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i untie federal brief from CNET and this is a review of the Samsung 6500 plasma a lot of the attention directed towards Samsung is that the company's LCD televisions and I think that's a shame this year the company is again taking it to Panasonic with the quality of its plasma televisions and the new a 6500 is able to go head-to-head with my favorite bang for buck TV the Panasonic ST 50 design-wise the Samsung 6500 features a brushed metallic look but in this way it's identical to the top of the range ae 8000 except for a different colored stand but it's not just appearance the two are very similar in other ways based on our tests the to perform very similarly as far as color and contrast is concerned and both have excellent bright room performance the only real difference is the feature set the 8000 has smart interaction and is a little better at processing standard definition sources but in my mind that hardly justifies a $900 difference in retail price the reasons to buy the 6500 include excellent color reproduction deep deep black levels and a usable Apps suite while you may be tempted by the flashy AES 8000 LED I'd say save yourself a mint and get all the features you need and a much better picture as well the e 6500 is an excellent TV and it's able to match the panasonic st 50 in almost every way and at about 1200 bucks online for the 50-inch as one of the best value televisions on the market this has been ty Pendlebury for cnet.com