LED TVs

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You do realise that you can get a decent 42inch tv for that price. Why pay that much for a silly 32!

 

[Gamefreak501]

I've been thinking about it and I've been talking to work colleagues with HD-spec televisions and I don't think there is a lot of point me getting any LCD or LED-backlit televisions.

I sit around 2-3m away from my 26" LCD television at the moment, or if I'm watching a DVD I might stretch out on my bed - making it a distance of around 4-5m from my eyes.

All of my DVDs are standard (not the new HD or Blu-Ray stuff) and I hook up my PS2 (now just a DVD player, I haven't played any games on it in ages due to the image quality) and Wii.

Neither the Wii or PS2 are HD and my 8800-series video card doesn't have HDMI connectors on the back of it... so I reckon I'll just regret going down the HD route until I have a better video card and have some Blu-ray DVD and Blu-ray DVD player because the image quality from my current sources will be too showing.

 

[insane200]

we have our 7020 next to the pan v10 lcd and the picture is so much nicer on the pan, it looks so much more natural and although the picture is good on the sammy it has a horrible blue tinge to everything.

 

[james.miller]

RGB backlight doesnt mean that every pixel has its own personal trio of LED's. It simply means that instead of using white LED's in the backlight (white LED's are flawed as they are blue with a white phosphor, and dont have a natural white/colour temperature)... but instead have a clusters of red, green and blue LEDs behind a defuser to give an even and natural white backlight over the entire LCD panel.

They are not even close to being 1 cluster of LED's per pixel. Thus for a TV, especially for movies which have subtle and dark scenes the Plasma still kicks them in the .......

It's tiring reading post after post of people waxing lyrical over kuyo black depths. yes, they are exceptionally good. Yes, panasonic are going to better them at some point probably. But, its not the be all and end all. Ive used an lx5090 a fair bit and wow its really black when your staring at a black screen...but it isnt all that over my 50pz80 when you're actually watching something. Absolute black is not the be all and end all, and i can promise you displays like that HP are going to kick the kuro's in the ...... when it comes to colour accuracy and gamma tracking. after all - they are designed from the ground up as 10 bit panels (>1 billion colours and pretty much unheard of gamma tracking) for the professional industry.

i'd take that over an absolute black level any day.


oh, and lol:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10447329-1.html

In response to complaints reporting a loss in black level performance in its plasma TVs over time, Panasonic has issued a statement.

It admitted that "background brightness will increase," but described the change as "automatic" over the TVs' lifespan and part of normal operation in order to "achieve the optimal picture performance throughout the life of the set."

It also said that newer plasma TVs will include a "more gradual change in Black Level over time," but made no mention of a fix for existing plasma TVs, whose owners first noted the issue at enthusiast Web site AVS forum.

Oh dear

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1167339 the original thread, if anybody's interested. im going to check the usage of my pz80 in a minute, because i'd convinced myself the black level has increased.


edit: though so. ive clocked up 1096 hours, apparently the third ramp up is at 1000 hours

 

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Heard more and more about that recently with the panny sets. Weird and 'O dear indeed'.

Also, no need to be too jealous over the Kuro blacks

 

[james.miller]

Heard more and more about that recently with the panny sets. Weird and 'O dear indeed'.

Also, no need to be too jealous over the Kuro blacks

hehe it doesnt bother me as such - i cant say ive noticed much if any difference when watching a film or whatever, but i can see its brighter on black screen im sure