Agree on some points
but below are my inputs
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Originally Posted by shajufx  PV80 has a glossy frame (which according to me is distraction for my eyes as room light reflects back to you from the edges), it looks great but practically its a pain. |
i don't see any distraction - maybe in the showroom lights you felt that way - but to be very frank there is no reflection of light
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Originally Posted by shajufx PV80 has an auto contrast setting which according to the sales guy is not a great feature. Because you can set your own contrast on a PV8 according to your usual room lighting or surrounding, everyday you are not shifting houses or states ! |
I find this feature very useful as the plasma is in my bedroom and my light conditions keep changing from daylight to evening well lit to night sleeptime when lights off and tv goes off with sleep timer. However if the plasma is in a well lit hall and you don't watch movies with lights off then auto-contrast is of no use.
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Originally Posted by shajufx PV80 has an extra HDMI port. Now tell me how many HDMI cables you want to connect or infact how many gadgets you have in the house that need to be connected to the TV ? |
this feature is useful if your home theatre does not have an hdmi switch. Mine does not and so I connect my two hdmi sources directly to the back. The front hdmi is very useful to connect your temporary hdmi sources like laptop or hd camera, there is no denying this!! I don't want to be going to the back of my plasma or home theatre every time I want to connect my hd camera or laptop, and leaving the cable hanging there is unsightly.
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Originally Posted by shajufx PV80 has a swivel stand. Now both PV80 and PV8 having the feature of 'wide viewing angle', how often you are going to swing the screen on a stand ? If you are wall mounting, then its a 100% useless feature. |
completely agreed here - in my case i dont trust wal mounts, so i use the swivel stand, but i have never actually swivelled it
either ways pv8 or pv80, all the other doohickeys aside, this is a good decision picture quality wise !!