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Pioneer first image then Panasonic second image for each image pair.

Collected a free low hours Pioneer LX5090 as a backup TV.

Already own a Panasonic GT50 as my main TV, plus a G20, and previously had an FZ1000 OLED.

I decided to grab a backup plasma while they're still cheap/free. Found a very well cared-for Pioneer LX5090.

Before putting it into storage, I ran it back-to-back with the GT50. Well... Pioneer really were ahead of the game. The picture is insane, even against the four-years-newer GT50, which I love.

So plan changed: the G20 went into storage, the LX5090 became my main TV, and the GT50 got relegated to G20 duty.

The phone JPEG introduce a lot of jpeg noise and makes the Pioneer's blacks look crushed, but they aren't. All the shadow detail is there, the blacks just go that deep that the camera/compression struggles to show it.

I'm still gobsmacked how even in 4 years and within that time acquiring the Pioneer R&D Panasonic still struggled to bake it into their lineup until perhaps the last gen ZT65?

Room and Setup notes:

Same room, same light source, picture taken, I also swapped the positions of both TV's around, which meant both for a completely fair test so both got the same chance to show themselves in the exact same positions of each, running on both sources, both HDMI cables all swapped between both between images so each panel got the same run on both sets of equipment.

Both were adjusted in settings to get the images as near to each other as possible in terms of gamma, contrast and brightness, the only thing I didn't change were the colour management settings. Both presets were from default baseline ISF/User.

What do you think?

As a nature lover I wanted to replicate something from the wild. For some reason I gravitated towards an Amazon style eco-system.

So the idea was born and after about 6 months of intermittent research on ecosystems from that area I finally formulated what I wanted in my head in terms of style, plants, stocking etc.

Blackwater amazon style biotope

All native planting

Surface:

• Tropical Frogbit
• Waterlettuce

Main:

• Myriophyllum matogrossense - still coming up at the back
• Hydrocotyle leucocephala - still growing from shoots, hard to see any in pic
• Amazon swords

The plants are all placed specifically to provide a decent central mass focal point, coming up from under and around the main diftwood.

They will continue to grow and provide a much larger backdrop in time.

• Tank is large cubed 155L - pic doesn't really convey how deep it is front to back
• Walstad inspired but am over filtering too with OASE 350
• Pond soil base, sand cap.
• PH 6.5
• Cycle time from zero - 5.5 weeks
  • parameters wise it was becoming ready at about 3.5 weeks but I didn't want to rush it.

School of 15 rosy tetra went in yesterday.

Rosy tetra were out and surveying within hours and setting up hierarchies and zones by day 2. They seem incredibly happy.

I'll probably keep the stocking as that now - adding more fish would, for me, affect the visual balance of the tank - and my goal is to replicate a slice of life in a South American tributary somewhere rather than stocking it with species after species.

My research often led me back to little bits of info gleaned from posts from this sub and others, such as r/plantedtanks - so thank you sub for being a valuable resource.

Whilst this is my first aquarium I learnt a lot along the journey - If you got any questions on something then I'm happy to share my experience with it.

Thanks for stopping by and checking this post out, the Rosy Tetra say hi.