Out of interest MAW, would you say the PH10's come a good/close or a poor/distant third to either the Pioneer or the Fujitsu in this respect? I'm predominantly an SD watcher too, and although I've been very impressed by the Pioneer I'm finding it very difficult to ignore the price of the PH10s... The trouble is getting to see a PH10.
I had a 50" PH9 a few months back.
Had an external Sony VTX-800U freeview receiver connected via Scart & was pretty pleased with the SD picture but only ran it in for about 105 hours before it was returned.
The most pleasing results it seemed to give was with the 2 Australian soaps from BBC1 & CH5 in particular. There were also some other programmes/films which looked nice aswell and the footie looked cool aswell.
Although the commercial Panasonics are highly regarded & there is very little negative feedback or actually none, I was not pleased with the unit I had due to a static uneven darkish finish which seemed to be coming from the perspex glass in front of the plasma screen. This was both noticeable when the screen was 'off' & made itself apparent at times on certain colours & camera panning as a static darker banding.
Don't know if this is common to Panasonic commercials or whether I just had a unit which should not have had this or exhibited it to a greater degree than usual. Whatever is the case a plasma such as this should be free from such a poor finish, even the cheapo plasmas I've seen standing in Asda don't have this sort of finish.
I'll probably never know if it was a 'faulty' unit or not because it went back to the retailer where it was supposed to be examined, but then I was told that it had not been looked at & gone back to Panasonic. So none the wiser & have never heard anything back since.
