We found very few flaws when testing this unit.  The only major complaint that can be aimed at it would be that its backlights tend to make solid blacks (like letterbox bars) look a little gray.  However, when watching a film, the blacks within the image don't suffer as much.  They aren't as pure black as you would see from an LED TV or Plasma but they are still quite impressive.  The other issue we found is really more a nitpick than anything else.  In our Spears and Munsil tests on Blu-ray, we found that with 200Hz turned on, it had a little trouble de-interlacing. However, since we found no de-interlacing problems when testing actual film content, this result doesn't seem to have an impact on image quality from what we can tell.

We tested 1080p content by viewing "Speed Racer" and "The Dark Knight" on Blu-Ray.  We also tested with 1080p games on the PS3 and Xbox 360 over HDMI.  The result was impressive.  Colours were reproduced well and, as mentioned earlier, blacks were great.  There were no contrast problems to speak of and the image looked crisp and clear.  We didn't experience any colour shift when viewing the screen off-centre although the backlight does tend to make blacks look greyer the more off-centre you are viewing.  It is also able to display 1080p Blu-ray at 24 frames per second.

The 200Hz setting handles motion well when viewing sport or television programs but for movies we preferred to turn it off or set it to its lowest setting.  While it did a good job of removing motion blur and eliminating judder, it also made films look too artificial for our taste.  This may be different for you though, and tends to be a personal preference for most viewers.

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