Flat Screen TVs

never tried plasma.. but I’m going to tell you straight out that LCD’s won’t be the best for gaming. Like everything else that uses an LCD.. cell phones, the PSP, laptops, etc. You run a high risk of having dead pixels. Both when purchasing.. and even if pixel perfect.. dead pixels developing in the future. There’s not much you can do about them.. and it really sucks if you develop a cluster in the middle!

Furthermore, current LCD technologies have not yet had the same refresh rates as a CRT. Meaning, you’re gonna see ghosting when there are fast moving objects (very apparent when playing games).

btw, still in shock you’re married. You are no longer cool! :diablo:

LCD’s would be it except for the sceen door effect. Plug a game
in the TV you want befor eyou buy it.

LCD’s may look incredible with a picture on them,but for action,
the same tv can look terrible.

Video games usually look terrible on LCDs just because of this
effect, if somethign moves, or fades in and out,it leaves a trace ont
he screen – it’s hard to describe, so you have to see for yourself.

Besides, lcd’s don’t really come any bigger than 37 inches, and
they’re more expensive than plasma in the big sizes.

I hear later model, high end plasmas have measures to fix burn in
to a degree. Plasmas will cotinue to dim over their lives, but
should last ~10 years. LCD’s will last longer as a whole, but
performance degredation means the loss of individual pixels,
leaving you withn holes in you picture.

I’ve been researching this myself – I’m only going to get an LCD if
they fix that window problem. Otherwise, I’m only gettin gCRT’s
and plasmas – anything with a projection burns out in 3-5 years,
which is unacceptable for me. 34″ and under, I’d get a CRT, over
that, get plasma – but test it first, digital cable can look terrible on
HDTV’s if they don’t have the right line doubler. HDTV will look
grea ton al of them,but regualr digital TV (that’s not HD ) will have
to be scaled to display on the HDTV – you’re trying to put 480
lines of resolution on a screen with over 1000, sometimes this
looks great, sometimes it looks worse than an analog TV.

The most important thing to do before buying an HDTV is to see
what it looks like displaying all signals – HD, analog (includes
DVD!), and video games.

The following is taken from Sound and Vision.Nov 2005

L.C.D.
Pros……
Only a few inches deep
Higher resolution than plasma at similar screen sizes
Uses less power,runs cooler,and weighs less than plasma
No danger of “burn-in”

Cons……
More expensive than similar-sized plasmas
Of the fixed-pixel technologies,L.C.D. has the most trouble with black.Some light always passes through,even when the crystals are in an untwisted state,so the best black is usually a very dark grey
Because of how light goes through the cells,L.C.D. flat-panel displays usually have narrower viewing angles than plasma
L.C.D.’s require more space between pixels,which can result in a “screen-door” effect

Plasma
Pros……
Slim design and large screen size
Uniformly bright picture over a wide viewing angle-even in a brightly lit room
Exellent image quality,especially compared with L.C.D. Plasmas use phosphors to produce colour,just like CRT’s,resulting in excellent saturation and natural hues
While performance on dark scenes varies widely,some models approach CRT-level blacks

Cons……
Lower resolution than L.C.D.’s causing slightly softer HDTV images
Subject to burn-in

After taking all that in,have you considered a Front Projector ?

Have fun deciding 🙂

Get LCD if u want it to last longer and with more brightness over the period..Plasma is awsome but the half life is shorter.

Here’s the story. The wife finally agreed to let me get a gigantoid flat-screen TV. My question to you all is, what should I get, LCD or plasma? Is an LCD preferable over a plasma screen? I play a lot of video games, so will I destroy a plasma screen through burn-in? Anybody have any experiences or expertise to share?

So far, I’m leaning towards a Panasonic TH-50PHD8UK plasma display. Not worried about an actual all-up HDTV, as I have digital cable anyway (and the TV version is around $3000 USD more). This is apparently the end-all, be-all of plasma displays on the market right now. Here’s a link: http://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?displayTab=O&storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=94540&catGroupId=32751&modelNo=TH-50PHD8UK&surfModel=TH-50PHD8UK

SOC, I work for a chain called Future Shop which a subsidiary of Best Buy. You right to say that you will burn your screen in the long run if you play a lot of video games. The best thing I can recommend if that you head down to your neighborhood Best Buy or Circuit City and have a chat with a sales associate from the Home Theatre department. They’ll probably have the model you want on display and you’ll be able to see the picture first hand. I take a look at all of the models we have in store and its hard to choose which one has the best picture. In the end, it’s all about preference!
Have fun shopping! 🙂 It’s quite an experience to see our customers look at several different models and try to figure out which one it is they want.