Just FYI, PIONEER is no longer in the tv business.. there is a thread for it..

Yes, go for it. This price should be the plain nett price, right? Without Mini HT System.
Pioneer Malaysia has no more stock (428 or 508). Make sure the shop has the stock not the use or display set.
If you didn't buy you would regret.
Trust me, chose Pioneer Kuro not other, whatever those has Full HD or even 100/200Hz, tak boleh lawan lah kawan.
Because Resolution is not the only & main issue, as long as output 1080p video signal.

Only one think,Pioneer stop production plasma tv 

cleaner to get the wdtv, cheap and simple.

RM9.5k!!! for 508XG? grab it...u won't regret....if you r sitting 10 feet a way from your screen....u can see the effect of the full HD anyway

hi hi...where did u get this offer? RM15k for the full HD 50in model? wanna check it out..

This might be the LX508. Not the KRP-500. Heard KRP-500 new set is selling ~ RM18k in KL

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Added on April 6, 2009, 11:43 am

Also PM me when u get it. Ask mpwy on how the calibrated set looks like.... The salesman lied on the blacks being better due to more pixels. The AR coating is slightly different between the Full HD and the HD Ready. Thats what makes the blacks blacker. The KRP-500 has even deeper blacks.

I believe I did not only quote that Pioneer has only the best blacks. It also has a lot of the other things that I quoted (gamma, grayscale, colour encoder, colour accuracy). And you are spot on, the general population does not give a damn about how great the picture quality looks. I was merely responding to what was an inaccurate statement that "nowadays Panny is as good as a Pioneer".

Let me give you an example, if you go back in the history of the plasma, the current gen plasma for Panny is 12th Gen. Panny was the leader in black level and overall plasma picture reporoduction until the 9th Gen. During the fierce competition of between Fujitsu,Hitachi, Pioneer and Panny (Sony dropped out just before this year) to improve on picture quality, Pioneers released the 7th and 8th Gen plasmas. After that they leapt ahead. Panasonic made a strong comeback in the 11th gen but was not close enough. Fujitsu actually made consumer plasmas that were superior to Pioneer in all aspects except black levels, but the chose to exit 2 years ago and now Pioneer. My worry is that with Fujitsu and Pioneer exiting while Hitachi focusing more on LCDs, plasma technology growth might stop. Again, if you are interested in future PDP growth you will find that the plasma have 2 more stuff up their sleeves. Namely 5 lumen and 10 lumen technology. What does this do? It enables brighter pictures and lower power consumption both of which is is LCDs strengths. You are already witnessing some sort of semi 5 lumen tech (Neo PDP) that is released in this years Panasonic. If you check last years CES you will find that Pioneer demo-ed a Extreme Contrast PDP that was supposed to be done using their patents for producing 5-10lumens tech. The development on Plasmas and LCDs are an interesting area of science that a lot of people take for granted.

You are confusing a good product to a succesful product. Panny is the best company to bring costs down, just see how their pricing strategy on their plasmas are. It is a known fact that the guys that sell more survive. That was the downfall of Pioneer and Fujitsu in the display technology.

Again, I believe that Samsung will continue to drive innovation even in the Plasma division. I hope that your prediction of plasma becoming extinct does not happen. For the sake of the end user you would like to see continued innovation in display technologies.

I mean no harm, it is obvious that some here do not like to know the correct information. My post was meant to try to explain to people that if you compare data, the statement was inaccurate. I will refrain myself from posting information as these in the future.

I would like to state also that I am not a Pioneer fanboy or a plasma fanboy. I only want to be able to view the best the technology has to offer. If LCDs improve and we all win, I don't care what the public think as long as they are happy.