OMO: which new TV?

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Bibio

plasma will consume 300watt an hour

Huh?
[/unit pedant]

[NTECUK]

Wait till the sales .
Then get one you like the best .
I got my Samsung on boxing day .
Was allot cheaper.
But that was 6 ish years ago .So the market was quite different.

[hindle8907]

Plasmas for the enthusiasts who are willing to spend time using calibration tools to achieve the superior picture.

LED/LCD for normal users that just want a set that looks good out the box and gives a nice picture just make sure that it handles SD as well as it does HD as some of the lower end sets suffer from SD pixelation and motion blur.

[Viney]

Originally Posted by hindle8907

Plasmas for the enthusiasts who are willing to spend time using calibration tools to achieve the superior picture.

LED/LCD for normal users that just want a set that looks good out the box and gives a nice picture just make sure that it handles SD as well as it does HD as some of the lower end sets suffer from SD pixelation and motion blur.

How wrong can you be in one quote To get the best out of any TV/Monitor, you should never leave them on out of the box settings. This will not only not show off the best of the unit, but will also shorten the life of the kit. As a rule, run the pannel on Movie mode if your pannel has such a thing, but searching for the correct calibration settings is best.

LCD units are now far superior than they were. The Plasmas when i bought mine 5 years ago had better image processing and is still great for watching movies on. Now LCD with the inclusion of LED backlighting are better in nealy all ways. Large plasmas i think still have the edge over LCD's of similar size.


My friend who does this stuff for a living calibrated my Plasma and the differnce was amazing. I also applied the same settings to my mums LCD of the same brand, and again, its far better than the out of the box settings. I will also get him to come and calibrate my new one when i get it

Let me also be pedantic here. There is no such thing as an LED tv (Until OLED come out) Its an LCD pannel with either edge lit or back lit LED lighting.

[hindle8907]

lol don't teach your gran how to suck eggs , I own about 5 grands worth of AV equipment and its one of my main hobby's.

Yeah out the box settings are always setup for shop floors most of the time but my comment was more aimed at the people that just want to take a set home and turn on then and off they go with a half decent picture without having to mess around to much.

I was going to go in depth why I personally always go for plasma unless under 32" but i couldn't be bothered.

I've owned about 10 various flat screen panels over the last 6-7 years and have settled down now with two Panasonic plasmas
50" that's a few years old and 42" which was purchased about 3 months ago and a small 32" LCD in the bedroom.

Both plasmas have been calibrated through the engineers menus not to be confused the normal menu with contrast / brightness / colour etc etc and they both give outstanding PQ.

[NTECUK]

Tell in the bed room eh???

[tigersaw]

I doubt LPH is going to get a professional TV calibrator in, she just wants to know whats a decent telly out of the box

[Littlepeahead]

Don't get me started on calibration. New PC monitor at work, new laptop, new version of Photoshop. Aaaaggghhhh.

[hindle8907]

Originally Posted by tigersaw

I doubt LPH is going to get a professional TV calibrator in, she just wants to know whats a decent telly out of the box

Hence my original post doh !

[johnnyrod]

My final bit of advice is go to Richer Sounds and do some window shopping.