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Archive: 50'' and Larger HD TV Reviews (2008 - 2009)

With such a big LCD or plasma TV, your Home Cinema will be as close to the real thing as you can get right now, thanks to technologies like 3D TV and local dimming LEDs. Our other reviews cover smaller, more affordable TVs.

Pierre-Jean Alzieu
Updated: October 8, 2010

Our Tests

We use a new testing method very similar to the one we use for video projectors? The same video analysis software produces the HCFR colormeter. This gives us a good evaluation of brightness, depth of blacks, the colour space, RGB levels, colour temperature, saturation, and the gamma curve of TVs. In addition, we carry out practical tests (HD movie rendering, game console and TV use, etc.) which enable us to compliment the purely technical measurements and get a better idea of rescaling of standard definition sources (SD) and viewing angles.

This new test suite has been progressively adapted to our Product Face-Offs.

PLEASE NOTE: all our new TV reviews (32" and upwards) are now found on our HD TV Reviews page. This section of the site is an archive that only contains 32" and 37" TV reviews from 2009 and previous years.

Here we enter into the real Home Cinema experience. Beyond 50 inches, in a dark room, you'll really feel that you're at the movies.

This diagonal size, which used to be reserved for luxury class, is starting to become more common as new limits are being pushed with 60'' and even 70'' TVs.

> Archive: 50" and larger TVs - 2007 - 2008

> Archive: 50'' and larger TVs - late 2008, early 2009