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Television - LCD or Plasma?

Wow, thank you all for the very valuable information. I know little about LCD or Plasma TV but I do know on CRT TV's (do they even make high end tube TV's anymore) in order to get a really good picture you have to worry about things like beam convergence, color temperature settings, color purity and degaussing. Are those things even applicable to flat panels?

I recently purchased a Samsung 226sw computer monitor, 2ms it says. I still feel though that when I play video on it, the picture, while clearer, is not as responsive and fluid as on the old fashioned CRT. Maybe it is just that it is computer video and not actual TV but I still have to wonder.
 
While I have two LCD monitors for my two computers, when it comes to large screen tv's, rather than buying either a plasma set or an LCD set, because of the expense, I'd just get a video card for the computer that can act as a tv card and then hook up a projector to it. In the apartment I live in, I get a decent size picture - about 5 foot diagonal with the projector I have from one side of the living room to the other, and that's just with a white wall.
 
I have a 42" Panasonic plasma that is a couple of years old, but I don't watch a ton of tv, and so the screen is still bright and new. I also don't play video games so the burn-in wasn't an issue for me, I've also heard this is not a problem with the newer plasmas. I went to the electronics store and told them what I was going to watch the most, for me thats movies, and my Tivo'd shows. They suggested a plasma screen and that's what I got. I haven't had any problems with it at all, but it is a little bit deeper than the LCDs.
 
cityboy-stl said:
Wow, thank you all for the very valuable information. I know little about LCD or Plasma TV but I do know on CRT TV's (do they even make high end tube TV's anymore) in order to get a really good picture you have to worry about things like beam convergence, color temperature settings, color purity and degaussing. Are those things even applicable to flat panels?

I recently purchased a Samsung 226sw computer monitor, 2ms it says. I still feel though that when I play video on it, the picture, while clearer, is not as responsive and fluid as on the old fashioned CRT. Maybe it is just that it is computer video and not actual TV but I still have to wonder.
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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx

i think it is more the monitor showing how poor the quality of the video is rather than the other way around
 
cityboy-stl said:
Wow, thank you all for the very valuable information. I know little about LCD or Plasma TV but I do know on CRT TV's (do they even make high end tube TV's anymore) in order to get a really good picture you have to worry about things like beam convergence, color temperature settings, color purity and degaussing. Are those things even applicable to flat panels?

I recently purchased a Samsung 226sw computer monitor, 2ms it says. I still feel though that when I play video on it, the picture, while clearer, is not as responsive and fluid as on the old fashioned CRT. Maybe it is just that it is computer video and not actual TV but I still have to wonder.
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Beam convergence and degaussing are artifacts of the electron gun used to excite the phosphors in a CRT. As such they don't have equivalents in LCD and Plasma TV so you don't need to worry about it.

Color temperature is definitely something that needs to be addressed in any technology since it affects the actual color that you perceive.

I'm not sure about color purity other than a guess that it's based upon the quality of the phosphors - however perhaps someone that knows about this can comment on it.
 
I recently purchased a Philips 42' LCD 1080p; all the Sony Bravias were sold! But I'm quite happy with it: believe it or not, I wanted a smaller screen size (as a computer monitor/tv), but the larger Philips was cheaper. In the store the Philips looked SOOO much better than the others. Only problem I've had is that the cable modem attached to the computer seems to affect one channel. Oh well, it's a tv occasionally anyway, and maybe I should have the cable company visit to fix that. . . .
 
tornZorak said:
Beam convergence and degaussing are artifacts of the electron gun used to excite the phosphors in a CRT. As such they don't have equivalents in LCD and Plasma TV so you don't need to worry about it.

Color temperature is definitely something that needs to be addressed in any technology since it affects the actual color that you perceive.

I'm not sure about color purity other than a guess that it's based upon the quality of the phosphors - however perhaps someone that knows about this can comment on it.
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Based on your answer I would guess the color purity is not something that has an LCD or Plasma equivalent either. Whereas the convergence adjusted the electron guns so that they overlapped properly, the color purity adjusted the guns so that they hit the right phosphors. That is, so that the red gun only hit the red phosphor dots and so forth. If it wasn't adjusted properly you could get blotches of screwed up color where for example the red gun was hitting the green phosphors. You'd turn off the blue and green and examine the screen to see that no blue or green dots were showing and adjust the red so that only the red dots were hit. Then do the same with the other two colors. When all was in sync you had correct color purity. Anyway if you don't have to worry about convergence, I'm sure then you don't have to worry about this. I need to get more up to date.
 
LCD consumes less power. The plasmas can be power hungry. I ordered my Samsung 46" LCD from Amazon. It was delivered in 4 days. The delivery people removed it from the box, put it on the cart, and verified that it worked. I paid $400 less than the Best Buy price, shipping was free, and there was no sales tax. I bought the model recommended by Consumer Reports.
 
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