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Samsung F8500 ReviewBy Lee Neikirk
April 12, 2013
That may sound like effusive praise, but it's the truth. Within the realm of picture quality, Samsung's F8500 is absolutely awesome. The brightness this plasma achieves is worth praise alone, but its deep black levels and the accuracy of its colors are solid gold stamps, branding it as the current TV to beat.
We've been very impressed with plasma tech this year: Panasonic's S60 and VT60 series hit unspeakable black levels, and each 2013 plasma has come within just a few decimal points of perfectly matching the international standard for HDTV color. The F8500's contrast ratio (over 10,000:1) is unlike almost any TV we've reviewed before, and may just surpass the legendary Kuro in its staggering black/white differentiation.
http://www.televisioninfo.com/content/samsung-f8500-review-2 64 inch:
Samsung PS64F8500 Plasma TV ReviewBy David Mackenzie
1 May 2013
On the whole, we were very happy indeed with the PS-64F8500′s performance. It produces outstanding picture quality with extreme contrast performance (deep blacks and very bright whites) commonly only seen on prototype OLED TVs, which will have astronomical price tags when they finally become available at this screen size (hell, given the constantly missed shipping dates for OLED panels, maybe we should be saying “IF they become available at this screen size”). Its greyscale, gamma and colour accuracy are all first-rate, and its handling of SD content is the industry’s best – and it’s here now.
It isn’t entirely free of quirks, however, and while those mean we can’t technically label the PS64F8500 a “reference level” product, please do keep in mind that it’s only a hair’s breadth away. We have a hard time imagining the few small issues we found being deal-breakers for too many people, especially when you consider the image quality and value for money on offer. The improvements which Samsung have been making to their plasmas in recent years are astonishing, and that’s before you consider the rate the improvements have been coming at. In fact, by promoting largely the bright whites, but being quieter about the incredibly deep blacks, Samsung have underpromised and overdelivered with this display.
http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/samsung-ps64f8500-201305012945.htm 60 inch:
Samsung PNF8500 review: Power-packed plasma shines brighterReview Date: 5/01/13
By David Katzmaier
The F8500 deserves a spot in the upper echelon of TVs you can buy, and in a bright room it's the best plasma I've ever seen. In moderate rooms, it doesn't quite match up to the picture quality of the like-priced Panasonic TC-PVT60 series, and while I'd say it's a superior performer to the ST60 by a nose, they both earn the same 9 rating in this section.
This plasma manages to combine exceedingly deep black levels with the potential for whites brighter than any other high-performance plasma available. Color accuracy is superb, if not quite reference level, and of course it exhibits the perfect off-angle and picture uniformity characteristics of the breed. Its video processing unfortunately requires you to make a choice between correct 1080p/24 film cadence and the deepest black levels, however, something you won't have to do with other TVs. One tertiary weakness is sound quality, while its 3D picture quality, aided again by superior light output, was outstanding.
http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/samsung-pn60f8500/4505-6482_7-35566923.html
