Best TV's Plasma or LCD ?

[Steve]

Just interested in peoples experiences with plasma and LCD TV's? Anyone
truly happy with there set up of HDTV? And your configuration of STB, TV and
sound system? Might save some people like me a lot of time and money with
your expertise.....
Thanking you Steve

[Ben Thomas]

Steve wrote:
> Just interested in peoples experiences with plasma and LCD TV's? Anyone
> truly happy with there set up of HDTV? And your configuration of STB, TV and
> sound system? Might save some people like me a lot of time and money with
> your expertise.....
> Thanking you Steve
>
>

I suggest you do a google groups search of this news group as this topic has
been discussed at length in the past.

I happen to have a 3.5 year old HD plasma and am very happy with it, although
the HDTEC2000A set top box isn't the best.

I suggest you buy what you like the look of, as some people prefer plasmas and
others prefer LCDs visually regardless of specs regarding brightness, contrast, etc.

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Ben Thomas - Software Engineer - Melbourne, Australia

My Digital World:
Kodak DX6490, Canon i9950, Pioneer A05;
Hitachi 37" HD plasma display, DGTEC 2000A,
Denon 2800, H/K AVR4500, Whatmough Encore;
Sony Ericsson K700i, Palm Tungsten T.

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[mark]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:55:45 +1100, Steve wrote:
> Just interested in peoples experiences with plasma and LCD TV's? Anyone
> truly happy with there set up of HDTV? And your configuration of STB, TV
> and sound system? Might save some people like me a lot of time and money
> with your expertise.....

This issue is being debated currently over at:

http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=13728

[Steve Simpson]

> Just interested in peoples experiences with plasma and LCD TV's? Anyone
> truly happy with there set up of HDTV? And your configuration of STB, TV
> and sound system? Might save some people like me a lot of time and money
> with your expertise.....

They're both lacklustre technologies that are inferior to CRT in every way
except size and profile. There's vastly superior flat panel displays
arriving in the next 5 years that will be able to match CRT performance at
huge plasma sizes. Personally, I prefer plasma displays over LCDs since I
find the blurry motion very irritating - even on the very latest 8ms
(supposedly) PC LCDs.

[Ken Oaf]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:55:45 +1100, "Steve" <stevedickson@optushome.com.au>
wrote:

> Just interested in peoples experiences with plasma and LCD TV's? Anyone
> truly happy with there set up of HDTV? And your configuration of STB, TV and
> sound system? Might save some people like me a lot of time and money with
> your expertise.....

In order, best first:-

CRT
LCD
Plasma
Rear Projection
LCD Projector.

[Steve Simpson]

I'm curious, in what way are LCDs superior to plasma in your opinion?

[Ken Oaf]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:25:13 +1000, "Steve Simpson" <guest@anon.com> wrote:

> I'm curious, in what way are LCDs superior to plasma in your opinion?

To me, the LCD picture seems brighter and clearer than that of a plasma screen.

[Ben Thomas]

Ken Oaf wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:25:13 +1000, "Steve Simpson" <guest@anon.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm curious, in what way are LCDs superior to plasma in your opinion?
>
>
> To me, the LCD picture seems brighter and clearer than that of a plasma screen.
>
>

My plama's brightness and contrast controls are set quite low. I could increase
them to get a much brighter picture, but it would look crap.

I'd say clarity is something non-user controllable and that is what should
really distinguish the quality of plasma and LCD screens.

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Ben Thomas - Software Engineer - Melbourne, Australia

My Digital World:
Kodak DX6490, Canon i9950, Pioneer A05;
Hitachi 37" HD plasma display, DGTEC 2000A,
Denon 2800, H/K AVR4500, Whatmough Encore;
Sony Ericsson K700i, Palm Tungsten T.

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[Bruce Janson]

....
>>>I'm curious, in what way are LCDs superior to plasma in your opinion?
....

Steve, Ken, Ben, others,
For those of us who live in cramped, poorly ventilated apartments, CRTs,
rear-projection devices and perhaps even projectors are (some or all of)
too big, hot or noisy. Today, this leaves plasma and LCD screens.
Perhaps like you, I seem to be lurching towards the purchase of one of
these ridiculously expensive devices and so have been visiting stores,
accumulating cuttings from newspapers, googling and exploring the home
pages of Huge Multinational Corporations (and their minions, the Retail
Outlets).
So far, the information that I have found has often been contradictory,
presumably because the properties of both plasmas and LCDs are still
evolving. Nevertheless, I now have at least a shopping list of important
features that I can use to help me to decide. Appended is my current
feature list along with vague assessments of how (some claim that) good
quality, 30"-50" examples of the two technologies compare:

LCD Plasma
price $1.7x/m2 $x/m2
contrast <=700:1 <=1000:1
colour saturation ok better
pixel areal density better ok
moving images ok better
static images better ok
viewing angle 175deg 160deg
screen burn-in no yes
flicker no yes
pixel response >=16ms >=15ms
fan(s) no yes
longevity >50,000hrs >30,000hrs
pixel integrity ok better
power consumption low high
mass light heavy
heat output low high
brightness 450cd/m2 100cd/m2
dvi-d/hdmi yes yes

(If you know of any other relevant features please speak up.)

Regards,
bruce.

[Ben Thomas]

Bruce Janson wrote:

Plasma in my experience:

> viewing angle 175deg 160deg

wide enough

> screen burn-in no yes

easily avoided

> flicker no yes

not noticable

> fan(s) no yes

No.

> longevity >50,000hrs >30,000hrs

long enough

> mass light heavy

Not heavy compared to CRT of same screen size.

> heat output low high

not noticable

> brightness 450cd/m2 100cd/m2

Bright enough.

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Ben Thomas - Software Engineer - Melbourne, Australia

My Digital World:
Kodak DX6490, Canon i9950, Pioneer A05;
Hitachi 37" HD plasma display, DGTEC 2000A,
Denon 2800, H/K AVR4500, Whatmough Encore;
Sony Ericsson K700i, Palm Tungsten T.

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