LED or Plasma? Or is LCD still good?

Raymond Lin said:
No sunlight will ever hit the TV. The window in the lounge is north facing and tbh, I rarely watch TV in the day, I have a job :p plus I like watching movies in the dark.
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Perfect conditions for Plasma, watching movies in the dark will be much better on a plasma due to black levels, you also don't have to worry about viewing angles with a plasma.

I've owned 2 Panasonic plasma's neither have suffered any burn in issues, you get mild image retention but you have to be looking for it and it's temporary, I'll take IR over the faults that LED TV's suffer from e.g poor motion resolution, cloudiness, poor viewing angles, blacks not as deep, backlight bleed.

For that sort of money I'd be looking at the P42ST50B, or if you can stretch your budget a little you can get the 50" version for £911.

Review of the Panasonic

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/panasonic-tx-p42st50b-p42st50-201203191731.htm

Note the reviewer also purchased the 50" version of this set for his own personal TV at home, considering he has access to pretty much every HDTV available and still chose it should tell you something about how good it is.
 
Somnambulist said:
What's your viewing distance? With 1080p you could easily do 50" at 7-8ft.

Also if you can hold out for another month or two the 2012 Panny's will probably drop in price in the xmas/post xmas sales, as well as when the 2013 ones are announced.
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8ft exactly from seat to current TV

Broken Hope said:
Perfect conditions for Plasma, watching movies in the dark will be much better on a plasma due to black levels, you also don't have to worry about viewing angles with a plasma.

I've owned 2 Panasonic plasma's neither have suffered any burn in issues, you get mild image retention but you have to be looking for it and it's temporary, I'll take IR over the faults that LED TV's suffer from e.g poor motion resolution, cloudiness, poor viewing angles, blacks not as deep, backlight bleed.

For that sort of money I'd be looking at the P42ST50B, or if you can stretch your budget a little you can get the 50" version for £911.

Review of the Panasonic

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/panasonic-tx-p42st50b-p42st50-201203191731.htm

Note the reviewer also purchased the 50" version of this set for his own personal TV at home, considering he has access to pretty much every HDTV available and still chose it should tell you something about how good it is.
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Thanks, will out it on the shortlist and keep an eye out for its prices :)
 
You can get it for £739 using the code TVLS25 at coop electrical, there is also £15 topcashback bringing it down to £724 delivered. Amazing TV for that price, you can then use a Panasonic offer to get 2 pairs of 3D glasses for free too.
 
For that distance I would say 42 is too small.

I am 6 foot from a 46 and if choosing again it would be a 50 probably (but 46 is fine) I was considering 42 but glad I didn't go for it

But that room and night viewing screams plasma
 
I watch a 42" from about 8-10ft and I find the size fine, I wouldn't class it as too small at all, but I'd personally rather have a smaller but higher quality screen than a larger but lower quality one, of course if you have the budget then you'd get a larger higher quality screen.
 
I had a plasma, the picture was great but they buzz like hell. As did the second one, as did the third one. I now have a led.
 
How much power does a modern LCD/LED use? I've had my Panasonic P42X10 connected to a power monitor and the most I could pull from it was 140W. That doesn't seem like an awful lot for a 42" plasma TV IMO.

As has been said already, it's all down to the individual. I've seen a lot of LCDs and haven't really warmed to them. The Panny was my first flat panel and it's been brilliant, however my next TV will also be a Panasonic plasma.

Whoever said that plasmas buzz, I can stand right next to mine with all audio on mute and I hear a very faint buzz. I'm talking so faint that I can't hear it when I go and sit on the couch. If there's an audible buzzing, send it back and get another. If that does the same, get another model.

Even being several years old, my TV does suffer from image retention although not really noticeable until you go to a black screen. It is a little bit concerning when you notice it but it's never failed to clear.

Get a good plasma and don't look back.
 
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agw_01 said:
Whoever said that plasmas buzz, I can stand right next to mine with all audio on mute and I hear a very faint buzz. I'm talking so faint that I can't hear it when I go and sit on the couch. If there's an audible buzzing, send it back and get another. If that does the same, get another model.
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Thing is, how much you notice or are bothered by noise pollution varies quite a lot from person to person. I considered my Pioneer to have it at a moderate level yet most people never notice it (or at least never bothered to mention it).
 
Raymond Lin said:
Which has the most accurate colour reproduction ?
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Hrmm well either can do a good job once properly calibrated I'd guess, one huge advantage of plasma is it doesn't have problems with viewing angles. I'm using an expensive LED at the moment and it still surprises me how awful the viewing angles on it are.

With your price range I'd follow the earlier advice and look for one of the slightly older plasmas, unless I'm mistaken this year they've focused on stuff which hasn't improved the picture quality (smart functionality, 3d, thin bezels, power efficiency) so you wouldn't be missing much.
 
DeathStorm said:
With your price range I'd follow the earlier advice and look for one of the slightly older plasmas, unless I'm mistaken this year they've focused on stuff which hasn't improved the picture quality (smart functionality, 3d, thin bezels, power efficiency) so you wouldn't be missing much.
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Both Samsung and Panasonic have increased image quality this year, Panasonic's ST and above all have better black levels than last years VT, better motion resolution etc. Samsung have made similar improvements.

Plasma is still increasing quality a great deal each year, LCD/LED not so much.
 
Broken Hope said:
Both Samsung and Panasonic have increased image quality this year, Panasonic's ST and above all have better black levels than last years VT, better motion resolution etc. Samsung have made similar improvements.

Plasma is still increasing quality a great deal each year, LCD/LED not so much.
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Agreed :)
 
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