From a pure industrial design standpoint, Samsung's PN50C8000 impressed us right away with its exceedingly thin, 1.4-inch panel depth, brushed titanium surfacing, clear neck, and slick, snazzy remote. The display’s clear outer frame with integrated see-through buttons only raised the wow factor higher, and we had high hopes for this classy-looking display. The Samsung provides four HDMI inputs, two USB inputs and an Ethernet port, as well as bespoke online apps via Samsung Apps, the company’s IPTV service. Like the Panasonic, you get Netflix, YouTube, Pandora, and Twitter apps, but the PN50C8000 adds Blockbuster, Hulu, ESPN, and Facebook as well. During our side-by-side comparisons of still photos, it was immediately apparent that the Samsung produced oversaturated colors, as compared to Panasonic's Viera TC-P50VT25. continually erring toward warmer color temperatures. Faces were pinker, scenes were warmer, and bright colors popped with intensity. Unfortunately, still images also suffered a loss of detail compared to the Panasonic. In one photograph of a night-time scene, significant amounts of fine detailing in shadows and highlights were simply missing in the Samsung picture.