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hi i'm ty pendlebury and this is a review of the LG p.m. 9700 plasma TV it's undeniable that LG's range of LCDs is the best-looking set of TVs available this year but unfortunately this plasma isn't all that special to look at it does have a weird-looking finger stand but the bezel looks very similar to Samsung's plasmas that are available this year as well though the LG p.m. 9700 is the company's flagship plasma it's not as expensive as its rivals best models at about 1700 for the 50 inch model the TV has a number of features including the magic motion remote active 3d playback for HDMI ports and built-in widi or wireless display for streaming your laptop to your TV color is reasonably good and images have some depth even if there is a smidge of detail softness to things hurt this TV though especially against the similarly priced superstar the Panasonic st50 the first is black levels you can get LCD TVs at the same price which have better performance than this plasma the second is the dreaded soap opera effect the TV comes with a smoothing feature called trumotion that won't turn off even in THX mode you can switch it to gaming mode but then you lose some of the fine picture controls the other modes give you and therefore less color accuracy it's been a while since LG has produced a must-buy television and unfortunately the PM 9700 just isn't it maybe the company's OLED the 55 inch am 9600 which is due in late 2012 we'll fix this problem this has been ty pendlebury from cnet com