Samsung PN50A760 Plasma HDTV Review - Conclusion

The Samsung PN50A760 is an impressive HDTV. Although it is plagued by many of the same issues you'll see on other plasma televisions, including low brightness, high power consumption and pixel latency issues the Samsung PN50A760 still offers an excellent feature set and overall impressive performance. We were very happy with the deep blacks, wide viewing angle, accurate greyscale gamma and rock solid color temperature. We do wish that color accuracy had been a bit better and more thought had gone into the media playback features, but overall the Samsung PN50A760 offers a lot of bang.

The question then becomes whether it's worth the bucks. At $2000 the PN50A760 will definitely put a dent in many people's wallets, but we have to admit that the price is fair, especially considering that there are other televisions retailing for much more that don't match this HDTV's performance. We should mentinon, however, that you can save a significant amount of money by moving to a slightly smaller size. The Vizio SV470XVT, Sony's Bravia KDL-46W4100 or even Samsung's own LN46A750 are all a few hundred dollars cheaper than the Samunsg PN50A760 and all performed well in our testing. If you really want all of those 50-inches, however, the Samsung PN50A760 is a very good performer at a reasonable price.