Plasma or LCD?

currently got a 42" non HD Plasma and looking at either a 50" Full HD Plasma for

Big Plasma Telly

Go on, you know you want one.

Plasma or LCD?

currently got a 42" non HD Plasma and looking at either a 50" Full HD Plasma for

LCD, especially if you want to play games on it.

Plasmas burn out, and you get screen burn like on old CRT monitors

LCD, especially if you want to play games on it.

Plasmas burn out, and you get screen burn like on old CRT monitors

Wrong, the average life of a modern plasma screen is 14 years if run for 12hrs per day.

I have no screen burn on my 42" HD ready plasma, despite many, many hours of gaming on my xbox 360. The burn in thing was an issue many years ago, but today its irrelevant.

I will never buy a large (40"+) LCD TV, there are far more drawbacks with those on SD material than plasma. Motion smearing is terrible due to poor response times compared to plasma.

same here manny, my PLASMA has NO screen burn despite being about 3.5 years old and it still looks as good as it did the day it arrived but sadly things have moved on since then and i want an HD TV and move my current Plasma elsewhere in the house

TBH i want the Plasma and wanted to know if there were any actual draw backs to them rather than hear say?

the best LCD's at that size have a refresh of about 4ms but most are 8ms or slower where as a Plasma is as quick as a CRT.

For that size defo still plasma, I spend a bit of time lurking on AV forums. I think upto about 42" plasma vs LCD is getting very close now.

Big Plasma Telly

Go on, you know you want one.

room's not quite big enough :thumbdwn: although clarity is still pretty decent even when you're only 5 feet or so away from it... :rubchin:

If only I could get a decent digital photograph of BBC HD, on my plasma its a mind blowing picture, and thats on a 1024x768 42" HD ready set.

so not even full HD then, we're wanting a full 1080P HD screen

hi i got the 360 add on hd dvd drive running on the latest toshiba 37in hd lcd its totally amazing and no region coding on hd dvd disks yet so get direct imports befor theyre released in the uk

i have a mate who owns a audio visual store

Laserline.uk.net

email dave and he will give you any advice you want

ive got all my dvd players and hd recorders from him region free and normaly cheaper than most places

i would advise geting a good quality upscaling dvd player that runs upto 1080p it makes all the differance when watching your old dvds

Does this site settle the LCD vs Plasma argument?

Which flat screen TV is better: plasma or LCD? - Pioneer UK

Does this site settle the LCD vs Plasma argument?

Which flat screen TV is better: plasma or LCD? - Pioneer UK

NO, as I said earlier for large sizes plasma is still king however up to 40" the consensus is that the latest (last few months) top LCD panels are preety much equals.

i already have an upscaling DVD player with HDMI output

gonna go take a look at that link now

Spent a lot of time looking for a decent picture quality LCD to replace my mothers ageing CRT Sony set. Sad to say that even the very best LCD screens are very poor compared with CRT when it comes to moving images. Personally, I would go for plasma,but for a 50" screen you need to be at the very least 15' from it to get the best viewing.

I will be looking at plasma TV soon, but more pressing need is a new monitor ATM.

Chris

if money wasn't an issue, we'd be getting a pioneer plasma as they're lush, but they cost like 4 grand for the proper good ones

wasn't that a pioneer at dabs for

wasn't that a pioneer at dabs for

just googled that one and you can get it for under

There is a new Samsung True HD 50" plasma, retail is around

If you want big, bengie, there's always 70 inch clicky :P

it's almost CRT deep :eek:

it's almost CRT deep :eek:

True, but looking at that plasma Phil posted earlier. 485 lbs weight :eek: :eek: Fancy hanging that on the wall :eek: :eek: :eek: I know Bengie said weight's not an issue, but that....

Found the 1080p samsung.

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