I too was put off by the reflections and general greyness of the image. I still don't get Plasma delivering darker blacks as everytime i watch one next to say a 10 and compare black images, the Plasma always looks like a very old pair of  very washed black jeans!

Its a shame that these beautiful sets are not upgradable with the new Plasma plus panels, as the reflections and greyness seem completely removed(recycling)

I totally agree with Chris!  I don't get plasma - it's super old technology. For me, it's LCD and soon OLED!!!  For now, the BV10 has a heck of a lot going for it!!!  (BUT ask me next year when the Apple TV is launched and then it may be a totally different story!)

Yes Paul, a 40 inch retina display🤔

Paul Winn wrote:

I totally agree with Chris!  I don't get plasma - it's super old technology. For me, it's LCD and soon OLED!!!  For now, the BV10 has a heck of a lot going for it!!!  (BUT ask me next year when the Apple TV is launched and then it may be a totally different story!)

old technology??

But it gives the best picture!

I recently just got rid of one of the latest panasonic tvs only for a bigger size or alternatively the new bv-11 but it was the one with the new with the neo pdp technology and the black levels and picture on that tv is amazing, setting up plasmas in store compared to a home enviroment will always be different.

whenever people go to stores and see plasmas along side led tvs the first impression is that the plasma looks dim and dull. With led tvs they are set with over saturated colours working with the shop lighting attracting buyers, buy one and get it home and you will see how bad the picture looks as it will be set to dynamic buy default.

Obviously you will play around with the settings to find one suitable for easy relaxed watching but then you have to factor some of the negatives with that tech. You got clouding, flashlighting off axis viewing where the picture washes out and degrades if your viewing the tv from different positions. Positives are brightness colour and sharpness, plasmas tend to look a little softer in that regard.

With plasma you get angle free viewing superior black levels and very good motion handling, IR is not even really a problem these days as the anti burn in features these tvs implement are alot better than before so plasma still has it's place.

I think some of the negatives of plasma are higher energy consumption and lack of brightness compared to led and lcd tvs. But at the end of the day both have pros and cons.