thetonestarr said:
Plasma = outdated technology that all manufacturers have been working to leave behind for quite some time now. Ever since LCD TVs came out, plasmas have been on the out.
And now we've got LED and OLED TVs slowly replacing LCDs. |
You have a few inaccuracies here.
1. Plasma > LCD (picture quality). Only reason LCD dominated is due to its ability to reduce costs quicker and thus the market chose the lower priced system that has close enough capabilites. Plasma images are far better when comparing similar quality products.
2. LED *is* an LCD display. Only difference is the source of the light. Typical LCD tvs use a couple tube lights, whereas LED tvs use LEDs.
Extra info:
Main reason Plasma are better than LCD is that a Plasma can create true blacks and therefore have far better color representations. They can do this because they can control individal pixels light sources whereas the tubes in LCDs can't turn off completely. So black in a LCD is actually a grey.
There are two types of LED tvs. The really thin TVs have the LEDs installed on the side of the LCD screen and work *exactly* like regular LCDs. Absolutely no difference in quality when everything else is the same. The other LEDs that are the same thickness as regular LCDs have the LEDs behind the screen. This allows them to work similar to Plasmas and actually turn off individual pixels resulting in real black and far better colors overall. This is where LCD tvs finally become superior to Plasmas because they can match their visual quality while being far more efficient.
3. OLED (Organic LED) tv is a completely different type of tv that will take a few more years to become cost efficient enough to produce at large scales. Sony was producing an 11" OLED for over $2000. However, these will be amazing in not only quality, but efficiency and size.
