Panasonic ZT65 vs Kuro Showdown Reveals TV With Deepest Blacks

A bank holiday Sunday – especially one as sunny as the one just passed – is typically not a day to find more than a hundred people loitering in a dimly lit banquet room.

But that’s exactly what happened at The City Rooms hotel in Leicester this past weekend. The reason is simple: the venue held host to several of the top flat-screen TVs released in 2013 by various manufacturers, all lined up side by side in their calibrated glory. The event – themed “Battle Of The Big Brand TVs” – was painstakingly put together by local THX calibrator Julian Scott and the Leicester store of Richer Sounds, with promotional and on-site support from the retailer’s national marketing department in conjunction with HDTVTest. Panasonic’s “Beyond The Reference” ZT plasma and its step-down VT series sibling, as well as Samsung’s much improved F8500 PDP (plasma display panel) offering, were among the HDTVs exhibited.

The TVs that were displayed from the outset were – in order from left to right – the Philips 46PFL8007T, the Samsung UE55F8000, and the Panasonic TX-L55WT65B LED LCD televisions; the Panasonic TX-P55VT65B, the Panasonic TX-P60ZT65B, the Samsung PS51F8500, and the Pioneer PDP-LX6090 plasmas; and perpendicular to the others, the LG 84LM960V 84-inch Ultra HD 4K TV.

In contrast, the three LED LCDs on the left were ignored for the most part. This sort of setting – with only a small amount of ambient light present, which ironically is what videophiles like for critical viewing – really exposed the shallower blacks and narrower viewing angles of LCD display technology, particularly when compared against plasma TVs that are superior in these two aspects. Stores with bright lights is where LCDs thrive… not in this environment.

And when the Blu-ray player started spinning darker sequences from The Dark Knight Rises and Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End (served via an HDMI amplifier to all the TVs), even the LG 84in 4K television – which uses edge LED backlighting – faltered. Almost every attendee could be found congregating in front of the four plasma televisions, mesmerised by the exceedingly deep blacks and realistic shadow detailing. (Excerpt from HDTV Test)


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