Thank you David.
It would be interesting to know the maximum brightness of the panels, at least when all the energy saving options are OFF. Do you think it could be possible for AVforums to add also that information to the plasma display reviews?
I have an interesting (maybe) "tip" for you
: I'm sure you know there is a "problem" on many TVs regarding the color standard SD or HD, when you are using a DVD/BD player and you are playing a standard DVD at 720p/1080i (using the upscaling). The right color standard, in that case, should be Rec.601 (SD), but from what I know, most of the players are using Rec.709 (HD), which is wrong, and without doing any color conversion.
Now, speaking about the TVs, most of them don't have an option which allow the user to set the right color standard for the HDMI inputs, and so, if you don't have the "right" DVD/BD upscaling player, in the above case the colors displayed are wrong. The LG plasma (PG, PQ and PS series at least) have that option (!), but on my 32PG6000, when I made some test by using my old (but still good) Oppo 971H player, I have discovered that if I set the player at 576p, the "color standard" option of the LG is available, and i can change it from SD to HD to see the differences, but when I set the player to 720p/1080i that option on my 32PG6000 is disabled
and so I usually use the player at 576p, because otherwise the "color standard" option on the PG is HD, and i have wrong colors. Not really a problem in my case, because the processor of the 32PG6000 (Genesis FLI10610H) is doing a great work, and also because the 32PG6000 is only an HD Ready and so, using the player at 576p, there is only 1 video-processing of the input signal. But things are different if the TV is full-HD, like this PS and his bigger brother. In this case, if you have a good player, it is better to check what setup is doing the best work.
Now the question is: do you know if the "color standard" option of the 50PS7000 is enabled or disabled when you are playing a normal DVD at 720p/1080i? If it is disabled (and "HD"), like it happens on my 32PG6000, do you think it could be a good idea to have that option always available and, in case, write to LG about that thing?
Thank you again for you time, and sorry for the long post and for my not-perfect english