42" TV - LCD or Plasma

Post by **deject** » February 19th, 2009, 16:18

Samsung LCD panels are the best of the lot in my opinion. Their black levels are almost as good as plasmas and their overall colours are far better than any plasma I've seen.

Dave Trouser · Post by **Dave Trouser** » February 19th, 2009, 20:13

mrbobbins wrote: And when watching SD telly it all looks shit so doesn't really matter what you get.

I thought that was going to be the case before I got mine. Sure, the internal freeview is fairly bad as you might expect, and most of that is due to the extra compression for over-the-air digital, but both 480 and 1080 upscaled SD from my cable box is better than I'd thought possible. Is it just Virgin Media, or is the SkyHD box ok for upscaling too? What about the higher-end Freeview/FreeSat boxes?

Also, with the latest LCDs, I don't think Plasma has a significant advantage anymore. 100Hz LCDs (Sony Bravia, Sharp Aquos etc) don't just do the crappy "show each frame twice" trick, unlike plasma. Extra interpolated frames are put in. Blacks are black too, finally.
Given the massive price difference, any minor advantage of plasma is long gone.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » February 20th, 2009, 0:01

Hmm, well on a Sky HD box the SD channels will probably look better via hdmi than via scart into your HDTV but whether it actually upscales it I'm not so sure.

Oh, and also they're really good™

But then it's all relative, 20% of people in the US owning a HDTV, but not actually receiving HD content, believe they are watching HD pictures

Dave Trouser · Post by **Dave Trouser** » February 20th, 2009, 12:57

mrbobbins wrote:Hmm, well on a Sky HD box the SD channels will probably look better via hdmi than via scart into your HDTV but whether it actually upscales it I'm not so sure.

Oh, and also they're really good™

But then it's all relative, 20% of people in the US owning a HDTV, but not actually receiving HD content, believe they are watching HD pictures

Hah, NTL/Virgin used to use Pace. I'm glad they switched to Scientific Atlanta. Now all I need them to do is enable the eSATA connection to expand the storage a bit :-)

No1Jew · Post by **No1Jew** » March 27th, 2009, 19:23

I finally Pulled my finger out and twisted Mrs Jews arm and i'm Glad I waited. I just (2mins ago) ordered this

http://www.sharp.co.uk/DH77-100Hz-HD-10 ... /lc42dh77e

However I only paid £631.38 incl. delivery.

Happy Days !!!

Post by **Dog Pants** » March 27th, 2009, 19:43

That's a big telly.

Post by **HereComesPete** » March 27th, 2009, 23:15

Yay for big TV's!

Post by **deject** » March 27th, 2009, 23:32

HereComesPete wrote:Yay for big TV's!

the WERDZ have a 52" Samsung LCD, it's glorious.

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