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disolitude on 02 March 2011
d21lewis said:

After a lot of research, I was torn between LED TV's from LG and Vizio (yes, Vizio).  I went with the Vizio because of the bonus features but I can't help but wonder what that LG would look like in my house.  If possible, don't settle for less than 120 Hertz but try to go for 240.  LED's look good but when you discover that the LED was turned off (or some power saving mode was turned on) and you turn the lighting on, you will jizz in your pants.

My advice, go to Best Buy or something, look at all of the TV's side by side, and listen to what the clerks say.  From my experience, those guys REALLY know what they're talking about.  Or you could just listen to disolitude.  He tends to have good info on such things.

Thanks bud!  Vizio makes great TVs for an excellent price so I'm sure you made the best choice.

LED's are the way to go right now if you want the best all around TV. Plasmas are better for some things, but LEDs excel at everything.

But people should be smart. If an LCD model is on sale at 700 bucks and similar LED model is 1200 dollars, I'd sacrifice a little contrast and brightness for the extra 500 bucks in my pocket :)



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disolitude on 02 March 2011
d21lewis said:

For the record, Plasma probably always looks better than LCD's, even LED LCD's but I have a mental phobia about their reliability. 


For the record on your post above, that 600 hz is just trickery which plasmas use to sound more badass than LCD/LEDs. Its not an actual 600 hz refresh rate.

None of these current TVs work at more than 60 hz when it comes to accepting the signal.Try plugging a computer in to a 240 hz tv and set the refresh rate to 120 hz, and watch the TV stutter like its got terrets...it cant do it.

All of them just accept 60 hz and then use trickery to make 60 hz signal look more smooth to the viewer. So 60 hz really isn't that bad as its the most true picture to the original source. With some of these 120/240 hz TV engines, you can have a bluray movie look like a home video...

Once true 120 hz TVs come out which allow for 120 hz input (projectors and monitors already exist) and TV channels start broadcasting in 120 hz...then we can forget 60 hz ever existed.



SnesTea on 02 March 2011

Doesn't really matte how big it is just make sure it has at least two of the following inputs:

composite

component

hdmi

and at least 1 of these inputs:

s-video

vga



mantlepiecek on 02 March 2011

So what's the difference between plasma and lcd? When it comes to picture quality, etc?

When playing MGS 4 it does warn about some plasma tvs that can get affected by image-burning or something...does anyone know anything about it lol.



Faxanadu on 02 March 2011

Thanks guys, great advice.

I will probably scrap 3D in favour of LED, but then there are 3D LED TVs that are only 100 Euro or so more expensive than the same in 2D only...and that is already the price of the shutter glasses.

I realized though that as some have said it doesnt really matter, as all of them will be an significant improvement over my small SD LCD TV that I currentl use...



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Galaki on 02 March 2011

LED is supposedly much thinner and lighter than LCD version which makes it all the more easier to wall mount.



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disolitude on 02 March 2011
mantlepiecek said:

So what's the difference between plasma and lcd? When it comes to picture quality, etc?

When playing MGS 4 it does warn about some plasma tvs that can get affected by image-burning or something...does anyone know anything about it lol.

Essentially there is no difference between plasma and LCD when it comes to playing MGS4. Both technologies will display it wonderfully...

When it comes to the bottom line though, both tech have some advantages over the other at same price range.

Plasmas have deeper blacks, better contrast ratio, better viewing angle, faster response time...

LCDs have...errr...let me get back to you on that one.