LCD or Plasma?
 

37" 1300 res LCD or 42" 1024 res Plasma.... which one is better ??

LCD
plasma is dead

Everyone says LCD is better, there are many reason for that, I don´t remember anyone. :)

I have Lcd as TV and Plasma on laptop.
From what i know, most of people prefere Lcd instead of Plasma. I like my Lcd tv.:)
Elly Jaine

Go for a 50" plasma with a resolution of 1366x768. It's also perfect to connect a PC to it with a media center software.

you cant tell the difference...

which notebooks have plasma screens?

err plasma on a laptop?

i have 2 LCD tvs and 2 Plasma Tvs . the Plasma Tv has better color.

Plasma have been proven to deterioriorate their quality in a short time... So i guess LCD

According to Synovate research participants: (UK, France and Germany)

65% favour Plasma over LCD for best Colour Quality

61% say Plasma delivers the best Sharpness Quality

62% indicate that Plasma has the best Response Time

72% deem Plasma to have the best Black Quality performance

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facts and myths:

Response time (Motion)

Myth
Flat TVs have trouble retaining resolution when displaying fast moving images.

Fact
Plasma TVs can present moving objects without loss of crispness or detail.Plasma technology needs only one impulse per pixel to produce an image therefore its response time is almost instantaneous.

LCD technology requires pixels to go from active ? to inactive -and back to active again, to achieve a single response cycle; their response time can measure anywhere between 4 milliseconds to and 25 milliseconds. Even the fastest LCD screens can suffer with some degree of movement blurring.


Viewing angle

Myth
Flat TVs have poor viewing angles, meaning pictures lose much of their quality unless you?re sat directly in front of the screen.

Fact
Plasma TVs can actually be watched from very wide viewing angles without any significant loss in colour or contrast, thanks to the fact that they emit light directly from each of their screen cells or pixels.

However, LCD pixels merely ?pass on? a light originating from a single point behind them, therefore LCD screens can lose contrast and colour if watched from angles as small as 45 degrees.


Screen burn

Myth
Plasma TVs are seriously prone to burn in.

Fact
In the early days, plasma TVs were susceptible to screen burn. However, this issue has been largely eliminated thanks to greater use of built-in screen-saving systems and major phosphors improvements.

Example
You can now play computer games or watch logo-heavy channels (e.g. CNN) on a plasma TV without worrying about various static image elements being on the screen for a long period of time.


Energy use

Myth
Plasma TVs use more power than their LCD rivals.

Fact
The reality is that plasma TVs don?t necessarily use any more power than LCDs ? a fact which makes perfect sense if you think about how each technology works.

Plasma TVs, for instance, require just a single ignition of a plasma cell to cause a pixel to illuminate. Since darkness is achieved in plasma pixels by stopping electrical current getting into them, it follows that plasma TVs need relatively little power to reproduce dark scenes.

LCDs by comparison run at a constant power regardless of whether a scene is dark or light, due to their use of an always-on backlight.

Results from an independent research conducted by the AVT.O.P. Messetechnik laboratory in Germany, showed that plasmas tend to use the same ? and sometimes less ? amounts of power than LCD screens.


Lifespan

Myth
Plasma screens have a shorter lifespan than LCD screens.

Fact
Plasma TVs actually have a lifespan that?s at least equal to that of LCD TVs. TVs using either technology will provide at least 60,000 hours of life under normal viewing conditions before they lose more than half their original brightness. This translates to 27 years of continuous viewing for six hours a day.

Plasma screens can actually be made to last even longer depending on the picture settings you use. For instance, keeping the contrast low could potentially extend a plasma screen?s life.


End to end production

Myth
Plasma and LCD TVs alike are built using bits and pieces sourced from a variety of different manufacturers.

Fact
Generally, Plasma TVs tend to be developed and built completely ?in-house?.

In the early days of plasma TV, most manufacturers tended to develop their own plasma research and technology, leading to a situation where many companies now have plasma production as an integrated business model. This means that from the panels to processing, plasma screens are generally made entirely within each particular company, giving them total control over the quality of their products.

LCD TVs, on the other hand, are generally built by using a variety of third-party components, with all the quality assurance issues that entails. And even more confusingly, LCD TVs are traditionally ?OEM?d? ?some companies buy them from another manufacturer and simply put their own brand logo on them. So with LCD, the name on the front of the TV screen you buy may not necessarily be the name of the company that built the main part of the product.

Plasma TV vs. LCD

This is a complicated topic: when choosing between LCD and plasma TVs, you're actually selecting between two competing technologies, both of which achieve similar features (i.e., bright, crystal-clear images, super color-filled pictures) and come in similar packages (i.e., 3.5 inch depth flat screen casing). To complicate the decision-making process further, price and size are two previous considerations that are rapidly becoming non-issues as LCDs are now being made in larger sizes and at competing prices with plasma TVs.

Despite all these similarities, these technologies differ in how they process and display incoming video/computer signals.

Plasma flat screen technology consists hundreds of thousands of individual pixel cells, which allow electric pulses (stemming from electrodes) to excite rare natural gases-usually xenon and neon-causing them to glow and produce light. This light illuminates the proper balance of red, green, or blue phosphors contained in each cell to display the proper color sequence from the light. Each pixel cell is essentially an individual microscopic florescent light bulb, receiving instruction from software contained on the rear electrostatic silicon board. Look very closely at a plasma TV and you can actually see the individual pixel cell coloration of red, green, and blue bars. You can also see the black ribs which separate each.

Whether spread across a flat-panel screen or placed in the heart of a projector, all LCD displays come from the same technological background. A matrix of thin-film transistors (TFTs) supplies voltage to liquid-crystal-filled cells sandwiched between two sheets of glass. When hit with an electrical charge, the crystals untwist to an exact degree to filter white light generated by a lamp behind the screen (for flat-panel TVs) or one projecting through a small LCD chip (for projection TVs). LCD monitors reproduce colors through a process of subtraction: They block out particular color wavelengths from the spectrum of white light until they're left with just the right color. And, it's the intensity of light permitted to pass through this liquid-crystal matrix that enables LCD televisions to display images chock-full of colors-or gradations of them.

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Jensen rocked! Thanks, man, from what I've seen myself I liked plasma better, considering lifespan, damn, they make better shit each year, lets not pretend we dont want a new laptop or tv that soon :)

I'm an LCD man myself :)

LCD or die. :thumbsup

Just my 2 :2 cents: here but to my understanding, Plasma puts out about as much or more radiation than a regular tube TV, LCDs put out very little if any.

go for the LCD ...:)

Been looking at both myself.

My new plasma (made in dec 2006) is beautiful. Way better quality, very impressive.

Also about radiation I found this:

Misconception #7: Plasma TVs give off a lot of radiation.
This rumor just might be the most outlandish of the bunch, especially considering the fact that the monitor you're reading this on -- assuming it is a CRT -- gives off considerably more radiation than a plasma display ever could. While plasma monitors do generate a tiny amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, it is essentially negligible because this radiation extends no more than an inch outward from the screen. Because individual pixels are illuminated, the radiation is "contained" to the pixels themselves. This is not the case with tube-based TVs, which utilize an electron gun that shoots radiated light toward the screen in order to illuminate phosphors thereon. This projects small amounts of radiation sometimes more than 12" outward from the screen. Not to worry: Both plasmas and CRTs comply with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines for TV radiation emissions, which have been in place since 1969.

They both suck compared to OLED, wait for it, or get something you don't mind tossing in the garbage in two years so you can replace it with something 1000% better.

it's $1300 here for 42" Plasma... thats not cheap US market..

SED for the win, my friends.

Toshiba and Canon project scheduled to launch in Q1 of 2008 - save your money :)

http://gear.ign.com/articles/679/679235p1.html

Why don't you just use the search function...they're prolly 10 different threads like this with the exact same thing

Go with a microdisplay rear projection.

LCD's with LED backlighting are equal, if not better, than their plasma equivalents. There is no purpose to get plasma anymore -- within a year SED TV's will be out and Plasma will be rather outdated.

LCD Hi Def 1920x1080.

Plasmas cant compete and I have seen so many plasmas go off-color after only 3 years or so.

The new plasmas don't have as many issues as the older models. Screen burn is one of the bigger issues related to having a plasma, however most of the newer TVs have a white wash to correct this issue. I recently picked up a 42" plasma, and it's been great so far. One of my main reasons for choosing plasma over LCD was that the LCD screens are soft, and during a move, I could see how it could easily get torn or cut against something. The plasma has a hard cover.

Just some thoughts.

you cant tell the diff just get a high res plasma they are coming off in price and they come in bigger sizes

We just got a 42" LCD and the HD channels are out of control on it! I love it.

LCD no doubt

my voice's for LCD too

Have you looked at them yourself? What did you think?

I used to sell Plasma and LCD TVs years ago, but back then finding an LCD bigger than 30" was rare, so it was more of a size thing. First hand I saw a couple more problems with plasma.. but I think it was mainly because cheap plasmas had just started coming out.. the LCDs we sold were more quality brands. We never had any issues with Pioneer/Sony/Philips plasma TVs.

I ended up buying an LCD rear-projection (Sony Grand Wega.)

I have a 37" LCD and I love it.

i was watchin football on my boys lcd and noticed whats called "ghosting"

never seen anything like that on my plasma

i love my plasma honestly

I have a DLP myself but I would go with the LCD.

Plasma has my vote the that exact reason... ghosting...

Drives me nuts on LCD monitors as well.

I get Ghosting on both my 32" LCDs but not on either of my 42" Plasmas .. that's the biggest difference i notice between the 2 ..and the Plasma's do have a richer color .

Plasma all the way!

Looks like a winner ... you buy something now (with a long lifespan) just to fnd out that it may become obsolete in months ... :upsidedow

Plasma is the good stuff great colour and resolution but with the LCD hmm i like mutch becouse i like to work with them..

1080p Lcd Ftw

in the old days LCD where bad now there better than plasma

LCD...
i am waiting for laser desplays to come...

lies lies lies! newer plasmas look far better:)

LCD... why?

lighter... better technology
last longer