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Originally Posted by Monarch08

There's a review of the PS8000 here - LG 50PS8000 THX Certified 50inch Plasma Review at AVForums.com as I say, you should be able to take the comments about the picture of the calibrated picture as completely relevant to the PS6000.

Actually I think the 'out of the box' comments from that review are more relevent and the 'calibrated' comments do not apply to the 3000/6000 and here is why:

I've been looking at getting an LG plasma myself, and was thinking of going for the 50ps3000 myself, as I prefer cheap over style However, I do want to be able to set it up properly to show the best picture and was a bit concerned that the 3000 didn't have all the calibration controls of the 8000, especially after I managed to download both the manuals earlier today and noticed a fair view omissions from the 3000/6000 manual.

So on my way home I popped into Currys and got the lad on the tv section to show me the picture menus and can confirm that the 'expert' modes is the 3000 do not have the isf logo, nor do they have the same range controls to adjust the picture. Where the 8000 can do 20 point greyscale calibration, the 3000 can do 2 points maximum, and maybe not even that

Therefore, you should be looking at the 7000 model as a minimum.