Someone should alter the brightness relative to real viewing..no way is LCD that grey.
That is impossible to show in a photograph on a screen. (unless that screen is a Pio 9G or something with even better black levels, in a completely controlled environment) The photos are only good at showing relative differences in black level, not absolute.
It seems that with medium to high-contrast images, there is only a marginal improvement with the 9G Plasmas, but low-contrast images start showing the 5x improvement.
For example; in this image there is quite a big difference between the 8G and 9G:
But with images that have more bright objects on-screen, the difference becomes a lot smaller:
That's not necessarily a bad thing though with more bright objects on-screen, your eye automatically perceives black levels to be lower than they actually are (this is why dynamic contrast processing exists) so chances are that it won't be apparent in actual viewing.
What looks stunning to you? Competitors products are clearly rigged and 9G is still a far cry from extreme contrast concept.
http://i27.tinypic.com/34yoflv.png
Don't do this. It has absolutely no meaning whatsoever.
And I don't see why you always claim that these are rigged, Pioneer just leaves the other screens at the factory defaults, I believe.