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bigboss:

cliffster: 1 fatter

Some of Sony LCDs are fatter than plasmas. Once hung on a wall or kept on a TV stand, does it really matter? My plasma TV is only 6.3 cm thick. Samsung PS50C6500 plasma TV is just 3.68 cm thick.

2 heavier

Again, does it matter? Are you going to lift it everyday? Still, let's compare a 46-inch TV. Panasonic 46G20 weighs 27kg while Sony 46HX903 weighs 30.2kg without stand.

3 noisier

Not really. Some of the plasmas buzz a bit. I can't hear my plasma buzzing.

4 hotter

In my 15 months of use of my plasma, I never noticed it becoming hot.

5 use greater amounts of power

Yes, around £10 per annum extra power than an LCD.

6 have more reflective glass screens

Yes, their glass screens tend to be reflective. Just change the angle of the screen by just a bit to overcome this issue.

7 tend to suffer from phosphor trailing

Extremely rare among newer plasmas. I haven't noticed any in mine.

8 tend to suffer from screen burn

Again, not an issue among newer plasmas. Only 1 LG model & a Samsung model in the current lineup temporarily retain images. Otherwise, this has been overcome.

Have you considered these points about plasmas' advantages over LCDs?

1) Better blacks - great for shadow details & dark scene, and for "cinema quality" experience.

2) Better motion handling inherently with superior response times - Does not require artificial processors like 200Hz etc. & great for watching sports & playing games. LCDs tend to suffer from motion judder a bit more than plasmas.

3) Wider angle of viewing - Although newer LCDs are overcoming this problem, plasmas have a wider off axis viewing.

4) Colour accuracy - Plasmas tend to exhibit colours more accurately than LCDs .This is a personal preference, as many people prefer the oversaturated colours of LCD. Also depends on lighting.

The best TV ever to be made is a plasma (Pioneer Kuro) - this has been endorsed by all the reviews of this TV. It's yet to be surpassed convincingly, even after 2 years. You can check its reviews online.

Have you checked this news?

All I'm saying is, choose a TV regardless of technology. Just audition all TVs & pick which you feel has the best picture quality.

Excellent post Bigboss

I couldn't agree more on your points, but I would like to add the following.

Point 5: The emphasis on power rating is hugely overrated. Usually the difference is within 50 Watt. Do you also chose the 750 Watt receiver compared to the 800 Watt receiver no matter which sounds the best?

Point 6: Again, oversimplified. Yes, traditionally plasma screen had a glass front whereas LCD screens didn't. But that has changed dramatically during the last years. It is becomming more and more usual for LCD screens to have a glass front. Take Sony (NX range) and LG for instance. Panasonic on the other hand has actually removed the front glass from the G, V and VT range of their plasma screens.

 

[Anonymous]

professorhat:
bigboss:All I'm saying is, choose a TV regardless of technology. Just audition all TVs & pick which you feel has the best picture quality.

this is of course true , however when one is sitting in the sweet spot , ie , directly in front of an lcd tv , they get to see the best picture , other potential family members etc , that are sitting to either side of the sweet spot , often get to see a slightly more washed out image.

the more to the side , the more washed out , this of course varies from one lcd to the next , some are better than others in this regard , but all lcd tvs suffer from viewing angle issues , plasmas do not , all those viewing an lcd tv at any one time , cant be getting the same picture quality that the tv was chosen for ..

 

[aliEnRIK]

grifz:Believe me LAG is down to the servers, broadband speed, and time of day. I have £1700 47"philips and my son has a £200 32"tecnicks tesco tv. If these tvs can handle hd live sports they easily handle video games. I have both console PS3 and XBOX360 . The 360 suffers the most lag cos of the Yanks who i blame for most problems anyway. The 360 seems to LAG early morning and late evening just as the Yanks are going to bed and getting up. So your problem is Yanks not 1080p processing ability. Have i mentioned the yanks?

The talks about tv input LAG, which DOES exist on a lot of tvs

 

[landzw]

Games on the 360 are 720p and all LCD Tv's do not have a fast enough response time , anything under 5ms would be ideal , but i think you will find even with the lcd Tv in game mode it will still have a response time of around 28ms ( at best )

I'm unsure about plasma as i've never looked into it

You can still find a handful of the top pc gamers still using there 22inch CRT monitors as these always gave the best response rate

If i was to buy another TV taking my xbox into account i would try a plasma next as these are meant to be better , though if your serious about getting the best from you'r xbox and are not planning in using the dvd player or sky player i would buy a cheap 22 computer LCD monitor with a 2ms response as these are cheap as chips now and would get the best from your xbox

 

[Anonymous]

I can vouch for an LCD that does gaming well, the Philips PFL479664, it has a response time of only 1ms. As soon as my PS3 goes on it auto-selects the 'game' mode and it is brilliant. I tried switching the it back to regular TV settings to see if there was much difference and online gaming was almost impossible! Like the reviews here suggest, the Philips do take some tweaking, once you've nailed it though and have the settings stored it's a cracking TV for everything.