poita said:

That would be great as a client monitor, but I am in Australia, so it probably won't work :(

Yet, it will be graded in resolve after repairing the damage on the defect matte.

Plasmas are problematic to use for grading, the ABL screws everything up. The floating white point on plasmas is difficult to deal with, but they do work well on 80% of scenes, and make a great client 'wow!' monitor, and a preview monitor for motion.

For anyone contemplating setting up a grading suite, something like this for example, http://youtu.be/QMcjRZbujYg , with white backgrounds would be impossible to grade on a plasma.

There are definitely some scenes in SW that could cause problems, but it would be fine for the majority of the movie.

I have read they are problematic due to ABL (Steve Shaw on LGG is the priest of this opinion), however if one is mindful of the displays limits, and it's calibrated for use in a dim room (so that the power draw for 100% white doesn't trigger aggressive ABL), then I imagine it shouldn't be too much of a problem to one who knows what they're doing.

Couple a good LCD with a good plasma and you'd have all the bases covered I'd say ; D.

I actually just bought a Kuro monitor for use in grading my Star Trek TMP project as I'd been spoiled by using a Trinitron for so long and its superior motion resolution and on-off contrast, though I do have favor for LCDs given their stability and potential gamut flexibility assuming a wide gamut backlight.