How much are good plasmas? My budget is £600 max.
I run one MCE comp via DVI > HDMI, PS3 for gaming and blu-ray & a will via component..
Ok cool, well the panasonic 42inch PX70 or the new PX80 are the tvs to look at as they are around your budget. E-mail in trust if you need to ask about locations of said tvs, or to discuss the weather
How come you are using component for PS3, much much better to get a HDMI cable?
Is plasma best? How does it fair for games? Any ghosting?
What are the pioneer model numbers you recommend?.
Plasma is still a better all round tv, with LCD only saving grace imo being gaming. I took my PS3 into 'big department store' and hooked it up to the 1080p panasonic pz70 and pioneer 4280XD (the one I bought), and it looked soo much better than on my parents Toshiba 42X3030 LCD.
Pioneer 4280XD can be had for £1167 (search over at avforums), but that is obviously out of budget. But the panasonic plasmas are the best value tvs out there and from my extensive comparisons, ****** (wee'd
) all over the other tvs I saw. I spent 2 months comparing sets, and discounted LCDs very early on.
I feel that at my budget there all gonna be much of a muchness, so I ordered. From my experience the large stores in the average retail park never have them setup correctly anyway so viewing them there is totally pointless.
Your right there, but what I did was go into various stores and got the remote so I could change the settings for a more realistic picture, using printouts from the various tv owners threads at avforums.
Majority of Plasmas up to 50" are actually 1024x768, rather than 1280x720. So technically they are not 720p, but still display it better than some LCD's. To be honest, i cant see how a good LCD which is 1080p will have less quality than a less than 720p Plasma.
Your jsut getting hung up on technical specs. Go and compare a pioneer 4280 and say sony 1080p 40inch set with blu-rays from about 6-8ft. This would be normalish viewing distance, but that could be even higher (Im at 12ft). The resolution meant nothing and the pioneer still made the other sets I saw look very ordinary. I compared the panasonic PZ70 42inch and pio 4280XD, IN GREAT DEPTH with my PS3 hooked up to them (a good 2 hours in a store). The pansonic was £400 less, but the PQ on the pio swayed me, especially the blacks, as the panasonics blacks looked grey in comparison. But what was astonishing is that the panasonic was a 1080p set, and from normal viewing distance (+6ft), then pioneer had just a better picture.
For SD stuff, Plasma is better because it doesn't need to upscale the picture as near as an LCD would do, also Plasmas tend to have better motion handling.
O ye, much better there, especially noticable in movies.
As mentioned, LCD's are a lot better for gaming and shouldn't give you any ghosting. I have never had experience with Plasmas, but i would prefer to have a 1080p image on my Samsung LE40M86BD rather than less that 720p (horizontally) on a Plasma.
Really depends on what you are viewing most. I probably should have gotten a Plasma cause i watch a lot of SD Sky. But the LCD is far from unbareable. Sure its not as good as my old CRT TV for picture, but it still looks decent.
LCDS arn't a lot better. I play a lot of games and after going back to the parents house, their LCD still looks worse than the pioneer. I also plugged my PS3 into a samsung LCD when I was doing my comparisons, but was not happy with the picture for blu-ray or gaming, that I unplugged it rather quickly. I have been round a few peoples houses whom have both had 32inch sammy LCDs, and they had all contrast, colour, and brightness settings up soo high I persuaded them to let me change the settings a bit, which still didn't help them display anything other than a blocky and un-realistic picture.
Damn I do sound like one hell of a fanboy for plasmas, but in he tests I conducted in a number of stores, each with different SD feeds, blu-ray players, plus with my own PS3, and improved settings, LCDs are still relegated to cheap 32inch,40inch sets for gaming only in kids bedrooms. If it will involve even 50% of the tvs use as watching 'tv' then going plasma is a no brainer.
Not the most comrehensive reply, sorry, rushign it out whilst I am supposed to be working
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