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Originally Posted by facialfreak
BV ...
I'm not looking to piss with you brother ... not at all
It's just that your info on plasma's is very circa 2005 ...
3rd-gen plasma screens do NOT have burn-in issues (unless maybe you leave the screen on the same image for like a year maybe), and with 15000:1 contrast ratios, you cannot tell me they don't rival (or blow away) the best LCDs. In the past plasma screens fell short on maximum resolution, but now 1080i is pretty much the standard that all new plasma flat panels are displaying natively.
Plasma displays have ALWAYS had a better black reproduction than LCDs too!
If you put a Plasma side-by-side with an LCD viewing a movie with alot of warm, brilliant colors in it, the Plasma is going to kick some LCD ass, sorry to say ...
If you had said the exact same things in 2005, I would have agreed with you whole-heartedly man, but Samsung and Matsushita (Panasonic) had invested far too much into plasma to let it be upstaged ...
In late 2005, both companies (along with PIONEER) pooled their resources to further develop plasma, and now plasma holds it's own against LCD very well!  |
No worries man it's all good.
I'm actually agreeing with you that plasmas picture quality is way better and that LCD is still trying to catch up to plasmas on picture quality.
That was an interesting article you posted above on what the plasma companies are doing to combat burn in. (moving the picture ever so slightly)
I watch the MOJO HD channel a lot and I noticed that they move their logo around frequently. Sometimes it's at the top sometimes it's at the bottom. I wonder if they do that to help prevent burn in as well?
I just recently bought a LCD and I really wanted to get the plasma because of the picture quality looked so much better. Sam's Club probably had 30 plasmas and 30 LCDS on display for me to choose from. The guy talked me out of the plasma because he showed me on some of their display models of the plasmas they already had some burn in and some already had areas burnt out!
So that combined with the heat output when I placed my hand behind the Plasma I ended up getting a LCD. A 46" by Westinghouse for around 1400 bucks. I set out to get a 42" Visio 900 bucks but it looked smaller than i expected. These are definitely not top of the line but this is my first HDTV.
The SONY LCDS they had looked awesome but they were like 3500 bucks!
I watched Planet Earth last night on Discovery HD channel and it was awesome compared to my old 36" Toshiba Black Tube I used to have.
I'll probably get another better one in 2009 when there will be a lot more channels pumping out 1080 instead of just 720.
Cheers,
BV