[Titleist]

Hmm, good questions. First off:

Iggy, yeah my camera has this wacky lense, I get that effect my letting it sit out in the sun all day, so it's all wavy now, lol.

As for the center being a skosh too big, it's weird because the fronts and mains are all part of their 25 series, meaning RC 25 and RB25s. Oh well, i've gotten used to it.

As for after calibration, yeah it's about .5-1.0db lower than the mains. I calibrated it by using the sound meter, then compared it to what the Denon's auto calibration generated, and both were within .5 +/- of eachother.

Rogue, I love the pioneer plasma. The only thing I have to be mindful is of leaving static images on screen, some people think it's bullshit that burn in is even a factor. But I'm used to the fact that if i'm watching a sporting even and there's a score widget or whatever in the corner, that before I go to bed, to switch it to a 16:9 show to kinda degauss the screen. So it's second nature. Same way with video games, I had GTA: Vice City up for about 2 hours last weekend, there was a little bit of an after image, after about 30 minutes of watching something on HDnet it was gone. And you could only see it in the first place if you knew exactly what to look for.

But it's a wonderful tv, absolutely vivid and dead on in it's color accuracy. As for it's black levels, it's pretty good, I wouldn't call these reference level blacks, and most often they're what I would consider extremely dark gray/black. So if black level is a deal breaker, that could be a problem, but for my size setup it's a gorgeous display.