What is on Your Mind?

Hi,

I am going to buy a new TV set, but I am not sure what to buy.. I would like to have a Flat Screen, around 42" (~106cm), but i am a bit confused... Reading the technical papers, plasma displays seems to better, but talking with friends and colleagues, they would prefer LCDs...
Plasma displays are bright, have a wide color gamut and could create the "perfect black" desirable for watching movies. But LCDs has big resolutions and low electric power consumption but they seem to have a very bad response time... The price is not really an argument, because at this dimension both have the same price, around €2000/$2400....

what do you think? any good arguments for Plasma displays or Liquid Crystal Displays? What would you prefer?

Do you know any sites with recommendation what model to buy from the current devices on the market? (english or german)

regards pressy

Helo Pressy, I do not own a plasma TV, but I have an LCD one (Panasonic) and It's pretty good. I'm very happy with it. I do not like watchig TV very much, so price was important to me. In your case, there are no miportant price differences, so, assuming plasma sets are supposed to be better...
Regards.

I bought a DLP rear projection last October instead of a flat screen. Love it. Picture is incredible, definately better than either plasma or LCD that I saw when shopping. However, it uses a bunch more room since it is about 18" (45cm) deep and needs to be on a stand instead of hung on the wall.

Between the flat panels I preferred the picture on LCD. Plasma tended to have colors so vivid they looked oversaturated and cartoonish to me - not like real life. Especially people's skin. Some looked noticeably green, yellow, or pink in an unnatural way since the colors were so saturated it overemphasized their natural skin tone way too much.