I have been looking for an LCD telly for me mum. Looking at the diverse choice, one thing appears to blight every one I have viewed. Images look great until the scenery starts moving. When the picture is moving, the panels seem to introduce a kind of shimmering texture to all the moving areas of the image, foreground foliage quickly becomes a solid green mass, losing all texture and detail and there is a shadow following fast moving contrast areas.

I think the manufactureres know this and Sony in particular has a film that is shown on the bravia tvs that is predominanatly good looking stills. Colour and contrast on these sets is better than most, but give them a moving image and it all goes a bit wrong.

So is it just my eyesight are or LCD televisions :pants: ?

Chris

PS, as an unfortuate side effect of looking in TV shops, I now feel the need for a nice LG 42" HD Plasma that I saw.

So is it just my eyesight are or LCD televisions :pants: ?

Chris

PS, as an unfortuate side effect of looking in TV shops, I now feel the need for a nice LG 42" HD Plasma that I saw.

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Me Mum wants a smallish TV, 26" or so and wants a main name brand, so Sony or Panasonic are prefferred. She whould happily go for a CRT, but the main name brands no longer make them.

Chris

I love my CRT and hopefully it will last until the new SED tellys are out and have come down a bit in price.

We have had a LCD for about 18 months now, it was the cheapest about at the time, I would have preffered plasma but was put off by the fact that if one pixel goes the tellys fubar, and the built in area we have for a tv struggled to fit in a 28" crt (depth wise) let alone owt bigger. On older recordings (eg repeats of only fools and horses) I agree ith what you are saying that even mouth movements can appear blurred but on fresh digital broadcasts eg Rugby league on sky don't look bad at all. The blacks probably aren't as black as they could be but its not bad as a compromise between price size and quality.

As said its not your eyes, its the slow pixel response inherant in most LCD tv's.

postmanpat, I have had a plasma TV for nearly 3 years now and the screen is no more susceptible to dead pixels than any LCD. The same applies to both, if you lose a pixel you lose just one not the whole screen. Pixel failures on plasma is virtually unheard of.

Sorry to hijack thread a bit:O

postmanpat, I have had a plasma TV for nearly 3 years now and the screen is no more susceptible to dead pixels than any LCD. The same applies to both, if you lose a pixel you lose just one not the whole screen. Pixel failures on plasma is virtually unheard of.

TBH when I was first looking about 2 years ago this was one of the things quoted to me by one of the major retailers so just took it at face value. I have been looking around again today and saw a Hitachi 42" HD for £999 at Tesco. This was advertised as a LCD, however when I started to search the net for inf I found that on the Tesco web it was advertised as a Plasma and in fact Hitachi don't appear to do a 42" LCD So much for info in store. The TV in question does look and sound quite fine though and is nearly £1400 at currys etc. After searching on the net Flat TV People : LCD TVs versus Plasma Televisions two things do concern me about Plasma over LCD, burn if using it for xbox 360, anyone had any issues (know there meant to be built in safeguards in modern tellies) and also the mentioned fragility as it would be on a table top stand with mad dog and swmbo who practices extreme polishing:D

brother's had a plasma for like 2-3 years and it's got zero burn in, despite him having left games paused with the screen on for an hour+ it's on the wall in our front room now, but he used to have it on a table top stand - the extra weight over an lcd gave it some stability (but most tv's wouldn't like being knocked off the table)

those lg hd plasma displays always look loverly :drool:

So is it just my eyesight are or LCD televisions :pants: ?

Chris

My Samsung 26" LCD is great. Better than my old CRT (or the bedroom CRT) by some way.

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/GENNA/318/404/-/924621/Samsung_26_LE26R74BDX_XEU_Freeview_HD_Ready_Widescreen_LCD_TV/Product.html?searchtype=genre

It does show up problems on a duff source, but with a good source the picture is excellent, and no smearing as far as I can see.

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One of my mates has a 32" Philips LCD from late this year (ie a few months old) and fed with either Telewest Cable or DVD I really don't like it.

It's sharp enough, but when the camera pans across a scene in either TV or Movie, it has an effect like a mid-eighties cheap US soap opera or something... Really jerky.

At 32", until HD is commonplace, I reckon I'd prefer a late model Wide Trinitron.

Now 42" is a different matter... Got to be Plasma IMHO. Much more natural and fluid... A pleasure to watch.

I hope I don't offend any LCD owners reading this... It's all just my opinion.

One of my mates has a 32" Philips LCD from late this year (ie a few months old) and fed with either Telewest Cable or DVD I really don't like it.

It's sharp enough, but when the camera pans across a scene in either TV or Movie, it has an effect like a mid-eighties cheap US soap opera or something... Really jerky.

At 32", until HD is commonplace, I reckon I'd prefer a late model Wide Trinitron.

Now 42" is a different matter... Got to be Plasma IMHO. Much more natural and fluid... A pleasure to watch.

I hope I don't offend any LCD owners reading this... It's all just my opinion.

Pretty much as I see it as well. I was watching a Sony KDL something or other today, 26" LCD and have to say it is the best I have seen yet, but really no match for a good CRT yet. Sharpness and colour are good, but when panning shots are covered, things really dont hold together as well as they should for the money.

The Samsung runs it a close second I would say.

Chris

A retailler I know has stopped doing Sony products, especially the plasma's in favour of Samsung. The reason being Samsung are cheaper, and make the Sony plasma screens........so why pay extra for nothing other than a badge?

A retailler I know has stopped doing Sony products, especially the plasma's in favour of Samsung. The reason being Samsung are cheaper, and make the Sony plasma screens........so why pay extra for nothing other than a badge?

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Not too sure who makes for who TBH. I know Sony make LCD panels, athough I dont know if they make TV ones. Also important is the image processing and drive technology, the Sony 26" Bravia defiantley has a better image quality (in terms of moving objects) than the Samsung, but colour and contrast wise, they seem very similar.

For Plasmas, the LG 42" HD one I saw (can't remember the model number but was

Following up the burn from gaming on plasma panels.

My Xbox360 has been connected to my current plasma from day one, and I have no major issues with gaming. Many hours have been spent playing testdrive unlimited, PGR3 and Fightnight round 3.

I have an LG 42" Plasma --- and it's fantastic -- I've seen both LCD's and Plasma's at more money, but none that better the LG.