LCD v Plasma televisions

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Undertaker · #1 Post by **Undertaker** » Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:00 am

Has anyone got an opinion on which is the better? They both seem to have some advantages over each other.

Ta.

One of the crowd · Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:02 am

You didnt kick in your TV last night by chance, did you?

dVTB · #3 Post by **dVTB** » Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:34 am

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Undertaker · #4 Post by **Undertaker** » Thu 22 Nov 2007, 12:19 pm

One of the crowd wrote:You didnt kick in your TV last night by chance, did you?

No. I watched the game whilst wearing my Scott Carson mask. I picked the t.v up and i dropped it

Undertaker · #5 Post by **Undertaker** » Thu 22 Nov 2007, 12:21 pm

dVTB wrote:My parents recently bought a plasma TV, which was adviced to them by the electronics shop owner, who happens to be family. A family member wouldn't give a wrong advice, would he?

Early plasma TV's had some problems, like imagines staying printed in the screen after being shown too long. This problem has been solved, though. You can be sure that plasma TV's deliver great picture quality. I don't know about LCD TV's.

Cheers. I had a read up about both and read about the images staying on the screen with a Plasma but it seems they have been improved. LCD t.v's don't seem to have the greatest picture from what i've just seen in the shop. So i think i'll go Plasma.

gregf · #6 Post by **gregf** » Thu 22 Nov 2007, 3:44 pm

LCDs are the same technology as our computer screens.
So they show the picture a little better when there is sunlight around.
And are good if you want to plug a computer or game console in.

Plasma have a warmer picture and are better at night.

Both use the same amount of power. But don't mention GW.

The biggest difference is cost. Plasma is less expensive to make bigger screens.
So there are not a lot of LCDs over 42".

If you want a small screen for daytime/kitchen viewing get an LCD.

I wanted a big screen, best for night viewing, at least cost, so I have a plasma.

Minor faults in both, like burn in for plasma or dead pixels for LCD are more
or less, solved problems.

West 4th · #7 Post by **West 4th** » Sat 01 Dec 2007, 5:58 pm

Well some of the problems aren't completely solved. I got a Plasma back in May of this year and I had a friend who got a Plasma a couple months before. His is Panasonic and mine is Pioneer. Borth are 42" screens and we've both had experince with "After image" or burn in as it's also called, although burn-in means it's permanent and after-image isn't. You do have to be careful about keeping a static image up on the screen of a Plasma for long. When i pause live TV or DVR shows and DVDs I usually then turn the TV off. I did have a problem when I was playing PS2 on it for a couple of hours, i could see the fixed map still retaining the image after I turned it off. Fortunately I left the tv on regular tv and after about a 1 day it was gone so. Apparently though after-image is not as bad on the newer ones but I think you still need to worry about it.

Having said that I still would have bought the plasma because the picture is amazing on HD programs and even DVD's look pretty good.

There's one other downside to LCDs too. They are a bit slower than plasma to create images so if there's fast action on the screen you tend to know the screen lagging a big or what they call "artifacts" that Plasma screens don't have problems with. If you have an laptop and every played DVD's on it you may have noticed that if there was fast moving action and stuff going on. I think they've been getting much better about that though so the newer LCD's may be ok now.

psb-freak · #8 Post by **psb-freak** » Sat 01 Dec 2007, 8:00 pm

Just a normal old tv. I still don´t get why people get excited about lcd or plasma tvs.

Janet Street-Porter · Sun 02 Dec 2007, 10:00 am

psb-freak wrote:Just a normal old tv. I still don´t get why people get excited about lcd or plasma tvs.

You can only watch the Chris Lowe at Home channel on a new TV.

redsock · #10 Post by **redsock** » Sun 02 Dec 2007, 12:09 pm

Was going to order a new TV today

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-KDL-70X350 ... GW839D0YQX

but the stingy gits at Amazon wouldn't give me free delivery, so they've lost that sale .....

Seriously though, how can you justify paying that for a TV ???

Fugitive1979 · #11 Post by **Fugitive1979** » Sun 02 Dec 2007, 2:12 pm

redsock wrote:Was going to order a new TV today

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-KDL-70X350 ... GW839D0YQX

but the stingy gits at Amazon wouldn't give me free delivery, so they've lost that sale .....

Seriously though, how can you justify paying that for a TV ???

If you have got more money than sense.

@ JSP's comment.

West 4th · #12 Post by **West 4th** » Tue 04 Dec 2007, 10:30 pm

redsock wrote:Was going to order a new TV today

Seriously though, how can you justify paying that for a TV ???

Well that looks like it's for a home movie theater. If you plan on building one in your house I'm guessing that the TV is probably is pocket change compared to the whole project.

transforce · #13 Post by **transforce** » Fri 07 Dec 2007, 6:33 pm

We ordered an LCD and were so horrified by the picture quality we sent it back thinking it was faulty. Plasma is FAR superior!

Undertaker · #14 Post by **Undertaker** » Fri 07 Dec 2007, 9:44 pm

Cheers for the info. Same as you, Transforce. I got a 37 inch LCD and sent it back. It wouldn't tune in properly anyway but the picture was different on every channel. Football was terrible to watch.

Just got a Hitatchi 42 inch Plasma. 650 quid, so not a bad price. Not set it up yet though.

beautyqueen85 · #15 Post by **beautyqueen85** » Sat 08 Dec 2007, 7:02 am

From my friends at Best Buy and Circuit City, Hitachi is not a good investment, hopefully it works for you.

I went for 42" HP LCD's because of the illumination at home, just perfect.