Hi,

Any advice on the best panasonic panel (50-55") nowadays? I'm using a D7 panel and would prefer to swap it for a TrueHD (1024 lines) panel, but haven't kept up with the Panasonic professional panel range recently.

I'm keen to stay with Panasonic because of the Serial port control - I really don't want to mess around with switching the panel on and off etc.

The best panel at the moment will be TH50PF11 or TH58PF12 .. PF12 is based on the NeoPDP technology where as the PF11 is not. There is no TH50PF12 yet, however it was supposed to come out late 09 or early 10, but no news yet.

A question would be how will the NeoPDP technology work with the Beosystem 3.

Thanks - as I'm not in a rush, waiting for the NeoPDP may be a good idea - although 3D TVs will be out later this year (with Sky launching their 3D service in March/April). Now THAT is something  I wonder how the Beosystem3 would handle that.

Sky's service seems to be sending two images side-by-side, so if the Beosystem3 processes the image, it may all go wrong.

The 20U will be the next series after the 12U of each model.

TH(42)(50)PF20Us will be out first around April because the 42 and 50 PF models will jump from 11UK --> 20U skipping a 12U model. The others will follow throughout the year roughly on the anniversery of their counterpart 
12U introductions.

I found this at the  AVS Forum. 

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1154924&page=5

Best Pana panel at the moment is meant to be the TH-VX100. It has recieved loads of awards and is meant to be the best Plasma on the market. I have seen one running on a BS3 and it is astounding!!

Are there any or many Beo worlders buying separate beosystem 3 with a non BO panel, i am thinking about it and is this cost effective?

many thanks
Vince

There is no difference apart from the surround when using a Panasonic PHP panel to the equivalent (badged) Beovision 4 panel (although there has been a LOT of discussion about whether the panels are meeting a quality threshold set by B&O) - but the pricing is significantly cheaper.

I have no experience of other makes of panels apart from Panasonic panels on either the Beosystem 2 or Beosystem 3.