PDP5020 vs TCP50V10

[Daylightdon]

Chris, If you had a chioce between them for nearly the same money, which would you choose? The Pioneer comes with ISF setup.
The V10 would be $300.00 more for ISF.

[MrBoylan]

Chris, If you had a chioce between them for nearly the same money, which would you choose? The Pioneer comes with ISF setup.
The V10 would be $300.00 more for ISF.

Well it's hard to go wrong with a choice like that! I'd probably get the V10 for a couple of reasons: Support (Pioneer is out of the TV business) and VIERA Cast (the Pioneer has no IPTV features). But then again, you do have VIERA Cast on your BD80 player, so that may not be as important. Picture-quality wise, the they're going to be extremely close and with the THX mode on the V10, you can get pretty close to an ISF-calibrated picture by just pressing a button.

Also, though this is not a statistical sample, my friend who bought an Elite Kuro plasma last year had it fail in less than 9 months (under warranty fortunately), and our review sample of the PDP-5010 lasted all of 10 minutes before its power supply failed. The 5020 that we had did behave nicely during our review but I think we had it for less than a month. Really the only thing I didn't like about the 5020 was that it had really limited picture controls available in the user menu (not even a color temperature setting). An ISF guy can probably tweak it in the service menus, but if you want to experiment yourself, there's very limited selection of what can be modified.

Good luck with your decision and don't forget to use one of our links if you can. I think the 50-inch V10 is at $1939 (delivered) on OneCall right now (incuding a $20 JULY4 coupon that expires tomorrow):

Panasonic TC-P50V10 Plasma TV - OneCall.com

I can't find the PDP-5020 from any decent online dealers right now. Sounds like you might be working with a local installer/specialty retailer on these and there's nothing wrong with that!

Good luck!

-Chris

[Daylightdon]

Hi Chris, thanks for your help.
The V10 won

[MrBoylan]

Hi Chris, thanks for your help.
The V10 won

Cool. When is it being delivered?

-CB