Posted on 08/28/2009 2:02:29 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
I went with on because the use less power and they last longer.
The heat and energy created by the plasmas are awfully high, at least on my Panasonics. Wonder how the LCD’s compare?
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I think LED is WHY the LCD and Plasma sets are getting so cheep. The retailers clearly see the writing on the wall. You don’t want to be stuck with a bunch of those things.
I was amazed at the power consumption of the LED sets. And every square inch of the set is the same exact brightness. And the thickness, and the weight. Well, I ramble, but you get my drift.
Congratulations on your set. With blueray it must be spectacular.
I don’t have Blue Ray. I download movies. I only watch them once. I have gone all digital. I have pulled all VCR’s and DVD players. I only use my XBOX 360 for playback. It has a great picture. My Rotel receiver and Vandersteen surround speakers are what makes it. I just changed from a InFocus 61md10 to the 55” Samsung. I miss the bigger size but Samsumg LED is limited to 55” right now. The picture is like having a window on the wall. It is a 3D picture.
LED is the way to go. Forget Plasma or LCD.
I was in a store and watched a little of Sea Biscuit on blu-ray on an LED screen, maybe 50” screen...an AMAZING combination of technologies. It was the first time I looked at a screen and was unreservedly impressed...this at various angles and distances, even a FOOT AWAY. I’m glad I’ve held off on LCDs. They are...in my humble opinion...horribly overrated.
I agree with you. Unfortunately I have some money invested in plasmas, so it may be awhile before I “upgrade”. OLED’s sound interesting also. Wonder where they are relative to LED’s?
.....and in south Texas.....we had only 3 stations....in B/W.... The weathermen had to actually draw graphics on a paper chart....
>>I was in a store and watched a little of Sea Biscuit on blu-ray on an LED screen, maybe 50” screen...an AMAZING combination of technologies. It was the first time I looked at a screen and was unreservedly impressed...this at various angles and distances, even a FOOT AWAY. I’m glad I’ve held off on LCDs. They are...in my humble opinion...horribly overrated.<<
It is interesting you say that. In my exercise room I STILL use my sharp 32” tube set. When the Plasma an LCD sets first came out I had been doing a lot of reading on the subject. I remember going to the TV store and, although I noticed nice bright colors compared to my CRT set, I was totally unimpressed with the picture. Movements would blur, the sharpness came and went. There were weird artifacts and there was an odd unnatural look to the picture. And I am not talking about the “analog tv” picture when viewed on those sets. But when it is viewed, it is shown up for just how bad it is.
Meanwhile, the LED sets I’ve seen eliminate all of that. They really are what I envisioned in “flatscreen” back in the 1970’s when my AV buddies and I talked about it.
I looked at the Sony first. They are more expensive and the picture is not as detailed. Now having detail can be a problem. I was watching Star Wars on Spike the other night. The CGI masking sticks right out. You can see a cheap set very well. If the show is good, you will love it.
I think you mean LED back light. OLED sets which use no back light at all are still extremely expensive and may never catch on.
I think the LED back lights give a higher contrast ratio, but if that's what turns you on, then get a plasma for much less money. The fact is most HDTV's today look great to most people, regardless of the cost or technology.
Drool! I have been wanting something like this for years! Now movies will really play like movies really do in the theater. In the theater a 24 fps movie is actually played at 48fps, with a shutter in front of the lamp flashing each frame on the screen twice, in order to reduces Persistence of Vision:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_of_vision#Film_systems
Look at the positives.
It’s helping heat your house in the winter.
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Ya, those $15,000 32" LCD TV's will never catch on either. I mean, who the hell is going to buy one of those?
What? You can get a 32" for under $500?
Yes! But when they came out, they were as much as a car. The OLED may experience the same drop in price and increase in size.
The interesting thing about LED backlighting, in addition to the reduced power consumption, is its novel ability to selectively turn off or greatly reduce the amount of backlighting in certain areas of the screen, dictated by program content. This boosts the contrast ratio several orders of magnitude. And as we all (should) know, better contrast == better picture quality.
And while we wait for OLED to drop in price, the other technologies keep getting better and they are already affordable. That's why OLED may never catch on.
Sorry to nitpick, but the TVs are LED backlit LCD, rather than true LED picture.
That is true but it is a better LCD and blows then away.
Thanks, Dave. Got a 64 inch Samsung DLP. Looks good so far ........ FRegards
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