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I'm looking to upgrade my HDTV (I have a 32" 120hz LCD that I'm mostly very pleased with). I want to move up to at least a 40" or 42", and I'm starting to wonder if plasma may be the way to go.
One of my biggest peeves with the LCD is motion blur. The 120hz is much improved over the 60hz I had for twenty-four hours before I returned it and swapped it for my current TV - if I could find a 240hz, I'd probably happily go with that, but I understand that plasma TVs don't have the motion-blur problem at all.
The thing is, I don't want the lighting of my gaming room to have an effect on viewing experience. I want it to be fine with the lights on, fine at dusk, and perfect at night when the lights are off. I've heard that plasma TVs don't look nearly as good when you take them home and turn the lights off - but every time I walk through Best Buy and find myself stopped in my tracks because of an amazing picture on a TV, I'm sure I'm looking at a plasma set - I think a plasma TV is what I want.
Have plasma TVs gotten to the point where ambient lighting is a non-issue? Thanks for any help!
One of my biggest peeves with the LCD is motion blur. The 120hz is much improved over the 60hz I had for twenty-four hours before I returned it and swapped it for my current TV - if I could find a 240hz, I'd probably happily go with that, but I understand that plasma TVs don't have the motion-blur problem at all.
The thing is, I don't want the lighting of my gaming room to have an effect on viewing experience. I want it to be fine with the lights on, fine at dusk, and perfect at night when the lights are off. I've heard that plasma TVs don't look nearly as good when you take them home and turn the lights off - but every time I walk through Best Buy and find myself stopped in my tracks because of an amazing picture on a TV, I'm sure I'm looking at a plasma set - I think a plasma TV is what I want.
Have plasma TVs gotten to the point where ambient lighting is a non-issue? Thanks for any help!
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Most hifi nerds will tell you the same thing - LCD has some other advantages in some areas, but IMO picture quality isn't one of them.
I always watch movies or game with my lights off and the room basically blacked out because it looks way better. The sets you see in stores just have the brightness and contrast cranked up insanely high BECAUSE it's so bright in the store.
My oldest plasma set is a 42" Panasonic from 2005. My newest is an LG 60" that I bought this year. Neither one has any image burn, at all, and I fall asleep with video games or Netflix on my Xbox running nearly every night because I am an idiot.
If I leave a game paused for an hour and come back and turn the game off so the TV is at a black screen, you'll see the faint outlines of an image burn, but it is very short lived. Turn the TV off for 20 minutes and then back on and it isn't there anymore.
I don't know enough to tell you the technical reasons for why image burn doesn't actually happen anymore but as I said, I am the worst person ever at preventing that and I haven't had a single issue on two TVs, one old and one new.
Buy a Panasonic. Have no worries. Enjoy your games.
Plasmas are excellent in dark conditions.
Unless you're running like 100 watt lightbulbs you also won't have much of an issue with lighting either.
Plasmas suck the most like outdoors or in direct sunlight. I frequently watch my plasma with my screen door open which gets a lot of outdoor light and find little cause to complain.
It just depends on how pedantic you are about picture quality.
The only thing I can think of re: indoor lighting is that since plasmas have glass panels, you may get glare... but thats just part of the deal. Buy some lampshades.
Burn in does exist but you really have to abuse the shit out of newer plasma TV's to have any lasting burn-in.
I run my TV for hours at a time on networks like ESPN which have a 24/7 ticker logo at the bottom, and I never notice any burn-in from it that lasts longer than an hour.
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My only complaint with it, is that it makes the room really freaking hot sometimes.
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