LED TVs

helpimcrap · 22 Sep 2010 at 17:02

nayan89 said:
You'll notice the difference between LED and LCD by a mile.

Well what is your budget? If your looking to get a 40"+ LED for under £1000 you might as well forget about it tbh

budget? wassat!?

seriously I've seen 42" LGs and samsungs for around £400-450 for LCD and about £700-800 for LG and sony 40" LEDS. Edging more towards an LCD at mo.

-Ad- · 22 Sep 2010 at 17:04

nayan89 said:
LED > LCD > Plasma

Sony make great bluray drives

Complete rubbish, especially since LED tvs are not LED tvs but LCD tvs with LED backlight.

Take that posters advice with a shovel full of salt. Corasik has summed it up pretty well.

Ocean Breeze · 22 Sep 2010 at 18:56

LED TV's have better contrast and blacks compared to normal LCD TV's.

Bassmansam · 22 Sep 2010 at 21:24

nayan89 said:
You'll notice the difference between LED and LCD by a mile.

Well what is your budget? If your looking to get a 40"+ LED for under £1000 you might as well forget about it tbh

The LG42LE5300 is now £650 . Whats wrong with LED's under 1k? Looked good to me in store.

Kanpai · 23 Sep 2010 at 00:45

Bassmansam said:
The LG42LE5300 is now £650 . Whats wrong with LED's under 1k? Looked good to me in store.

I meant 3D LED my bad

Kanpai · 23 Sep 2010 at 00:51

-Ad- said:
Complete rubbish, especially since LED tvs are not LED tvs but LCD tvs with LED backlight.

Take that posters advice with a shovel full of salt. Corasik has summed it up pretty well.

You are right about LED TV's being LCD's with LED backlight instead of a fluorescent one, which helps alleviate the problem of poor colour fidelity that you get from LCD's. However it doesn't help the poor black levels. The image on an LED is much sharper and brighter compared to an LCD as a result.

My previous post was just a personal opinion from what I've seen myself with comparison of all three

P.S. there's two types of LED's you can get as far as I know:

edgelit: the LEDs are placed along the edges of the LCD panel
full array: rows of LEDs are placed behind the entirety of the LCD panel

Correct me if i'm wrong

Flukester · 23 Sep 2010 at 08:05

nayan89 said:
However it doesn't help the poor black levels.

The full array LED lit LCD does help black levels, local dimming in dark areas, and increased lighting in brighter areas...

As far as I'm aware the LED lit panels in latest LCDs are far from poor in this respect, and to the eye I doubt you'd tell the difference to per pixel lighting of a plasma or OLED

I'm a big fan of the sharp look to these sets... I don't think sharpening is a result of processing in the TV, but rather down to the panel. If sharpening was being done through software then plasmas would also have artificial sharp pictures to attract joe average in the street, but they don't.

All down to panels I think

, I don't think anyone can deny it when you look at the facts