Television sets, what to get

[jimmyj]

We need to buy a new TV and I know bupkuss about them. LCD, Plasma, LED, what the heck is the difference?

I read some online reviews and stuff and I gather that Plasma is the best with LCD next and LED last. That said, I don't want to get plasma because apparently they burn in. Or, is it all blah blah blah.

Any advice from the TBN members?

 

[/pine]

it depends on your budget...

on the low end it is hard to beat the Visio's...great sets for minimal dollars

on the upper end the new LED screens have the best picture far and away...

 

[catfishdaddyengineering]

I don't know where you read that plasma is first and LED is last, but that is backwards. Plasma will burn the image to the screen, and it uses beaucoup energy even when it is turned off. LED in my opinion is the clearest, and it also uses the least energy. The only thing with LED for now is the price. They cost the most now, but in six months the price will drop in half.

 

[brin]

I don't know where you read that plasma is first and LED is last, but that is backwards. Plasma will burn the image to the screen, and it uses beaucoup energy even when it is turned off. LED in my opinion is the clearest, and it also uses the least energy. The only thing with LED for now is the price. They cost the most now, but in six months the price will drop in half.

We have had a plasma tv for 5 yrs. now ..it has been great...no burned image on the screen...in fact we bought the extended warranty and never needed it. It has sat on our mantle above the fireplace for all 5 yrs..When Plasmas first came out they did not know much aobut them and there were a lot of what has turned out to be myths about them..Our experience has been great ....:thumbsup:

 

[jinjimbob]

Panasonic and Pioneer plasma tvs are the best around.

LCDs tvs are slightly cheaper for a reason.

LED is the new buzz word in tvs, where in fact an LED TV is in fact a LCD tv that uses LEDs for back lighting, or in worse cases, side lighting.

A plasma tv is back lit by 2073600 lights. (its individual pixel)

You'd be lucky to get a LCD tv that is backlit for more than a few dozen lights.

LCD (LED and other types) suffer from banding, they all do.

Plasma tvs do not burn in any more than any other kind of tv.

The latest plasma tvs use the same or less energy than LCDs. Look for the EnergyStar rating, it will tell you what they use.

Just trying to clear up misinformation here.

 

[Bird]

I don't know anything about TVs either, but in April, 2008, we bought a 40" Samsung LCD HDTV for the living room and a 22" Insignia (Best Buy's house brand) LCD HDTV for the bedroom. The bedroom TV is only used occasionally and usually for short periods of time; never over 2 hours. The living room TV is turned on and left on from the time my wife gets out of bed in the morning until she goes back to bed at night, whether anyone is in the living room or even in the house. The Samsung got very very slow about warming up and coming on, so we had a service man out who replaced two capacitors and fixed it in February of this year. This is one time I had bought the extended warranty and at least broke even since that one service call and repair would have cost almost exactly what I paid for the in home extended warranty. So far, we're happy with these.

 

[brin]

Panasonic and Pioneer plasma tvs are the best around.

LCDs tvs are slightly cheaper for a reason.

LED is the new buzz word in tvs, where in fact an LED TV is in fact a LCD tv that uses LEDs for back lighting, or in worse cases, side lighting.

A plasma tv is back lit by 2073600 lights. (its individual pixel)

You'd be lucky to get a LCD tv that is backlit for more than a few dozen lights.

LCD (LED and other types) suffer from banding, they all do.

Plasma tvs do not burn in any more than any other kind of tv.

The latest plasma tvs use the same or less energy than LCDs. Look for the EnergyStar rating, it will tell you what they use.

Just trying to clear up misinformation here.

Our Plasma TV is a Panasonic...so that may be one reason we have had no problems based on what you posted...I sure could have saved by not buying the extended warranty... The Plasmas are thinner than the others and that is what we wanted.

 

[rekees4300]

Any advice from the TBN members?

Sony is the John Deere of TVs. :thumbsup:

 

[Transit]

I don't know anything about TVs either, but in April, 2008, we bought a 40" Samsung LCD HDTV for the living room and a 22" Insignia (Best Buy's house brand) LCD HDTV for the bedroom. The bedroom TV is only used occasionally and usually for short periods of time; never over 2 hours. The living room TV is turned on and left on from the time my wife gets out of bed in the morning until she goes back to bed at night, whether anyone is in the living room or even in the house. The Samsung got very very slow about warming up and coming on, so we had a service man out who replaced two capacitors and fixed it in February of this year. This is one time I had bought the extended warranty and at least broke even since that one service call and repair would have cost almost exactly what I paid for the in home extended warranty. So far, we're happy with these.

Now i know why there is an energy shortage. Hummm.....on second though, maybe it keeps the little woman out of the mall spending $$$$.:laughing::laughing:

 

[jinman]

We have this Samsung and love it. I don't have it attached to my broadband internet yet, but I'll probably do that this year. I've plugged my thumb drive USB chip into the USB port and viewed pictures full-screen. It's pretty darn awesome. I love the crisp presentation and watching Blu-ray movies on this set.