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Answer for: Flat screen TVs: Plasma or LCD?
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Plasma screens tend to have a slight lag, and thus are useless for games consoles. Also plasma use more electricity (generally) and thus are bad for the environment.
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Wow. You are so wrong.
Plasmas are better for games and anything that involves fast motion, such as fast action scenes in movies, because there is NO lag (pixel response delay), which all LCDs have. That is why LCDs have a response time rating such as "10 ms", "5 ms", etc. "ms" stands for "milliseconds" and represents the amount of time it takes for each pixel to refresh. This causes a blurring effect during fast motion scenes. Plasma pixels refresh instantly,
A good plasma will also have better contrast (the most important aspect of image quality), which means deeper, dark colors that don't look "washed out".
Burn-in (image retention) with static images used to be a problem with earlier generations of plasma screens, but the improvements in the technology have eliminated this issue. Same thing goes for longevity. A good modern plasma will last you as long as an LCD.
Good plasmas also tend to have better viewing angles.
Plasmas sometimes look shitty in stores, because the image settings haven't been properly calibrated and are set too bright and vivid, but once you adjust it, a recent Pioneer or Panasic plasma will best the image quality of any LCD.
For the record, I have a Panny plasma. It works wonderfully for high-def XBox 360 gaming.
Although I know about LCD response times, what you're saying about plasmas is pretty much contradictory to everything else I read on the Internet.
But, yeah you may be right, I dunno! :)
There are so many misconceptions and outdated info on plasma on the net, that it's not even funny. Some people even think that the "plasma" leaks out and you need to buy the "plasma refill kits" on eBay. LOL.
The technology got a bad rep early on, but it has improved greatly since. Wikipedia has a fairly decent piece on plasma.
Plasma is a FAD!!!! Sony doesn't even make Plasma televisions. If they were so good, I would think one of the largest television makers in the world would probably jump on board with the technology.
Sony may not make them NOW, but Sony changes up their product line about every six months. A search for Sony Plasma on Froogle returns ~3000 results. The first one is for Sony FWD-50PX3/S, a 50" plasma display.
Samsung, another of the world's largest TV manufacturers (and a better brand, in my opinion), also returns about 3000 results on Froogle (search: Samsung plasma).
LCD vs PDP is a moot point, though, as OLED is going to be slowly replacing both of them.
Ok...I apologize. Sony has made Plasma televisions in the past, they do not make them anymore (not for sale in the US anyway). I should have made myself more clear.
The LED LCD's look phenomenal! At 120hz the speed is also on par with a Plasma.
Plasma's USE MORE POWER THAN LCD's. It varies greatly upon what is on the screen, the brighter the picture, the more power required. Typically Plasma's come preset to "SHOP" mode which is a very high brightness level. This will typically draw from 500 to 700 Watts of power. If you have a darker room and change into "Cinema" mode, you can drop power usage down to approximately 220 to 310 watts.
The lifetime of the latest generation of plasma displays is estimated at 60,000 hours of actual display time, or 27 years at 6 hours per day. This is the estimated time over which maximum picture brightness degrades to half the original value, not catastrophic failure.
The response time of plasmas is better, but you loose true black because of it. In order to react fast enough, the cell's of the plasma televisions have to be pre-charged. By the cells being pre-charged they can not remain black, thus loosing your "true-black" you often hear spoke of. LCD's suffer from similar effects brought about differently.
We could go on and on, but I agree with you on this;
OLED is going to be king.