Absolutely loving my recent purchases. Well worth all that saving up
I bought the Panasonic TH-37PX80 Plasma and a PS3 + MGS4 + HDMI (ebay £3.78) + PS2/Wii in one component cable (ebay £10) + Play TV + 320 Gig hard drive
Total ~ £1000 (
actually froze my account because they got suspicious)
Everything looks amazing on my plasma. MGS4, Excellent sound and detail, cant wait to play more of this game. I think I get the poor sound reviews for this tv but because it is so much better than the sound on my old tv I am happy
The PS3 is such a good multimedia player. DVD's look excellent on it when played through the PS3. Which means any standard def stuff you play looks great. Rather than watching downloaded TV eps on my laptop I transfer them on to my 8GB SD card then plug it into the ps3 using the usb sdcard reader. You can play it off the sd card or transfer it to your hard drive for permanent storage. Its so flipping awesome its going to be great filling my hard drive. Its the pirates paradise (my stance is that if I have bought it already I am not buying it again on blu ray, strawberry float em!... maybe when prices come down (e.g wall e in blu ray costs £16.99 so I will probably buy that as I dont have it on DVD, but I am not re buying transformers))
This is so much better than any other method I have tried to get movies from my laptop playing on the tv( s-video is fiddly, no hdmi on laptop etc).
The plasma is so great at SDTV I had high expectations for SD consoles and my expectations where all met.
PSone games surprisingly look excellent via ps3 too.
Wii looked great via RGB, it wasn't as fuzzy as I was expecting. This plasma does such a great job. But when I plugged in my cheapo component cable in it looked even better!
PS2 the same however when I tried the component cable it looked so much sharper than I was ever expecting (I have seen some awful RGB and component pictures on HDTV's with PS2 connected to them), again this is down to this excellent plasma tv. Granted non of these pictures are perfect compared to them connected to standard SDTV's, Wii is close, PS2 is hit and miss dependant on which game (e.g ico looks more fuzzy than SOTC).
Bottom line SDTV stuff played through PS3 = as great as possible much better job than a standard def tv would do. PS2 with component excellent but I imagine it would be better if played through those ps3's with emotion engines in them and thus unscaled. Wii excellent.
Great Tv