LCD or Plasma Television

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Which sort would you go for and why?

 

[Dalo Harkin]

LCD all the way - they are a clearer picture and they give off no where near as much heat - I recently bought a 42" Toshiba LCD with digital freeview built in for £600 and that was with a wall mount thrown in too - if you are doing this poll as you are looking to buy mate - let me know and I will fire you a pic over.

[Goku]

I would go with a plasma TV because they provide sharper quality picture but there are some issues with them that ruin the experience.

 

Here is a simple article that puts some of their basic aspects.

 

Plasma vs. LCD: Six things you need to know

 

-- Goku

[Dalo Harkin]

I would go with a plasma TV because they provide sharper quality picture

 

If this is the case then why does EVERYONE use LCD PC monitors, I am not being picky for the sake of it mate but you have to look at the ratios to understand why an LCD is better and therefore they provide a better quality

[Guest Wolfeymole]

I chose plasma for the better picture.

 

Here's another comparison chart from Tesco.

 

LCD vs Plasma TV Guide - Sound & Vision - Buying Guides - Tesco.Direct

[RandyL]

I hear that LCD is brighter in a well lit room.

 

[Dalo Harkin]

I will admit that it is a close call -

 

Plasma 25,000 : 1 Dynamic Contrast

LCD is 17,000 : 1 contrast ratio

Lower is better

 

The above is my LCD VS the nearest rival in terms of price both 42" around £620

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Blacks are more intense on plasma though which makes for the better picture.

[Seth]

Digital Home Canada - Five reasons to pick plasma over LCD

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Good post Seth, very descriptive. :)

[Dalo Harkin]

I went through this a few months ago lol :D

[steveie85]

I have several Plasma tv's in my house. I would never go back to a LCD. If you do buy a plasma or LCD for that matter, beware of the make. RCA's are junk, Toshiba, Sony, Pionner and Philips all make top of the line and are the absolute best at it. Sony has the best plasma's around. When I get my new house built, we will have only plasma TV's except for the theater which of course will be a projector. Just my humbled opinion.

 

 

Steve

[Dalo Harkin]

So why do you prefer Plasma over LCD Steveie?

[steveie85]

I find its better picture quality, esp. on HD channels. Yea LCD is better for brightly lit rooms, and plasma is better for darker rooms. I just close the blinds during the day(when I get to watch it during the day).

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Well when I can afford it I'm gonna get a house that can incorporate IMAX :p

[steveie85]

Don't give me ideas!! My wife is already calling me a moron over the theater!!

[Dalo Harkin]

I am due to put a projector in my converted loftroom for the kids WII and XBOX etc - :D

and obviously for me to watch my Stargate Atlantis and Movies :D

[RandyL]

OOH!!! A fellow Sci-Fi fan. :)

[Dalo Harkin]

Big time matey :D

[Seth]

When I was a teenager I bought a lens kit to convert a 14" tv into a projector. lol

 

Obviously the picture quality was horrible, and you could only watch it at night with all the lights off. But, seeing a 12 foot high enterprise was really cool.

[Guest Wolfeymole]

My happy days Seth was making these and reading American import horror comics.

 

Monster Model Kit Memories

[Seth]

Those are cool.

 

I've never seen them in North America though.

[Guest Wolfeymole]

I even had a model of a working guillotine, how sick is that but I loved it at the time, think I was 9 or 10.

[Dalo Harkin]

Ahhh at 8 or 9 years old I was doing those planes that are made out of plastic and you glue them together and paint.

so when I wasnt glueing my fingers together I was hanging them from my ceiling via fishing wire :D

[5teve]

Personally, I have a Mac Mini wired up to a 70" plasma TV but unless somebody wants to hook up a 70" LCD screen in the same room to a similar computer with the same RAM and OS, and then run identical programmes on both computers, how can I possibly tell which one is best? All that I CAN say is that with my screen and my computer I get image quality that looks like the dog's doo-dahs to me.