HX 750 vs HX 850 vs ET5 vs ST50 vs ES6200

I confess that I did not find much difference between ST50 and HX850.

The HX850 had better design (monolyth design, etc.) and was definitely better looking (phisically) but was way too expensive. As said on another thread ST50 with free HT (which I exchanged for a BDP) was working out to be 23k cheaper for 4" extra diagonal width. This was something very hard to overlook. And finally the following convinced me:

Picture quality (How we test TVs)
We're more than a third through 2012 at the time of this review, and I've had my share of terrible and excellent TVs so far. This Sony skews toward "excellent."

While it can't match the best plasmas I've seen this year, like the Panasonic ST50 and the Samsung PNE8000, it accounts for itself very tidily in the picture quality stakes. It features 95 percent of the HX929's picture at about 80 percent of the cost, give or take a shekel. Black levels were very good, and while color may not be the Sony's strongest suit, it does share its family's rich and vibrant color palette. If you watch a lot of Web content, the X-Reality Pro engine will clean up a majority of blockiness.
Source: Sony KDL-46HX850 Review - Watch CNET's Video Review - page 2

Picture quality on the HX850 is exceptionally good for an LED TV, one that while failing to match that of the significantly cheaper plasma TVs such as the remarkable Panasonic ST50, it still has the essential attributes necessary to make it among the top HDTVs for 2012, irrespective of display technology.
Source: Best LED TV for 2012: Sony HX850 vs. Samsung ES8000

Black level: The GT50's shade of black matched that of the ST50 nearly perfectly, with a deep, inky quality visibly superior to the Sony in letterbox bars and dark areas, for example the shadows and black clothing of Madam Heron (1:01:15) or the black screen areas during the shots of gears and levers (1:03:58) in Chapter 7 of "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows." The differences between the GT50 and the Samsungs were likewise vanishingly small and due to slight variations in calibration rather than any real performance differences. As I expected, the VT50 looked visibly darker than the others in these scenes.
Source: Panasonic TC-P55GT50 review
 
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