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Looking for a Big TV

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corup7ion

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I've been looking around newegg, and decided I want to go as large as I can with my budget.

I'm thinking somewhere from 600-800 max, and it looks like LCD wise 650-800 is like 42-46 inch, low quality.

I found a 1080 50 inch plasma tv, panasonic, for 799.

I was just wondering if someone could explain the differences between LCD/ PLASMA/ LED and maybe point me at some tv's in my price range..

I'm kind of going with going bigger and giving up some specs for more size..
 
What are you using it for mainly? PC gaming? Consoles? Video editing? etc
 
LCD/LED are no different in terms of panel technology, they are all LCD. Difference is that LED ones have LED backlights. Means they use less power, can be thinner and can be brighter though normally TVs are more than bright enough. It is nice, but not at all necessary, normal CCFL LCDs look great, I just bought one.

Plasma is a totally different panel technology. Has some definite advantages in some areas, but also has some severe disadvantages. The big one is that it suffers form burn in, so is not suitable for use with static images like video games and completely unsuited for something like web surfing.

As for your price range, sorry, I was looking above that when I bought. Got a 46" LCD I really like, but it was a grand.
 
The 50 inch plasma has "anti-burn in". Are you saying surfing the web or playing xbox is bad on a plasma? most reviews say they have their computers, xbox's bluerays plugged in.
 
corup7ion said:
The 50 inch plasma has "anti-burn in". Are you saying surfing the web or playing xbox is bad on a plasma? most reviews say they have their computers, xbox's bluerays plugged in.
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What does the "anti-burn-in" do? Burn-in is something that plasmas suffer from due to the technology. LCDs are not susceptible to burn-in (only image persistence) and therefore would be preferable from my POV.
 
I would still advise against anyone hooking up a plasma to there PC .. so easy to forget that any static images (regardless if you increase the pixel turn over time to 1 second or not) will cause serious burn in. If you don't have the presence of mind to remember that you'll be really pissed off when you see it and no matter how many times you try to "white bar or white wash" it away and nothing happens.

If you want to hook up a big ass tv to you're computer go with an LCD so you never have to worry about it. If you weren't gonna use you're TV for any computer use I would go with plasma because its better technology.

To help with you're understanding of the differences :

1. LED - light emitting diode .. to put it in simple terms for LCD's this allows the TV to use alot less power and if the TV supports local dimming (where certain LEDs can be turned off producing a deep black contrast) then some of the best contrast you can get. Even none local dimming LED LCD sets have pretty good contrast and thinner frames so thats the main benefits of LED technology.

2.LCD - you should know what this .. liquid crystal display , in everything everywhere these days.

3. Plasma - plasma sets use mostly xenon gas to produce light output , think of it like a CRT except there are tons of little tubes that when electric current gets past through them you get a state of excited electrons otherwise known as plasma. The benefits of plasma technology are pretty great , because they don't rely on each pixel being turned on and off motion blur is very minimal thus they are great for anything with fast motion be that sports , tv and movies also games look fantastic as well. Plasma's have very deep contrast because they don't need to rely on a backlite to produce "light" plasma in its excited state produces it naturally. The downside of plasma's is they suck down alot more power (but the higher end ones these days are pretty excellent on there power usage) and tend to weight more with fatter frames (although they make thin panel plasmas now , atleast Samsung does). Also plasmas can't achieve the brightness of an LCD or LED LCD so for bright rooms they kinda suck ass , but if you're room isn't super bright they look quite amazing.


Bottom line , plasma is better dollar for dollar then LED LCD .. although LED LCDs with local dimming are getting very close to the contrast levels of the best plasmas however as far as motion blur goes plasma is king.

Also ignore dynamic contrast ratio's that are plastered everywhere these days , they mean jack shit .. there is no way to tell if a tv can reach that and its pure "guess work".
 
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I was say the biggest draw back from plasmas and such is needing low light. I would not use it as a computer monitor unless you are one of those crazies without lights coming from the keyboard, mouse, case, etc.

I would say that plasma is perfect for tv however...
 
From my experience with owning a 50" Kuro Plasma over the last 2 1/2 years I'd say they're fine for PC usage and video games, I mean, Ive been gaming on mine heavily and haven't even experienced temporary image retention.

That being said I believe it also depends on the brand / model as far as how sensitive they are to image retention.

However as far as permanent burn-in goes its far less likely to occur on plasmas made over the last 5 years.

It's an unfortunate rumor that always gets overblown which tends to scare people away from plasmas in general.
 
Zellio2010 said:
I was say the biggest draw back from plasmas and such is needing low light. I would not use it as a computer monitor unless you are one of those crazies without lights coming from the keyboard, mouse, case, etc.

I would say that plasma is perfect for tv however...
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Plasmas are considerably brighter than a CRT, Just something to consider.

But LCDs do perform better in bright rooms.
 
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