LCD or Plasma?

"mike o'sullivan" wrote in message
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Buying a new 42" tv soon and can not decide between the two technologies.
Any opinions would be welcome.

Worth a read:

http://www.pioneer.co.uk/files/eur/P...whitepaper.pdf

Buying a new 42" tv soon and can not decide between the two
technologies. Any opinions would be welcome.

"mike o'sullivan" wrote in message
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Buying a new 42" tv soon and can not decide between the two technologies.
Any opinions would be welcome.

Plasma doesn't have "smearing" across the picture due to poor refresh rates.
Plasma only lasts about 5 years and then you might aswell bin it - plus the
dogs used on some channels get burnt in to the screen.
Whatever you do, search using the price comparison sites. If it's anywhere
like Currys be aware of their dual pricing that cons people calling in to
the shops. You can often go home, order via the net and return to collect
for hundreds less - from the same shop. It drives the staff mad.
Avoid extended warranties, if the TV breaks within 12months it will be
fixed. If it breaks after that then there is an argument to say a TV can
reasonably be expected to last more than 12months.
The company will be in touch after 11 months to offer you a warranty anyway.
No point paying for one in parallel to the manufacturers warranty.

Make sure you watch the LCD using maybe a DVD of fast moving pictures. Make
one up of video clips from the TV. Anything with "XD engine" - avoid, they
are years behind in terms of technology. If you like football or tennis
forget it. You see the ball only when it lands or stops and the background
becomes a solid colour until the camera stops moving. Also watch the news
with moving text on the bottom of the screen, some LCDs show it blurred.

You will be quite annoyed with LCD if you get the wrong make and model.
Cheap ones are often rubbish. Check all the reviews.

"Green Xenon [Radium]" wrote in message
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mike o'sullivan wrote:
Buying a new 42" tv soon and can not decide between the two technologies.
Any opinions would be welcome.

As always plasma provides better image/video quality than LCDs. However,
plasmas are extremely expensive.


Interesting all the experts me to get LCD.
HD 1080 if i do not watch football, in that case to get the MD one.
Regards
David

"mike o'sullivan" wrote in message
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Buying a new 42" tv soon and can not decide between the two technologies.
Any opinions would be welcome.

All Toshiba models I've seen are absolute crap.

Panasonic are best for Plasma and Sony are the only make with decent quality
LCD displays with uniform illumination and black which looks black.

Don't expect anything to last more than 5 years. You'll be lucky if you get
3 years normal viewing, 12 hours a day. At the present moment in time the
prices are a complete and utter rip-off. Expect to pay £3000 for a decent
quality HD 1080p display. Do not buy any of the 720p displays because they
are cheep since this is not really high definition and you can find a CRT
screen of the same size for 1/4 of the price (£200) which will give you a
better picture and last twice as long. If you don't need a new TV don't buy
anything untill the time comes when you can get a Sony/Panasonic 1080p
display for £800.

Remember NO national HDTV service exists at present or is likely to come
into being before 2012, and then it will probably only be on Satellite, so
you are wasting you money whatever you buy.

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"mike o'sullivan" wrote in message
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Buying a new 42" tv soon and can not decide between the two technologies.
Any opinions would be welcome.

Worth a read:

http://www.pioneer.co.uk/files/eur/P...whitepaper.pdf

But what is the real conclusion? Is Plasma better than LCD or do Pioneer
and Panasonic make crap LCD TVs?

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Alan
news2006 {at} amac {dot} f2s {dot} com

"David" wrote in message
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"Green Xenon [Radium]" wrote in message
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mike o'sullivan wrote:
Buying a new 42" tv soon and can not decide between the two
technologies. Any opinions would be welcome.

As always plasma provides better image/video quality than LCDs. However,
plasmas are extremely expensive.


Interesting all the experts me to get LCD.
HD 1080 if i do not watch football, in that case to get the MD one.
Regards
David

Plasma sounds more sexy - so Chav!

I hope my CRT lasts a few more years until flat screens come down to the
price that reflects their true cost (bearing in mind the shipping advantage
of flat screens v CRT). Less copper, glass, components,etc

Sony are the only make with decent quality
LCD displays with uniform illumination and black which looks black.

Interesting as Sony LCDs seem to come from Samsung roots according to
a recent bit of inside information.
Sound is not as good as some either.

My personal choice would be plasma every time, remembering that
plasmas don't go much below 42". So smaller would have to be LCD.
Hitachi did make smaller plasmas but not now, as far as I know.

Hitachi have done some interesting research on the pros and cons of
plasma/LCD.
It is quite unbiased as they are one of the few companies that
actually manufacture both types of panel themselves.
They have copies available. Probably on the net somewhere.

On 5 Nov, 01:02, widgitt wrote:
My personal choice would be plasma every time, remembering that
plasmas don't go much below 42". So smaller would have to be LCD.
Hitachi did make smaller plasmas but not now, as far as I know.

Hitachi have done some interesting research on the pros and cons of
plasma/LCD.
It is quite unbiased as they are one of the few companies that
actually manufacture both types of panel themselves.
They have copies available. Probably on the net somewhere.

Any company that does not make the other type of technology will
rubbish it, of course.
A friends query in a Sony shop recently proved that.