns78.
Abt 100 diff and the hdmi cable.

I just bought NS78 at RM450 recently since I got a Full HD LCD so my NS76 has been transferred upstairs to my HD Ready LCD. So far so good. I know it's pricier than Philips but I'm happy with the picture quality and reliability of the player so far.

for me i still think the best bang would be NS78

The bad news will be that NS78 has been discontinued so better hurry to get one if you're interested.

alamak, so fast discon again?
NS80 coming or are they gonna sell bluray players at 1.5k each?

Sony better..quality

Anyone can share if any of Philips DVP5986k, Pioneer DV400, Sony NS78 support "Time Search" function on DivX files during playback ?

The new model is NS708, around RM499 and comes with 1 free HDMI cable. I have placed my order for that, coming next week. Maybe it's already selling in KL liao, that one I dunno lah. That's the latest model from Sony.

Even they sell the blu-ray players at RM799 also I won't buy, damn slow like kura-kura, takes 60 seconds to eject when you first switch on the unit and another 50 seconds to load the movie, so you need to spend 2 mins before the movie starts playing. PS3 is better since it plays the movie instantly. Unless if Sony can come out with better blu-ray players, I ain't gonna buy one from them.

NS708 got simi majik?

very good ar boss ?

someone recommend this DVD-S54 ? Anyone seen it in action ? About rm350. Another model DVD-S53 costs abt 500. both from panny ?

The NS708 has an improved video scaler for 1080p, the previous model, NS78H has Y/C delay and pixel cropping for upscaling to 1080p so Sony went to fix the bugs in this new model. I belum got my unit yet, still delayed but will be released soon.

Don't know how much will it cost when release in Malaysia.

I've oredi mentioned it, RM499 mah.

Oh! my mistake. Didn't see it. But, anyway thanks.

DV-LX50 ... best

Sony 708 damn good la...can get for RM450...