To me, the above Sony looks even better than Pioneer!

I have more or less, narrowed it down to the samsung LA46A950 ..... thanks for everyone's opinion.

Just bought the sony bdp 350 from spore, S$600. Also have bought planet earth, wild china, baraka, pearl harbour & kungfu panda fr amazon

the key point as you mention, is that "yes you can more or less easily tell the difference." hence being "Objective" about it..

things like Mpeg Macroblocking, color false conturing due to low 6bit panels vs 8bit panels, standard dev 480i DVD video vs 1080p Bluray can easily be pointed out to a casual viewer to show them the differences between these artifacts, infact you can capture them on camera to show at this point of the movie, that TV "A" and TV "B" got such difference, hence Objectivity.
that's the key point here which I was trying to say.. whether you like 200hz motionflow or turn it off is another story..  unless you tell me video artifacts like macroblocking is what you think is a good video, then I can't argue with you.

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Added on February 20, 2009, 11:06 am

thank gosh at least got some people agrees.. doesn't take a Videophile Guru or anything to see the difference between Red color and pink color, black and grey right? like comparing the black bezel of a LCD TV with the LCD screen when displaying so called black signal (usually at the 2.35:1 widescreen black bars) but is actually greyish black cos it's not the same black gradient as it's surrouding plastic bezel..

Morning you guyz. I'm planning to get Samsung 46" Lcd LA46A950 anytime soon. And currently i'm having difficulties to get good complete surround system. Heard that Sony is good but the lens is super sensitive (Which I hate it). Alternative, is Samsung for me. Any other recommendation from all you fine people?

Thankz in advance

Ha, trying to find someone to join the gang 

actually after thinking really hard abt it, I'd rather go for a Panasonic. Why should I pay RM17,000 when I can pay a mere RM5500 for a 50 inch also.

The quality also more or less the same. I see also, side by side, the black also more or less the same. I ask so many TV enthusiast, and they all say the black is the same.

Its like comparing a bai batang and a negro batang. Both also more or less same.