2007-12-22 07:59:41 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
Hmmm...
Lots of misinformed and downright dumb answers here, as there always is about this particular subject.
The truth -
Both LCD and plasma televisions have a life expectancy of around 60,000 hours.
Both LCD and plasma screens suffer from burn (an ATM screen, where you can witness this effect is actually an LCD...).
A 37" LCD will use about 250 watts of electricity - a 37" plasma will use about 300 watts of electricity.
And before we get any of the truly idiot answers, plasmas AREN'T filled with water, they DON'T have oil that needs changing and they DON'T heat your room.
If you want the reality and not the B.S., check out the website below, which explains why 63% of the population prefer plasma televisions:
2007-12-22 18:40:55 · answer #1 · answered by Nightworks 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question but not much help to you in practice.
When you buy your new television set you will find that which of the two technologies you end up with has more to do with price and size than with "quality".
Under ordinary viewing conditions (i.e. outside of a laboratory and without showing specialised test cards) I doubt very much that you would notice any difference between LCD and plasma displays.
On paper an LCD display may seem "better" but, for sizes above about 37" they are excrucuatingly expensive compared with plasma screens.
The electronics built in to the better type of television (i.e. not the supermarket own brands) are designed to even out the inherent differences which each technology has. In reality that alone has more bearing on the quality of the picture than whether the screen is plasma or LCD.
Therefore the same input to each tv set should give you 99.99% the same quality picture - as seen by the naked eye (not some specialised image light-contrast meter); and on correctly set-up television sets they do indeed look the same.
Remember that modern flat panel tv's have brilliance, contrast, fine tune and other image controls just the same as "old fashioned" CRT sets and that the shop display models will not all be correctly adjusted to a standard test card. You can't always rely on the 'factory default' settings to give the best picture in your own particular viewing conditions at home.
This means that most of the so-called "contrast difference" which people talk about (if they ever actually have seen it, which I doubt in most cases) can actually be removed when you make your adjustments to the set's picture controls when you install it.
That's assuming that you can find a test card to display (I think the BBC still show one at some unearthly hour of the morning occasionally just for this very purpose).
Don't let the plasma/lcd issue worry you. Likewise, don't get hung up on 1080p or 1080i. There isn't any 1080p broadcasts so you don't need it.
When you buy your television just make sure that you have enough SCARTS for your Sky/Virgin box; DVD player; VCR and HD source. Most don't have enough, which leaves you mucking around with messy SCART combiner boxes.
Check that the instruction manual is written in English. Too many are written in some patois that has been translated from Japanese through some obscure mid-east toungue and put through a spelling-destroying machine to be finishing up in a form of Americaneese.
2007-12-24 04:31:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I recommend LCD. If the bulbs goes out on the LCD you can have it replaced. The Plasma do not have bulbs. If the plasma stops working you are out of a TV..Most ppl will differ from LCD and Plasma.
I have had a 42" LCD HGTV windscreen since July. I love it since I have the HD package that I ordered with my satellite company. Sure it beats the cable prices.
2007-12-22 08:07:13 · answer #3 · answered by Mark 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If u just watch movie or tv i suggest plasma becoz it has higher contrast and better colour than LCD. If u wan to play games i would say LCD is better.
2007-12-22 11:40:05 · answer #4 · answered by peterktd 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
LCDs use less electricity and dont get as hot as plasmas,id go for them.
2007-12-22 08:03:23 · answer #5 · answered by Alfred E. Newman 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
LCD is cheaper to repair if plasma breakdown it put in bin to dear to repair and LCD last longer .check what LCD/plasma mag.
2007-12-23 04:36:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Plasmas have a nasty reputation for dying inexplicably, and LCDs tend to have better color and contrast, in my opinion.
2007-12-22 08:07:10 · answer #7 · answered by alyosha_snow_crash 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Go LCD!!!
2007-12-22 08:09:12 · answer #8 · answered by jasvcent14 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋