So, how does 2500 FFD perform? Let’s start with the REALLY good. Black levels are simply insane and by far the largest deciding factor on how they’ll look in your home will be the ambient lighting conditions of your room. The black is so deep, in fact, we couldn’t get anything like an accurate reading with a full black pattern on screen but we did manage to measure it at 0.0095 cd/m2 on an ANSI checkerboard pattern. We don’t necessarily even trust that measurement, however, but what we do trust is our eyes and, in a blackened out room side by side with a 2010 Panasonic plasma, it absolutely wiped the floor with its predecessor.