Johnny Awesome
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I'm looking for a nice 720p/1080i set 50" or so with good contrast mainly for gaming. Does anyone have any recommendations? Plasma? LCD? DLP? I'd like to stay under $3000 if I can...
Dunno how suitable plasmas are for lots of gaming, but 50"ers are under $3k now. (They also pull a surprising 500W in use. And I thought 300W for the 42"ers was high....) Check Costco.com, to start.
As for decent, I believe Panasonic and Samsung PDPs are considered so.
How long do you want it to last?
Plasmas are gorgeous, but as long as I live I have Taken a Mighty Oath to never buy another TV that is subject to "burn in" (our first HD was the older style cabinet RPTV), and that includes plasmas. The compromises aren't worth it to me. I let my DLP and LCD play SD at 4:3 and HD at 16:9 and I am a very happy Geo.
Y'know what, at the end of the day there is no substitute for going down to Best Buy or Ultimate Electronics or Circuit City or Fry's or Good Guys or (etc) or some combination thereof and seeing for yourself what you like.
Color me shocked. PDPs at that size have taken a tremendous nosedive in price since the time I got my plasma.
Panasonics are great and if you can get it from Costco, then you have a great return policy.
As for the differences, oy vey, where to start/
I guess you need to ask yourself, what do you intend to do with it? Watch movies/TV programs? HD or mostly SD if so?
Play games?
Surf the internet?
What's your environmental lighting conditions like? Do you have good light control?
Do you prefer natural/neutral colors or ones that "pop" off your screen?
I'm buying mostly for games and HD-DVD movies/programming. I guess that's everything.
I don't have great light control in the room it will be in, but there isn't much direct light on the screen.
My concern's are black level, 1080p?, and screen burn.
I'm buying mostly for games and HD-DVD movies/programming. I guess that's everything.
I don't have great light control in the room it will be in, but there isn't much direct light on the screen.
My concern's are black level, 1080p?, and screen burn.
I'm buying mostly for games and HD-DVD movies/programming. I guess that's everything.
I don't have great light control in the room it will be in, but there isn't much direct light on the screen.
My concern's are black level, 1080p?, and screen burn.
Even the might Pioneer elites don't handle standard as well as DLP's from my experience. LCD's are no better in this respect, btw.