lcd,led, or plasma
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LOL at some responses..
Okay.. there are a few things e_pill was pretty much right.
Plasma advantages:
it's great for gaming (due to lack of refresh rates) and it has great blacks (even cheaper plasmas have much better blacks than the comparable LCDs) and it has nicer and more natural colors than LCDs. The viewing angles are also great.Plasmas are more mature technology. Panasonic is at 10th generation now. This allows plasmas screens in general to be more cost effective on larger screens.. that's why you can pick a lot more larger screen plasma screens 55+" than LCDs. LCD costs go up dramatically with size.
- Superior contrast
Plasma disadvantages:
- They are heavier than LCDs
- They consumer more power
- They have sometimes issues at high altitudes due to pressure differences between your screen and air
- They are made in larger sizes but you can't find plasmas in sizes generally less than 40".- Plasmas can have some issues with very bright rooms.. It can make your screen less viewable.
- Image retention still happens. Burn in has been solved but image retention happens.. They do have much better technology now to prevent this from happening. Samsung for example uses pixel orbiters to constantly refresh display pixels so it lowers the chance of image retention. Of course if you do have images show on screen after prolonged use, most plasmas have WIPE effect that goes white pixels across the full screen that cleans anything like that.
LCD advantages:
- Lower power consumption
- Lower cost of manufacturing and in retail for smaller screens
- You can in effect get a 30-32" LCD TV
- If you do like super bright colors LCD offers super color saturation. Generally LCD have better brightness.
- They are generally lighter and thinner
- No altitude problems
- LCDs usually have sharper image than plasmasLCD disadvantages:
- Refresh rates are still causing blurring effect in fast paced scenes.. The reason they advertise 120hz and 240hz as a feature is funny. They actually have to push the refresh rates to those levels to try to compensate for the problem. Unfortunately if you do use 120 or 240hz you will get that effect of unnatural looking movie. Almost like it was shot with handheld camera.- LCD colors are pretty bad.. Only the top top end LCD TV sets have colors that can be comparable to plasmas. Same goes for blacks. What manufacturers do is deliberately make their TV sets over saturated in color (Samsung does that) by default so it looks better to a uninformed consumer. It makes a bigger "wow" factor but unfortunately if you want to lower that effect, if you bought a mid-range LCD TV you will have issues with washed out colors.
- Viewing angles. They are pretty high, but worse than LCD. On lower end displays especially.
- Contrast is also a problem with LCDs. Especially when you look at greyscale.
- Pixel quality can be also an issue. People report as much as 10 dead pixels. Plasma doesn't operate with pixels so it doesn't have that problem.
- LCDs handle resolutions poorly. If you are watching a picture that's 480p or something in between and your LCD display's native resolution is 1080p, the picture will be worse than on plasmas.
- LCD TVs are in general very expensive when they go past 50".
LED TVs are LCD TVs but with a lot of plasma ideas and advantages included. LED TVs have an unbelievable picture due to the fact they use LED backlighting instead of old cold cathode fluorescent lights. Their color saturation, the contrast and blacks are superb mostly because the display is now equally lit from the back across the full surface. They have less refresh problems and have much greater color gamut.
They are super thin and consume even less power (20-30%) than LCDs. They are better for environment too due to less pollution when disposed.
The big negative about LED TVs is that they are super pricey. 65" Plasma 1080p is now less than $2k.. 65" LED display is $5k.
But in a year or two, when prices drop, LED is the TV you want to buy.