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LED vs. Plasma vs. LCD
GoGeTa006:
I work at sears :P
i recently went to this conference that samsung/panasonic/sharp/lg/sony were trowing. . .
what i learned:
-LGs have "invisible speakers" . . .they use the entire screen as a speaker with magnets.
-LGs are cheap cause they are made entirely by LG.
-Sharp thinks they're cool with they're overkill of color satuartion.
-Sharp's quality tests are pretty nice
-Sony didnt really say shit except "were sony. . .nuff said"
-Panasonic. . .well. . .I seriously cant think how fucked up the guy was. .. sayig "look at this plasma on a dark seen it uses less electricity than a regular LCD" (well yeah fuckhead! all the pixels are off)
-good thing bout panasionic --> they gave me a free 2gb sd card.
-Samsung. . .well they just introduced all theyre B seires (b600-8000) with LED edgelit. and theyr new camera with a front LCD display
good things bout LEDs:
-low power consumption (only sony's VE series can beat it. . .i believe)
-edgelits are pretty thin and light.
-they look amazing ,. . .incredible whites and blacks. . .altough as someone mentions theres like this gradient that forms between really bright/dark colors.
-hard to notice but as you get close to the center you have less light (cause its edgelit)
-they're the newest thing out there. . .customers just want to buy them cause of that.
plamas:
-greater image, they have pure black since they can actually shut down a pixel locally.
-bad thing?. . .they have crystal screen which means GLARE!
-customers are still thinking bout burnt ins and ghosting and lifetime. Plasmas have a higher lifetime now. many have "shifting pixels" which basically eliminiates burning and ghosting.
-more electrity. . .yeah thats true.
-600 mhz ?? thats kind of not true. . .that number is just an exageration (LG told us that),. . .he said its a fake number used for selling. Its actually equivalent to 120hz. . .prolly inbetween 120 and 240. . .the thing is that since its a plasma there are like layers or something. . .so
this is wrong but take it as an example:
10 layers @ 60hz = 600 hz
-ill have to recomend the best plasma ive seen is the Samsung 8 series. amazingly thin (like the LEDs). . .amazing graphics.
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comparing samsung to sony (i considre them the besT) .. .
-samsung has a better color gama
-sony has more greyish colors, tho if you're looking at people close ups, like interviews and such. . .the sony looks a lot more real while the samsung looks too pinkish.
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--- Quote from: morrefule on October 12, 2009, 11:52:13 PM ---
FYI ~ if you get a TV 37" or over, don't even think about traveling with it laid down, unless it is an LED edgelit, because You can SHIFT a pannel in an LCD and you will break the glass in a Plasma. I have seen this happen way too many times before.
Edit ~ fixed typo
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as far as i know LCDs arent that fragile when it comes to laying them down. . .you can actually transport them in your trunk just there. . .
plasmas (since they use small gas tanks) when they are laid down the gas spills out and you have a ruined plasma tv that cannot be returned to your nearest sears store.
morrefule:
--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on October 13, 2009, 07:35:27 PM ---
--- Quote from: morrefule on October 12, 2009, 11:52:13 PM ---
FYI ~ if you get a TV 37" or over, don't even think about traveling with it laid down, unless it is an LED edgelit, because You can SHIFT a pannel in an LCD and you will break the glass in a Plasma. I have seen this happen way too many times before.
Edit ~ fixed typo
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as far as i know LCDs arent that fragile when it comes to laying them down. . .you can actually transport them in your trunk just there. . .
plasmas (since they use small gas tanks) when they are laid down the gas spills out and you have a ruined plasma tv that cannot be returned to your nearest sears store.
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Pretty much spot on with everything you said, and I agree. I will fight with you a bit on the laying of Large LCD's down flat though. Granted they are very well built and hard to bust, but laying it down for transportation in a vehical can cause pannel shift. This is where the actual LCD shifts on angle causing the image to be lopsided or bleed into the side of the screen. I have seen it happen on numerous occations. Normally with larger LCD's 46" and bigger, but I have seen it once on 37" LCD's. I do see a lot of Samsungs, but that's because they have the largest market share of the LCD market by far.
P.S. - don't you love the Sony Reps, and I talk about Fanboys. :) LOL
fohfoh:
In all honesty, the mid-range overlaps constantly between brands. Model X from company Y might be just as great as Model Y from company Z. However, the difference lies in the fact model X was built 2 years ago and now down priced, and model Y was built last year.
Sony isn't bad, but most time, their affordable TVs are usually something that was built several years ago to be higher end, and now the price is down because it only qualifies as mid class and people want to get rid of it. It's not the model is bad, but you're comparing a tv that was built 2-3 years ago with the specs of one built last year. (Same specs) guess what, the newer one is going to do a hell of a lot better than the old one. (It's going to be slightly cheaper too)
Regarding transportation... don't lay the fucking thing flat. There's so many more chances of you dropping something on it, or having something underneath that puts pressure on your screen that fucks it up ON TOP of the fact that it's not good for the components.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on October 13, 2009, 09:19:45 PM ---In all honesty, the mid-range overlaps constantly between brands. Model X from company Y might be just as great as Model Y from company Z. However, the difference lies in the fact model X was built 2 years ago and now down priced, and model Y was built last year.
Sony isn't bad, but most time, their affordable TVs are usually something that was built several years ago to be higher end, and now the price is down because it only qualifies as mid class and people want to get rid of it. It's not the model is bad, but you're comparing a tv that was built 2-3 years ago with the specs of one built last year. (Same specs) guess what, the newer one is going to do a hell of a lot better than the old one. (It's going to be slightly cheaper too)
Regarding transportation... don't lay the fucking thing flat. There's so many more chances of you dropping something on it, or having something underneath that puts pressure on your screen that fucks it up ON TOP of the fact that it's not good for the components.
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Next year Sony's releasing a new Bravia that will have new features, and will have features that will only work with the PS3. PS3 is getting 3D technology around fall of 2010. So I'm debuting to wait till next year or purchase one in the upcoming months (holidays).
Viseroid:
Reasonably priced LCD (~1300 USD) have contrast ratios that usually top off at 5000:1 (dynamic contrast is another story). A similarly priced plasma has a contrast ratio of 40000:1. However, there is the issue of the half life of plasma screens and etc. If you want a screen that is going to undergo extremely heavy use I'd get a LCD. However, you have no idea how beautiful deep black looks. Plasma is the one for me :).
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