By:
David Katzmaier
Samsung has its fingers in all kinds of TV technology pies, and although it's better known as a purveyor of DLP- and LCD-based HDTVs, the company still sells a tremendous number of plasmas.
The Samsung HP-S5053 looks exactly like the 42-inch HP-S4253, just bigger, and in person, it has a sleek, high-tech appeal that ranks up with the snazziest panels out there.
Like most other 50-inch plasmas available today, the Samsung HP-S5043 has a native resolution of 1,366x768 pixels.
All told, we liked many aspects of the Samsung HP-S5053's image quality, including its excellent black levels and accurate color decoding, but its tendency to introduce too much noise and false contouring into many scenes was difficult to overlook.
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