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Plasma or LED for gaming?

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iindigo:
What panels do LCD TVs typically use? TN panels? Not that it'd make much difference in this instance, just trying to see if today's LCD displays are roughly equivalent to LCD TVs.

AceHigh:
I see where you might be going with the TN panels, iindigo, but remember that for gaming purposes a higher response time is of the issue, not the extra colour quality.

NaRu:
it depends on your budget. If you have enough money for a high end Plasma ($3000 or more) then Plasma would be better but if you want to spend like $1500 LCD LED TV would be better. A cheap plasma isn't good at all

sdedalus83:

--- Quote from: iindigo on April 20, 2010, 09:02:09 AM ---What panels do LCD TVs typically use? TN panels? Not that it'd make much difference in this instance, just trying to see if today's LCD displays are roughly equivalent to LCD TVs.



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Most decent or better TVs (as in LG, Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Hitachi) use IPS or S-PVA panels.  Viewing angles and black levels are much more important for TVs than for computer monitors.

GoGeTa006:
my 2 cents:

Plasmas have a greater image quality overall (refresh rate and color gamma) they are cheaper (way cheaper) to buy than LCD's but if they break, you might as well buy a new one (really expensive to fix)

LCD's are energy efficient, they have a nice picture quality. . .newest TV's (which are xpensive) go with 240 hz (plasmas claim to have 600. . .not true tho but still faster response than LCD's)

If you have a small room plasma's work great on winter since they work as a TV/Heater combo.
LED's . . .well I wont talk bad about them but at least the samsung ones. . .they look pretty good, id recommend them for gaming (since its virtual imaging) but for watching movies/pictures/HD Id totally go with the Sony LED . . .it looks AMAZING compared to the samsung (in dark scenes) although its not as slim

Samsung looks more vivid, a lot more colorfull but once you get to a really dark scene, or say dark details (say for example texture on a businessman's suit) you wont see more than pitch black, while sony retains all the details. . .its like using shadow/highlight (from photoshop) on every scene. . .


So yeah. . .things that are MUST

LCD: 120 Hz at least and 1080p
Plasma: 1080p only

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