And yet, that's exactly what it feels to me.
To be perfectly honest it has really come down to the VT(W)60 being 1600€ vs. the W828 being 1120€ (plus the chance to win a PS4 if I buy it in sometime next week). I could live with higher power consumption, heat and even some IR (unless my panel were to have a severe case of it, which I've seen reported quite often). I'd be watching the 55" from about 2 meters away, so dithering shouldn't be a problem (?). The buzzing ... yeah, that could drive me insane, if it was really bad. Especially at night, when I'd have to keep the volume at reasonable levels. I absolute love the design of VT60, but if I add everything up ... yeah.
So frustrating.
Yeah, I know the feeling, and it's always hard earned money.
My VT60 was the most expensive thing I ever purchased and anything that expensive can go wrong, I mean, imagine it's dead on arrival, hell, I wanted the thing, badly, but after purchasing, and we're talking 2800 euros (65 inch model), of course it kinda hurt seeing them going off my account even if I though and think it was worth every penny. Fact is I'm not rich and I'm actually unemployed, but I really thought the living room needed something more, hence I bought a living room TV and not a new TV for my gaming room, no, it's not just for me.
And I think no one here could go back, I'm very happy. But I didn't need it, no one needs a huge ass top range TV, one can make do with something smaller and worse. Effectively you pay to be picky (shortly afterwards I went to the cinema... And hated it, that's right the TV I have at home surpasses cinema experience and blacks.
It never bothered me before, fact is I didn't need this. But I wanted it.
The W828B is not a bad TV, but don't look at either W900A or plasmas then, it's as simple as that. One can be happy just knowing you paid less, which is actually the case, so it's a decision like any other.
This said, I love it to bits
Dithering is not really visible up close and IR problems are usually the fault of users, you have a phenomena around here which is, you bought a class leading TV, it's an informed purchase, but you don't know the tech at all. Plasmas have a very obvious break in period, plasma is just too new and doesn't respond like it will later on, hence you have to be careful specially in the first 300 hours with what you feed it. Some people get some and pull a calibration off the internet just to see it in all it's glory, they also disable Pixel Orbiter before they even know what it is and bump brightness up till they're satisfied.
That's a recipe for disaster in a way it isn't for my panel that, at this point can withstand a lot. A new panel really can't or shouldn't. I really believe most issues are steaming from that, because I've seen plasmas at people's homes that didn't know they had plasmas (hence they didn't mess with settings at all, it was just there) and they were fine. All of them.
Of course you can be unlucky, but I think most are trying to make the panel showcase what it's got before it's ready.
