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[CanadaEH]

I've done a fair bit of research on all of the above but I'm curious to know what many of you have gone with?

[Trader]

Plasma--better refresh rate for sports (especially hockey), deeper and truer colours then LED. Cheaper as well as you pay for the nice, super thin look.

[deicer]

Just my two cents...

Plasma has best picture, but higher power consumption. Also washes out in a room with high ambient lighting.

LCD, and LED, same thing only backlighting is diifferent, not as sharp a picture due refresh rate being lower.

Both will be obsolete in a couple years when OLED TVs hit the market.

[DEFCON]

I've had a 56" Samsung 1080 DLP TV for four years now. It's awesome on all counts.

[Miles]

I went with LCD because  I didn't like how the Plasma screens were so reflective of ambient light in the room. Also I have 3 kids who use that TV and I was worried about the TV getting left on and having screen burn in issues as I've heard is an issue on the Plasmas. Top that off with a high power consumption, and the LCD's seemed best for me. No complaints with my decision.

As for LED's no experiences with them...

[moeman]

We've got two 50" 1080p Panasonic Viera plasma screens and love them. Have had them for about three years now. If it's in a really bright room, you'd need to close the curtains as there's some issues with glare, but at night or in a dark room they're amazing.

[boestar]

I installed a Sharp AQUOS LED Tv for my father in law and to me the picture quality is second to none, even in a bright room.  It is the Quatron version of the TV and IMHO is spectacular.  Their older DLP TV picture was poor in comparison.

[mo32a]

Plasmas don't burn in any more and have a wider viewing angle than LCD and also provide a deeper black colour.

Having said that I have two Panasonic 50" plasmas and a 50" Sony LCD and a 60" Sony DLP.

I find them all excellent with a slight edge to the Panasonics.

You can buy an OLED now if you demand perfection, but it will cost about 16k. I'm not that demanding.

[CanadaEH]

Everyone answered what I thought: to each his/her own!!

[CanadaEH]

mo32a, what model Panasonic's do you have?

[conehead]

mo32a, on 19 February 2012 - 07:02 PM, said:

Having said that I have two Panasonic 50" plasmas and a 50" Sony LCD and a 60" Sony DLP.

You have 210 inches of viewing pleasure!  That's a lot of tv!

[J.O.]

He could start his own sports bar!

[malcolm]

CanadaEH, on 18 February 2012 - 07:26 PM, said:

I've done a fair bit of research on all of the above but I'm curious to know what many of you have gone with?

I have stuck to LED TVs (LG and Toshiba) so as to avoid the glare problem but here is an article that might be of help.  One thing I focused on was the back of the TV (number and type of connections) as this varies greatly from TV to TV.  (depends upon how many and type of add-ons you want to connect).  And then there was also the control features.......  variable display etc.

http://www.pcmag.com...,2344237,00.asp

[mo32a]

CanadaEH, on 19 February 2012 - 09:39 PM, said:

mo32a, what model Panasonic's do you have?

Both of them are TH-C50FD18, bought a couple of years ago.

[Southshore]

I had to replace 3 tvs  when the local OTA signals went HD digital.  With OLED coming onstream soon, I went for the cheap store brand LCD.  The picture is still fabulous.  A little too fabulous actually.  A little too much unsettling wrinkly wattle, chipped teeth etc for my taste. I take my glasses off to go back to lo tech lo res. Ahhh, so comfortably fuzzy.