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On Aug 12, 8:17 am, Robert Macy wrote:
On Jul 30, 1:12 pm, wrote:
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4. Color - It's virtually impossible to buy a large screen TV that
does not display colors, so I presume you mean color fidelity. That
suggests you want a plasma TV, definitely not an LED backlit LCD TV.
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PlainBill

I read and reread this. This is EXACTLY the kind of information that
seems to be obfuscated everywhere.

Sony [salesman] claims the best is the Sony LED backlit LCD screen
because it has INFINITE contrast ratio. In digging into that claim I
discovered that only means the pixels are completely independent. But
he could not answer why that was not also true for the fluorescent
backlit panel, which intuitively seems like it should operate the
same.

Wikipedia! very small mention that plasma has a wide dynamic display
range - black is black because there is no energy, where as backlit
LCD screens can only go to gray.because they are 'covering up' the
backlit source.

New wrinkle is that plasma eats power and weighs a ton more.

Is there any objective reporting anywhere on display comparison?

For example, dynamic ratio of display, color fidelity, light output vs
power input, contrast ratio, etc etc

Sommerwerk(sp?) comment about KURO set to maximum sharpness makes
sense. Edge enhancement helps solve my myopia.

Regards,
Robert

PS During the time google newsgroup acess died, I changed to eternal-
september but @#$%#@% so I'm back to google access to this Usenet. and
google access seems to have stabilized a bit.

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While I agree that plasma has better color, but life issues and power
consumption differences are hard to ignore. We bought a 55" LG LED set
last fall that is very impressive (1.2" thick, 80 lbs) AND it does
that on a paltry 78 Watts (measured with a Kill A Watt). The color is
very good. I used to do monitor alignment at a THX certified telecine
facility so I'm not just blowing smoke. Remember the the biggest enemy
of electronics is heat and 80 Watts spread out across a 55" monitor
only gets barely warm. The HDMI link from the HTPC does 1:1 pixel
mapping so is a most impressive computer monitor and is oustanding for
recorded HDTV shows.

Bottom line is check them out before dismissing them out of hand. Of
course when the OLED monitors show up all of this will be moot. I've
seen the 30" Sony BVM OLED on a demo and it puts EVERYTHING else to
shame though at $30,000 it's expected. Remember the first CD players
at $900 so its only a matter of time.

G²

I walk by a plasma tv in the store and I can feel the heat radiating.
Plasma is pretty much out of the question, as all I have seen have shiny or
have glair. It's also easy to feel the tops of the tv's in the store and
compare heat.

My new, cheap tv, is a little different. I have seen lcds loose brightness
off to the side. Mine just loses contrast.

Greg

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I walk by a plasma tv in the store and I can feel the heat radiating.

Yes, but when you sit there and watch that drop-dead-gorgeous 60" picture,
the 5 cents/hour operating cost fades away.


Plasma is pretty much out of the question, as all I have seen have shiny
or have glair.

"Have glair"?

Those of you into photography know that a gloss print has higher contrast
than a matte print. Why? Because glossy surfaces reflect the light at the
same angle it struck, while matte surfaces /scatter/ it -- to your eye --
lightening dark areas.

The fact is that, regardless of display technology, you're going to get the
best picture only in a dim or dark room. In a dark room, surface reflections
from a glossy surface aren't much of problem.