Plasma v LCD - the FACTS

Posted by: Don Atkinson on 24 November 2006

Plasma v LCD - the FACTS

You could do worse (*) than visit this site sponsored by Hitachi, Panasonic and Pioneer for the facts about plasmas v LCD. www.plasma-lcd-facts.co.uk

Not surprisingly, the independent researcher's report finds that more people like what they saw on a plasma screen rather than an LCD. Well, if the report had concluded otherwise the sponsors would have hushed it up, wouldn't they?

The makers and type of screen were unknow to the sample population.

Cheers

Don

(*) possibly, possibly not.

Posted on: 21 December 2006 by Chris Morton

Technology progresses rapidly so maybe LCD is moving forward to a point where it can be compared side by side with plasma.

The reality was at least and probably still is that plasma is way superior in terms of contrast, back-level, colour acuracy and brightness.

I have a 55 inch Fujitsu plasma that does HD. It's amazing how bright the set is when you have the lights down. It's really quite amazing. Way better than any cinema experience on regular DVD (Seating position is about 12 feet away from the set).

The astonishing thing is that while HD is quite breathtaking that regular DVD is really quite fantastic, to the point that I don't feel a need to move to HD-DVD/Blueray. I suppose it depends on how obsessed you are with getting that transparent window effect that you get with HD on those nature programs. In the end though, regular DVD (using hdmi connection from a Undisk 1.1) can product quite an amazing, glassy transparent picture with tremendous brightness colour, smoothness and detail, and blackness.

The grey-scale on the Fujitsu is amazing--turn the colour down to zero and your get this amazing fine contrast in black and white that makes you realize why the image has such realism in colour.

The only way to go is Plasma.

Chris.

Posted on: 22 December 2006 by djh1697

I recently purchased one of the Sony 40" W series LCD sets, perhaps it isn't as good as my Sony CRT, but my CRT set isn't 40".

i stood in a dealer in Leicester and compared the set to various Plasma, and a Samsung set. The Samsung was £500 more, the only difference was very slight on a Blu-Ray DVD demonstration.

My Christmas present to myself!