solarisation effects around certain objects when you're watching highly compressed video - these days, all video is compressed to some extent. Then there's the issue of plasma noise - look closely at a plasma, and you'll see fast-moving speckles on a plasma, that look like the snow you get from a de-tuned analogue TV, but they are nowhere near as severe. This is a side-effect of the technology, and is unavoidable. But compare that to LED backlit LCD TVs and there's more to love than hate. There are no bright edges, or terrible halos around bright objects on a dark background. All-in-all, the picture you get from a plasma is far closer in "feel" to a CRT of old, and that's a good thing, because CRT TVs were a mature technology that looked stunning right up until we all decided having massive, flat TVs was the thing we cared most about. So, where does that leave this Panasonic plasma? Well, it's just about the best TV we've seen since the Kuro. And in some regards, it's much better than Pioneer's TV that remains the reference for picture quality even today, years after the last one rolled off the production line. Its black levels remain legendary, but there are some things about that TV that were never perfect, pure white, for example is more grey than white, and in bright scenes, there's a slight cloudiness to the image. Plus, the Kuro isn't a hugely bright set, which is an issue for