age old question - Plasma or LCD??

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I've fancied a bigger screen than my current 32V2000 sony LCD for a few months now. It seems with the release of 2010 models there are some good bargains to be had in the plasma market. I've been looking at the Panny 42G10 in particular. Seems you can pick these up for £630-£650 if you can find the stock.

Uses of the TV will range from SD, HD sport, Blu ray and lots of gaming. I've got a concern over screen burn though, is this still an major issue?

I guess I'm wondering if i should be looking at LCD's instead. I can't spend much more than the £650-£700. I maybe able to find another £100 if it really is worth it.
 
I opted for plasma after being impressed by relative's Panasonic TVs on a variety of sources. Reading around confirmed what I'd saw, so I went for a G10 just before Christmas when they came on at JL for £699 with a free BD player.

No issues with burn, gaming is great (though some apparently have phosphur trails - like a yellow ghost) and blurays are jaw dropping. It's a brilliant set.
 
I've had a Panasonic x10 for around 6months and im super impressed with it, no problems with image burn or gaming etc. G10 was out of my price range but with the X10 at crazy prices at the moment its a great bargain TV. With your sources mainly HD though worth shelling out for a 1080p on a big screen, G10 sounds a good choice to me :)
 
Syph said:
I opted for plasma after being impressed by relative's Panasonic TVs on a variety of sources. Reading around confirmed what I'd saw, so I went for a G10 just before Christmas when they came on at JL for £699 with a free BD player.

No issues with burn, gaming is great (though some apparently have phosphur trails - like a yellow ghost) and blurays are jaw dropping. It's a brilliant set.
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The G10 or if you shop around the G15 are both great buys on a budget..
Ditto... and more than happy after having a Pana PZ70B plasma before this newer plasma..
Really depneds on your own eye ..
All i would say is view as many LCD/Plasmas as possible..
 
i was in same situation as you about a year ago. at the time i had a 720 HD LCD but wanted something 1080p. after going to the shops to demo Sony, Samsung, LG, Toshiba, JVC, Panassonic, Lowes and Pioneer, it was a no brainer -> Plasma all the way, so I got a Pionner Kuro :) best TV I have ever bought, better than my B&O.

Unfortunately for you Pionner do not manufacture plasma any more - you may be lucky and find a new one in a shop if you look around. Otherwise Panassonic would have been my second choice.

I too was worried about screen burn and IR, but the recent plasma have software that avoid this so it not an issue. My TV is on all day and never suffered any screen burn or IR. I cannot say for the Panassonic, but from what I have read it doesn't seem that this is an issue for them. (i have read of some IR issues on Panassonic when gaming long, but apparently there is a feature that will remove the IR on those sets, kinda works like a screen saver from what I understand)

conclusion Plasma for the win -> just go to the shop and see for yourself, make sure that the settings are correct ones, not all shops do this properly and test both HD and SD material and you will see that plasma is just superior image quality.
 
lunarwolf said:
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I cannot say for the Panassonic, but from what I have read it doesn't seem that this is an issue for them. (i have read of some IR issues on Panassonic when gaming long, but apparently there is a feature that will remove the IR on those sets, kinda works like a screen saver from what I understand)

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I have a had Panasonic plasma (a TH37PX60B I think) for about 18 months, and have had 1 incident with Image retention. I left the set on with the V+ menu showing. As Virgin boxes show a small picture of the channel you just came from, the TV did not notice the still image and drop the brightness, it just burned the image to the screen overnight.

I just watched the TV as normal, and the Retained Image had gone within an hour.

I am still very happy with the set, and whilst it's not a 1080p screen, I have no intention of changing it. One of the clinchers for me is the quality of SD images, as most the stuff I watch is still SD.
 
Spunkey said:
+1

My TH42PX60B is still fantastic 3 years on.
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Second that. I had the purple snakes, but got it fixed, no sign of burn, and its used for bluray, dvd, skyHD and gaming, and it does great for all of that. Sure its only a 1024x768 panel, but from 10ft or more it still looks jawdroppingly good.

Only thing I can say is that the latest LCD's are almost up to the black quality of my 3+ year old plasma!... But the newer plasma are better again. So honestly, what is the reason for not picking a plasma these days?

Oh yeah, the 2009 generation Panasonic Plasma's also come with a better power efficiency, and the 2010's are getting the black tech from Pioneer, so its looking good :).
 
-Ad- said:
LED !!!!

Mega contrast, Eco power and thin like a knife.

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You can get fake over enhanced dynamic contrast on modern plasmas too, but the picture still looks better with it turned off. And LED, you know its just a limited array of LED clusters behind a defuser to act as the backlight. Currently there are no LED panels which have 1 (or even 3) LED's per pixel. (Probably never will be, it would be easier to have a large OLED panel than combining a 1920x1080 LCD panel with a 1920x1080 LED backlight system)

Plasma have the highest dynamic contrast, and the most natural "standard" contrast. The greatest black detail, and they are slowely catching up with power efficiency too.
 
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