I have an older 57” Toshiba 1080P DLP, back when I bought it the technology was sound, its still a RPTV and thus not a flat screen but was ideal for gaming, its only drawback was the lamp assembly that was poorly designed and required a replacement yearly.
Its my personal TV and the rest of the family uses a 50” Panasonic plasma which has awesome colors and brightness.
This year I am planning on upgrading to a 65” plasma since the prices are much more reasonable, and I have read a lot about the new 3-D Tv’s and players. For the last year all my movies bought have been Bluray, and will continue to be so for some time as I don’t think a better format will evolve anytime soon.
I have heard of LED Tv’s having problems so I’m not going to jump in on that yet, the plasma has that awesome high contrast factor and with a refresh rate of 240hz would be perfect for high speed images. So that is what I am going to buy, a non 3D high hertz plasma.
Check out the latest Panasonic 65 inch plasma with 3d. I checked it out and it’s awesome, the 3d effect is incredible. If you have a PS3 it is also a 3d blu-ray player, provided you did the firmware update via the internet. 3d games look really cool too.
The Panasonic uses glasses, I”m hoping soon you can get the same effect without glasses.
I had sentimental reasons for preferring a plasma TV. I studied engineering where the original tech was developed, and one of my classmates led its commercial R&D and licensing for many years.
But when it came time to get a TV display again (after not personally having one for several years) I went looking in the stores, paying special attention to the plasma displays and comparing them to the LCD/LED models.
Over the period of a year and a half, and observing a dozen plasmas set up in half a dozen stores, I consistenly noticed poor contrast from the plasmas compared to the others. Every single plasma had a greenish tint where the image should be black.
Sabotage? How could it be occurring in every display unit in every store over such a period of observation?
I finally threw in the towel and got a Samsung "LED." (I wonder what the'll call real LED TVs when they arrive.)
A little off topic, but I also got a Samsung receiver that plays movies from the internet. That plus my DVD/Blu-ray collection are all I watch.
I have a Netflix on-line viewing account, but many of the shows are difficult, some impossible, to watch because of hiccups in the transmission. A friend has a Roku box which apparently fetches and stores entire programs/movies ahead of time, so you don't see the transmission hangups.