How about Best Denki?

That one is around RM3.7K after discount.

Thanks for the tips, guess I'll do that when I'm in KL.
I have heard the latest LG LCDs with Mark Levinson tuned sound, no doubt, it sounded better than normal LCDs that I've seen but surprisingly, without the Mark Levinson price tag.

Well, I strongly agree with htkaki on this. If you have many family members, what you can do is to buy a bigger LCD tv. So far, I have not encountered any problems using a LCD for my HD needs.

Some pc text will appear softer even on a Full HD panel, it depends how well it accepts pc signals. Some HD Ready models can display pc signals very well and at the current price point, it represents a better buy than PC LCD monitors which are mostly TN panels with 6-bits of colour instead of 8-bits of colour that most LCD tvs have.

My friend bought the latest Acer notebook with a blu-ray drive for RM4.2K, no doubt, it plays blu-ray movies pretty well but the screen that comes with the notebook is not bright enough and the contrast is a little lacking, blacks look like grays and worst of all, very poor viewing angles too. At RM4.2K, I guess Acer is the cheapest notebook with a blu-ray drive but the silly thing, the battery couldn't last even an 1 hour plus if you put everything at full blast (brightnesss and volume). Unless if you can find a blu-ray title less than an hour, it will be useless to get this notebook.

What you say is true but it also depends on your sitting position and the size of your screen. If you have a 40 inch Full HD panel and if you're sitting more than 8 metres apart, you won't be able to differentiate between Full HD and HD Ready panel.

However, the Panny didn't get very favourable reviews from Singapore CNET.

Which Sony model are you talking about here? W, V or S series?

To be frank, the Panny's PQ is not as impressive as the S series but honestly, I believe Samsung's 4 series is worth considering too or the 5 series for a Full HD version.

That's a yes.

Count me in too. I'm a Sony Bravia fan boy too.
Colours are normally not natural when we're using the factory presets, we need to tweak the constrast, brightness, backlight, etc by ourself to get the right balance. Like my Bravia W series, the backlight was at 9 using factory presets but I've lowered it to 5, the picture is more natural, not too bright and the blacks are spot on.

But sometimes for movies, it might produce some motion artifacts. Of course, I can't confirm for Panny but it seems that Samsung models have this problem.

I'm also doing the same too. My LCD sounded very thin and bass-less so I used a pair of external speakers for it.

The response time is 6ms? Izzit?

If you compare the X series with W series, the W series have a better contrast and plasma like blacks. You can do a side by side comparison and anyway, What Hi-Fi UK gave pretty good reviews for the X series.

The correct word to say will be the gap between LCD and Plasma is not that wide unlike last time.

And you can use the PS3 as a media player too. Quite a good investment I must say.

Getting a PS3 is a healthy investment and will encourage you to spend more time at home, your HM sure will agree one.