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SvennoJ on 06 December 2012
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binary solo said:
JoeTheBro said:
archbrix said:
And for the record, as some have mentioned, many videophiles (including myself) prefer the look of plasma TVs because of their gorgeous picture quality, superb refresh rate (without the "video taped" look that a 240hz LCD/LED can cause), and their excellent off-center viewing quality.

The downside to plasmas, like Chark said above, is that they run HOT (we are talking about a gas based technology), and don't perform as well in brightly lit environments as LEDs which emit more light.

As a videophile myself I decided against plasma due to images burning into the screen. For normal people it doesn't matter because they'd have to leave a paused movie on for days to see an effect. With us gamers however a week of nonstop Call of Duty parties would burn in the HUD. Sure higher end TVs are better protected against this but when you spend so much money you become paranoid.

I'd forgotten about burn in.

I'm about to get a new 46"-50" TV, my biggest thing is price and energy efficiency. LED/LCD seems to be coming down in price to match Plasma so I'm tending towards LED/LCD. However the edge-lit, processor speed, and number of diodes things might mean getting a LED/LCD at the same price as a Plasma makes for significantly lesser quailty. But I've also said that there's not much in it below 50" and that plasma really starts to outperform in terms of picture quality at 50"+

Looks like I need to do even more research

Maybe plasma tv's also don't stay 'fresh' as long? I have a 50" panasonic plasma that's looking pretty grey by now, black levels are a lot worse then my 1 year older LCD tv. They are older tv's though (Sharp Aquos LCD from '06, Panasonic plasma from '07)
The lcd tv however is starting to display some horizontal and vertical color banding issues, noticeable in large darker areas of the same color.

The biggest issue with the plasma tv was difference in color at the sides when switching between 4:3 and 16:9 content. Switching to 16:9 would clearly show where the black borders were for 4:3 content until they slowly fade away.

My projector is still performing the best, but that thing eats a new $350 bulb every 18 months :/

I'm waiting to see how oled turns out before upgrading, but atm I'm leaning towards backlit LED if my tv breaks.