Good to hear mate!!!
The 2.5d you speak of is a common comment with this panel, and it's to do with the awesome contrast separating the lights and darks in a scene so well. first hand youve just seen why contrast is so important
Just to explain a few things: the panel won't show any real signs blur as it is too quick In its response, even GT5 has some blur programmed into its output to smooth the image with most things you watch but what you may be looking at is the intelligent frame creation function getting in the way: All movies so far have been shot at 24 frames a second, so naturally to reduce the judder effect the director uses a slow shutter speed and as a cosiquence the scene is shot with some blur. If intelligent frame creation is on it smooths the image further and makes the blur in the film obvious. If you turn it off then it's less noticeable, but then you bring back the judder in the image- which to be honest, is actually how it's meant to be.
if in doubt, pause whatever it Is you are watching if possible, and if the scene is blurry when paused then you know why you can see blurr!
For gaming especially, TURN OFF INTELIGENT FRAME CREATION!!!! You will find it under advanced picker settings from memory.
In regards to the white, plasma's clip bright white as part of the way they work, but it has little effect on the actual colour output. Which is why plasma's can generate more colours than any other display tech at this time, and buy some margin.