LCD vs. Plasma vs. DLP
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I know COD4 looks amazing on Troy's Pioneer Plasma hahaha.
Plasma > Expensive LCD > Cheap LCD
You do get what you pay for in an LCD panel as well... The picture quality on my Aquos is amazing as well.
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Plasma TV's are nice in the fact that they can get the true deep blacks meant to be shown. But If not put in a dark lit room they will have a reflective glare since it has a glass front rather than a LCD has a monitor front and is a TV that can be used in many different locations. They still look amazing they just wont have those really rich blacks like a plasma does. DLP is dead technology stay away. They are big TV's that will be off the market in a matter of a year.
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a few companies, like panasonic, offer plasmas that have an anti-reflective coating that actually cuts down the glare pretty significantly
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I personally have a 42 inch plasma made by LG. I love the tv and I was in the same pickle your in with what to pick. I just went to best buy and found the one i liked the best out of the LCD or Plasma, and it was the plasma. Find one you like, thats just my .02. Good luck!!
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Im not much of a plasma fan because if you play a game for a while with a HUD or a game like rock band it will be burned into the tv for like a day or two...not really a big deal but it can be pretty annoying when your watching tv and you can read "team deathmatch" in the corner lol.
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For the glare issue, thats easy, get a tilting wall bracket, or something similar. I watch w/ the blinds open all the time and dont have glare problems, but I know some do. If you have a GOOD plasma, your room doesn't need to be dark either.
And on the video game subject, I personally haven't seen that yet. My tv has had HOURS upon HOURS for weeks in a row, with COD4 played on it and not one issue of burn in.
In the end it comes down to personal opinion and budget. Go shop around, and look at all that you can, and get what YOU like. Keep in mind that some places have a very good HD feed to all their TVs and some dont. Oh and DON'T buy expensive HDMI cables either!
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I don't like paying big coin for TVs so I started using a front projection setup a few years ago. My first deal was an Infocus X1 DLP projector running 800x600. For $800 I had a 72" diagonal screen, with single-addressible pixels (connected via VGA to my theater-PC).
Eventually I wanted higher resolution and a quieter unit. The DLP color wheel and cooling fan for the projection bulb were quite noisy. I replaced the X1 with the BenQ W500 720p 3-LCD projector. That one is 720p native, and doesn't have a color wheel, so it's higher resolution and quiter. It also has an HDMI jack on it so I can roll digital all the way to the screen.
Interestingly enough, the W500 must have a more aggressive projection ratio than the X1 since my old screen is no longer big enough. I'm moving into a different house and so I'll be building a different screen anyway.
You cannot touch the screen size / dollar ratio of a front projection setup. The only drawback is you need a dark room. Our TV room is in our basement so controlling the light is no problem. I don't have normal tv/cable subscription; we only use it for DVDs, Xbox, and torrented anime, all of which look great. A fair bit of the stuff I watch is now 720p so there doesn't need to be any pixel resampling.
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^Maybe it was just an old plasma tv that I was using...But as thrash said, projection FTW. We have a panosonic (not sure of model off hand) 1080p projector and it is the greatest thing, its really crisp. But you do need a somewhat dark room and if someone turns on the lights it is hard to see, and if you couldnt mount it too a ceiling it would suck.
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+2 on projection. I have a panasonic PT-AE1000U w/ an elite screens 92" in my basement and have never been happier with my decision...of course, with my screen down, I can make my basement pitch black as it covers the only window in that room.
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revolutionz_s13;216928 wrote:
DLP and LCD projection are actually two different kinds of projection...and there is a third kinda also called LCOS(liquid crystal on silicone).all DLP tv's use a color wheel, spinning at ~1200rpm. these can go bad(samsung is known for their colorwheels going out after 2-3 years). yes, there is the rainbow effect, but they have a very fast response time, almost no motion blurring.
LCD projection is like a lightbulb shining through small lcd panel. on these you get what is called the "screendoor effect". you see the lines between the pixels.
LCOS is kind of like a combination of lcd and dlp technologies, and is by far the best rear projection technology out. the sony sxrd's( arguably one of the best rear pj's ever made) uses lcos.
i meant LED projection (uses LED's instead of a color wheel so no rainbow effect).... not LCD... late night post... my bad -
[QUOTE=treimche;217036]For the glare issue, thats easy, get a tilting wall bracket, or something similar. I watch w/ the blinds open all the time and dont have glare problems, but I know some do. If you have a GOOD plasma, your room doesn't need to be dark either.
And on the video game subject, I personally haven't seen that yet. My tv has had HOURS upon HOURS for weeks in a row, with COD4 played on it and not one issue of burn in.
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glare off of an open window is my only problem(but my tv faces the 9ft x 5ft window) so make sure you look into that if you feel it may affect you
also, i had a projection tv FIRST and HATED it. dont settle on one. walk into the store, find the one you think looks the nicest, and buy that one. Dont waste money on two or three 1k dollar tvs before you finally find the bulls to buy the one you REALLY want/ lesson learned.
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I like my 42" Olevia LCD....1080p and was less than $1k...however, hands down the best picture i've ever seen has come from a Samsung LCD. The 40" model of it was almost $3k a few months ago though so its pretty spendy...For the money, I couldn't go wrong...I got a three year warranty with it as well.
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I have a Toshiba DLP and love it. The black is about as true as it comes, in comparison to some LCD and Plasma and picture quality is amazing. Also you generally get more TV for the dollar.
Takes up more room, can't mount it on a wall, bulbs replacements every few years, and a phased out technology....
All in all I would purchase another DLP in a heartbeat.
The best thing to do is figure out what you have room for, from screen size to physical size...view models in your budget and purcahse accordingly.
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