Help Sony 40" S2010 LCD or Panasonic 42" PX60 Plasma

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Ive read up so much on these, and the way i see it is as below :

Sony LCD :

Better Styling
Better to use with a PC
comes in 40", more suited to my room size


Panasonic

2 HDMI Ports
Less noise on Freeview images
Comes with That cabinet for £50, decent AV stands are £200

side by side in currys, with 50/50 Contrast / Brightness i couldnt tell any difference between these in the HD trailers they were running (Superman, Cars, Poseidon, etc..)

The new Sony LCDs have amazing response time and black levels, i really dont think those criticisms are valid anymore. The PQ on HD was really incredibly similar

but i still dont have a clue of which to buy

help !
 
Will you be viewing HD content on them?

If not, then why are you basing your observations on the screens running HD?
 
yes

i fully intend to own the TV for at least 5/6 years

and Hi Def DVD Players will be affordable within a year or so, same with SKY HD
 
i dont know much about sony's lcds but as a whole i rate lcd's opver plasmas, although th panasonicis ment to be ''The {insert four lettered swearword}''
 
I myself choose my pioneer plasma over LCD...Mainly because of the much improved SD picture quailty on the plasma screen...
Because i still think it's going to take a few years before the TV companys (SKY,BBC,ITV etc) are going send out more HD programs then SD..
 
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Are you going to hook a pc to the screen to use as a monitor ?

If yes get the LCD, better res and less chance of retention make them better monitors.

If No get the Plasma.

Its really that easy, Plasmas are still better than LCD even if the gap is closing. Properly setup the Plasma will have better contrast, better blacks and more natural colours. I can still see smearing in LCD's even it some cant but im particually fussy. As you mention SD image quality is vastly better on plasma's.
 
chaparral said:
I myself choose my pioneer plasma over LCD...Mainly because of the much improved SD picture quailty on the plasma screen...
Because i still think it's going to take a few years before the TV companys (SKY,BBC,ITV etc) are going send out more HD programs then SD..
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simply out of price range unfortunately £1500 (give or take £50) max
 
MrLOL said:
simply out of price range unfortunately £1500 (give or take £50) max
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Sorry MRLOL...I didn't mean to come across as for you to buy the pioneer plasma...I was just trying to put down in writing what made me choose a plasma screen over the LCD...
 
MrLOL said:
s'ok

trust me, if had the money for the pioneer i dont think id be posting this thread :D
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Many rate the pana px60 above the pioneer - best to have a look.

I prefer the natural colours of Panny screens, also i cant live with the pioneer judder and black levels.

Both Pioneer and Panasonic make excellent screens so either way you get a cracker :) The pioneer is just overpriced - i think the what hifi sponsorship was a good move by pioneer - keeps the price high ;)
 
you have any experience of PC useage on the PX60

i really want 40" BF2

but im worried that its going to look pants at 1024 x 768 stretched.
 
MrLOL said:
you have any experience of PC useage on the PX60

i really want 40" BF2

but im worried that its going to look pants at 1024 x 768 stretched.
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I dont have a PX60, i have a Panny PHD6, only game i ever played was Counterstrike/source - played fine and the res wasnt an issue really - think i used 1280x720 and let the screen sort it out (was a long time ago so im not quite sure, dont play pc games anymore)
 
It wouldnt have to be stretched, if you use HDMI to DVI then you can scale from a 720p resolution. I love my 42 PX60.
 
so why does every1 rate Plasmas so much, if it has to downsize the resolution to play it ?

whats the point in having a 1.5 grand plasma, and it not having the same native resolution as the lowest HD singal of 720P

surely it will look worse scaled than it would un-scaled.
 
If you have £5k to play with have a look at the new Pioneer that can support 1080P in true resolution (1920 x 1080).
 
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so why does every1 rate Plasmas so much, if it has to downsize the resolution to play it ?

whats the point in having a 1.5 grand plasma, and it not having the same native resolution as the lowest HD singal of 720P

surely it will look worse scaled than it would un-scaled.
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I think you need to get down to some shops and compare the LCD's & plasma's for yourself in real life..

And make sure to get the shop/s to give the expect same feed to each set that you maybe interested in...and test for SD & HD.

And don't let them show off there sets with cartoon films like ice age,toy story,finding nemo etc
 
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I bought that Panasonic plasma on Sunday so its too early to tell other than it looks fantastic. Only played with hooking my pc rig up to it but my son played COD and it looked great.

Getting Telewest HD in 2 weeks.
 
chaparral said:
I think you need to get down to some shops and compare the LCD's & plasma's for yourself in real life..

And make sure to get the shop/s to give the expect same feed to each set that you maybe interested in...and test for SD & HD.

And don't let them show off there sets with cartoon films like ice age,toy story,finding nemo etc
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did this in currys

watched their HD trailer which had a load of Trailers from Apple.com shown in a loop.

Watched some standard definition stuff over freeview (bit of footy, Cbeebies (which my son watches a lot of) etc..

and you know what, i couldnt tell any difference between any of them. Only thing i couldnt see was what Sky was like, or DVD players. But you cant very well ask a shop to hook up a DVD player etc.. when you have no intention of buying it there. Ill pay £1450 on-line rather than £1800 thankyou mr sales man
 
MrLOL said:
and you know what, i couldnt tell any difference between any of them.
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I had the same problem..Before i brought my plasma i was going buy a 32" or 37" LCD but i couldn't hardly see any difference between the PQ on them..

It took me about 8 months to choose which new TV i wanted..I was changing my mind every week..
 
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