mr91 :
Almost everything you're saying is baseless because you don't have much hands on experience with TN or IPS/PLS Monitors, you're just regurgitating jargon from some review sites...
How would you know, you've been ASSuming almost everything you say about my experience. I help a lot of people with their computers and they have various displays. I've seen even high gamut displays that look like crap for some uses because they look over saturated.
I'm not going to sit here and quantify your claims based on YOUR personal views when all you do is blow smoke up Nvidias GSync, yet you don't even own one yourself.
At first I was willing to pass this off as personal preferences, but you're clearly indulging in smug elitism based on what friends rather than yourself own, and trying to label me as inexperienced in the process.
The bottom line is, out of the two of us, you're the only one in this conversation that's admitted you'd give up PQ for a little more speed. As you recall, I was the one that stated I'd rather have the PQ than the speed, and I was referring to your beloved GSync TN when I said that.
As for PLS, what a lot of people don't know about it is the main reason Samsung went to it is reduced production cost. The "superior" image quality is mainly just their claim. I've yet to see one out of the box that looks better than mine, and most everyone that owns one talks about needing to calibrate them. Other than that they have more brightness. Mine has plenty brightness and it's not even LED. CCFL is more color accurate than LED too.
I also don't know what Panny you're even referring to when you say mine doesn't compare, or what mode it was in. Panny doesn't even make their own LCD panels anymore, and when they did, they made Alpha IPS ones that had superior black levels and color accuracy. I also only use mine in Game mode without the video processing. It looks very sharp and color accurate that way. The reason Panny ran into financial problems is unlike other manufacturers, they weren't cutting tech corners and in the process, costs, like many others, including LG and Samsung, whom if anything are the two manufacturers that can afford NOT to cut corners.
There's a lot of self proclaimed experts on displays surfing the net and what it often comes down to is they're just parroting manufacturers claims and/or raves of their friends. It's even escalated to the devolution of tech, preferring a bit more speed for less image quality. The distinguishing factor in any of these arguments is typically not what you own or have owned, but what you're willing to settle for. And that's you in a nutshell. You even admitted it, so you're acting so cocky like you know more is laughable.