Best Projection TVs

Try to buy a 40″+ flat panel TV, but see so many different terminology I am not familiar with, can someone explain to me? what is difference? what should I look for?
Thanks.

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How long in years will it last. Have heard the color and picture quality since it is pixelated will diminished with the amount of use and years you have the tv. ?

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I have an LCD projection TV (Sony Grand Vega) that I got less than four years ago and it’s starting to get dimmer and dimmer. Should I get a plasma TV if I want a long life? I got a new lamp recently, but the picture is pretty dim. What’s the problem? How long a life can I expect?

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this is going to be a huge 71 one inch tv for a home theatre so wich has the best quality?

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I currently have a 50″ rear projection HDTV monitor I connect to my cabe box and use a a television. I haven’t bought a TV for years becuase I have utilized the signal processor in the cable box. With the new technology, is there really any benefit of buying a TV opposed to a monitor if I have an HDTV cable box?

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Ok hear is the deal… About 8 months ago I bought a 50″ samsung lcd 720p. The 1080p was still a little pricy so I bought 720. About a month ago I found a 55″ Sony KDS55″A2020 SXRD (rear projection) for sale on craigslist for 500.00…so I jumped right on it cause this tv had great reviews when it came out and it was also a 1080p…which is what I really wanted…when i brought it home, I plugged in my xbox360 into the Sony and the picture was great…then I plugged it into the samsung again..LCD and the picture is so much more brighter….so now I dont know what the game was supposed to look like…lol.

Anyways..for anyone who has both a DLP, SXRD…and then a plasma or lcd 1080P….

My question is…will there be a BIG difference if I sold my SONY 1080p rear projection and bought a 1080p plasma or LCD?

I want to make sure there wont be a big change…befor I go out and buy a blueray.

Thanks in advance.

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We will be buying a big screen tv (probably around 52″) soon and don’t know what is the best. We have heard that the plasma tvs don’t last as long and the ones we have looked at are higher in price. We are looking for something that is not huge in size like some of the rear projection models but want a big screen with good picture without an outrageous price. Any tips?

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I just got a 360 and now want to buy a good tv for it. I don’t want to spend big on a plasma or lcd.. my parents have a regular HD ready big screen rear projection tv that they are willing to give me.

Is HD that much better on plasma or LCD vs a regular HD rear projector?

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I’m searching for an HD TV to purchase in the lower thousand range. Nothing crazy but want to get my money’s worth. Samsung 46″ and 50″ are what I’m looking and definitely do not want plasma. Is 780p really that bad or is it where technology is at right now and the 1080p and i are ahead of their time?!?

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I have been looking at this TV for awhile. I am compelled to purchase the Toshiba 42HP86 because it is on sale for $1299.99. But I have also been looking at the Sony Grand Wega 46″ LCD Projection for $1248.99. I am just looking for a cheap TV for my XBOX 360 and DVDs. I dont really care about surround sound I just want a decent TV. Are these bad purchases or not?
I have been looking at this TV for awhile. I am compelled to purchase the Toshiba 42HP86 HD Plasma because it is on sale for $1299.99. But I have also been looking at the Sony Grand Wega 46″ LCD Projection for $1248.99. I am just looking for a cheap TV for my XBOX 360 and DVDs. I dont really care about surround sound I just want a decent TV. Are these bad purchases or not?

P.S. – They both have HDMI inputs.
P.S. – They both have HDMI inputs.

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I am beginning to look at my family’s 65″(something like that) Rear projection tv is beginning to die. What is my best option. I can get it fixed for i think i was told about $400 a projector and it would need 3 so $1200 or just going and out and buying the new stuff? This is probably a 10 y/o TV I’m talking about. If i go out and get a new one what is the best one. Picture, Life Span, No deterioration of the picture from a different angle. What is the best TV out there for me to get. I would probably have to buy an entertainment system too…because the TV now is the entertainment system/shelves. What is my best option?

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I’m looking to get a tv and cant decide which type to get. I have a huge living room/kitchen that I will want to view the tv from. I’ve been leaning toward a 56″ Samsung slimfit DLP 1080p projection tv. No matter what I get i won’t be hanging it on the wall. I know of a website where I can get the above mentioned tv for $1570 delivered to my house. What do you guys think?

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i have a 360 and im planning on buying a hdtv, i was wondering which one would be best for it ?

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While choosing between a LCD TV and a Plasma TV, we are comparing between the two competing technologies. Both of them have similar features like super colour filled pictures and bright crystal-clear images. And, both come in similar packages i.e. 3.5 inch depth flat screen casing. Above all the price and size are the two considerations which is rapidly becoming a non-issue. As you can find now the LCD TVs are now being made in the larger sizes with competing prices of plasma TV.

Despite so many similarities, you will find differences between the two technologies, as they deliver the image to the viewer. In the case of a plasma technology, it consists hundreds of thousands of pixel cells which allow electric pulses i.e. stemming from electrodes), which excites rare naturally gases like xenon and neon-causing it to glow and produce light. This light illuminates the proper balance of green, red, or blue phosphors which is useful in displaying the proper colour sequence from the light .This is how the plasma TV works.

All the flat-panel LCD screens are placed in the heart of a projector. The LCD displays comes with the same technological background. Here the matrix of thin-film transistors (TFT) supplies voltage to the liquid-crystal-filled cells which are sandwiched between two sheets of glass. When it is hit with an electrical charge, the crystals untwist to an exact degree to filter white light generated by a lamp behind the screen. which is meant for the flat panel TVs or for projecting through a small LCD chip.

As far as LCD TVs are concerned, it uses the florescent backlighting to produce images. So, LCD TVs require considerably less power to operate than its plasma counterpart.

The extra pixels and the production process of LCD TVs cost more money to produce. So, you would find the LCD TV to be expensive as compared to the Plasma TVs.

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I need to buy an HDTV, and I want 1080p for my PS3 because PS3′s quality on a regular TV is extremely poor. I did a lot of research and it comes down to 3 tvs. Should I choose the $4500 Pioneer Elite Pro-FHD1 Plasma, 50″ 1080p (This TV is on sale. Original Price is $5500) with stand and speakers included. The $4000 Sony 52″ KDL-52XBR3 or the $900 Philips 60″ 60PP9200D37 CRT Rear projection 1080p. I’ll use them mainly for movies and sports, occasionally for gaming and seldom for news (cbs, nbc etc.) Which TV produces the best picture, most accurate color temp, easiest to calibrate and has the least problems?

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Plasma, TV has vivid colors, fast refresh and great contrast? Plasma TVs are the TVs that mostly likely catch your eye as you stroll down the aisle in your local best buy. Plasma TVs have exceptionally bright, distinct and vibrant colors.

But as with most good things in life there is a downside to consider. Plasma TVs have high power consumption and a relatively short lifespan. But then again you may well be buying a newer type of higher technology TV yet again in the future. After all having the latest TV technology has become an essential status symbol in many if not most middle class American homes. If you only wanted a TV you could of well gone to Wal-Mart or Costco and purchased a very acceptable picture older CRT TV very inexpensively.

Some tests have shown that the ability for a plasma display to show true black decreases by 13% over the first four weeks. Over a period of a few years this could show blacks as light grays in your image.

The high power consumption may not bother you if you don’t mind paying a bit more for your electric bill, but the real issue just as in laptop computers is the amount heat generated and the damage done to these electronic devices and the screen of your new and very expensive plasma TV by that heat.
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The heat comes from the million tiny fluorescent tubes on a heavy glass substrate that produces the image. This design is also part of the longevity issue. The high heat produced in a small area burns out the phosphors sooner than the phosphor on a traditional CRT. And, in tying everything together, this can also result in image burn-in especially on channels that display their logo continuously in the lower right corner.

LCD TVs are much less expensive than plasma, but also tend not to have pictures that are as sharp or bright. The other downside to LCD displays is that the pixels are relatively slow to change state. Fast moving objects such as a hockey puck or baseball bat get blurred where they might show more crisply on a plasma or good quality CRT.

Projection TVs are yet another option. Projection TV technology now produces much sharper, more vivid images that in previous years with deeper blacks that rival the CRT, and beat most of the plasma and LCD displays. This is the way to go for display sizes of 50 inches or greater.

The main drawback for any of the projection technologies is the lamp used as the light source. The typical metal halide projector lamp only lasts 1000 to 2000 hours and can cost several hundred dollars to replace. Longer life span lamps called ultra high performance (UHP) have recently come on the market that use mercury vapor instead of argon and have lifespan ranging from 3,000 to 10,000 hours.

Most consumers use their TVs on an average basis of 1,000 hours a year. That means that if the bulb is in the range of $ 300 – $ 500 dollars the cost of “running the projection TV” at a rough guide of 1,000 hours of use per bulb is several hundred dollars a year. The projections of bulb longevity are often done in best case not scenarios not the ordinary setup where the homeowner may even impair the ventilation of heat accidentally by TV and furniture placement chosen by the wife for appearance rather than electronic longevity.

Not so conceptually the projection TV bulbs seem to be very proprietary bulbs sold by the projection TV manufacturer. Bulbs for Sony projection TVs are made and distributed only by Sony. You may find a less expensive bulb say a Hitachi. However it is a judgment call. The Sony bulbs although more expensive are much more popular and easy to find on eBay – even used bulbs. But projection TV bulbs are very fragile and may not survive shipment by mail.

As with LCD display, manufacturers are moving towards high intensity LED technology to replace lamps and get lifespan measured in years. Of course, that technology is not cheap, but prices should come down as they become more available in the next several years.

On the horizon we can look forward tothe next tound on new high tech type of TVs- SEDs. What is SED?

SED is Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display. These should be coming on the market in about 2008/2009. Japan will probably start seeing them by the end of 2007. They are a flat panel display, much like the LCD displays now, but have characteristics resembling that of the CRT for contrast and image quality. This comes from basis of the design: each pixel is basically a tiny CRT. It uses less energy than plasma since it’s easier to generate an electron beam (as a CRT does) than it is to excite photons in a gas (as the plasma display does).

There is no production display of SED TVs yet available. As well there is no data yet for other performance or reliability factors.

In the end enjoy your purchase. You may well purchase a plasma TV now, pay it off, confess you really enjoyed the plasma TV and yet purchase yet again the newer SED TV for your home for its better, more advanced picture and as a status symbol for your home. It never ends.

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Plasma TVs are one of this year’s hottest electronic products. Here’s a FAQ that explains what a plasma TV is and where you can get one at the lowest price.

What is plasma TV?

A plasma TV is a television with a screen that’s composed of hundreds-of-thousands of tiny gas-filled, colored cells. When electricity passes through the cells they light up and produce a TV picture.

What are the benefits of plasma TV?

The benefits of plasma TV are:

* Lifelike picture – Plasma TVs produce a picture that’s so realistic you think you’re watching a scene through a window.

* Slim design – Plasma TVs can be placed virtually anywhere in a room and can even be hung on a wall.

* Flat screen – Plasma TVs have a flat screen so there’s none of the distortion you get with curved screen TVs.

* Large size – Plasma TVs are available in sizes ranging from 37″ up to 84.”

* Widescreen design – Plasma TVs are made in widescreen format so they’re compatible with widescreen DVDs and HDTV.

* Side-angle viewing – Unlike projection TVs, plasma TVs can be watched from any angle without the picture fading.

* Multi-broadcastf formats – Plasma TVs are compatible with HDTV, DTV, XGA, SVGA, and VGA broadcast signals.

How long do plasma TVs last?

Older plasma TVs had a screen life of 30,000 hours or less. The newer plasma TVs have a screen life of 60,000 hours.

Where can I get a plasma TV at a cheap price?

My advice is to take a trip to your local electronics store or discount store so you can check out plasma TVs in person. Then, when you find a model you like, go online and check out prices at a comparison shopping website. These sites give you prices from various retailers for anything you can think of.

The comparison site I use gives me prices from both online and offline retailers. It also gives me expert product reviews, reviews by consumers who own the products, and even reviews of the stores that carry the products so I know if the store I’m dealing with is reputable and will give me good service.

I recently purchased a flat screen TV through one of the retailers I found on this site that was $150 cheaper than the same TV I found at my local Wal-Mart. I also saved $85 on taxes (you don’t have to pay sales tax on online sites that don’t have a store in your state), and the shipping was free.

I’ve saved thousands of dollars on big-ticket items I’ve purchased online and, thanks to this site’s store ratings, have never had a problem.

Visit the http://TheSatelliteTVGuide.com to get more information, to compare prices, and to get consumer ratings for plasma TVs or LCD TVs.

The author, Brian Stevens, is the senior editor for TheSatelliteTVGuide.com and has written extensively on plasma TVs.

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Here we go, I am going to try and simply explain all you need to know about Plasma Televisions. This guide will hopefully arm you with enough information about Plasma TVs that you can confidently walk into a shop and know what you want…..

The Basics

A plasma television is a flat panel television which displays light (and therefore images) by using phosphors. The phosphors are trapped between two thin panels of glass and are triggered by a gas discharge made up fro non harmful Noble Gases. Plasma Televisions offer a variable sized screen area that provides excellent quality picture, with minimal distortion (An advantage over rear projection!) There are many plasma screen televisions on the market and currently it is vying with LCD to be the market no.1

Pro Points

Most Plasma screen televisions start at 42” (107cm) in diagonal size and go upwards to around 65” (Biggest I have seen!). This size makes them perfect for any home use or even that garage theatre you have dreamt about

Colour reproduction is excellent, and the “darkroom” contrast can ensure your display shows the “perfect” black

Plasma televisions can perform well under any lighting, whether it be electrical light or natural light. Any external brightness will not distort the display. (So you don’t have to turn the lights off for that scary movie!!)

Every pixel displayed on the Plasma screen is individually lit, this means the display is always full of colour and can be viewed at any angle

The Plasma television units are never more than 10cm thick, meaning you can position them just about anywhere in your house

Nearly all available plasma television units are HD ready and also digital TV ready

Con Points

Plasma displays have lower total resolution than LCD displays

These units are not as economical as an LCD one. Plasma televisions use approx same as old CRT units

Plasma units are still quite pricey, although in current economic climate, prices are dropping all the time

Plasma screens have a “shelf life”. This is generally 58,000 hours, by which time the colour begins to fade and does not appear as “brilliant” as before. In a general household a Plasma Screen Television will last approx 10 years (By which time something better will be around….)

Dead pixels may become an issue with Plasma. If a screen is left on pause for a long time, any logos or prominent images on that show may become “burnt” onto the display. This can cause that logo to appear everytime you watch the TV. So be careful not to leave it on pause for too long!!

Plasma displays are much more fragile than a normal television; handle with care

When mounting your plasma television on the wall, please take care to get reinforced supports as the weight is more than that of an LCD unit

Beginners Tips

When hanging a TV above fireplace, ensure the ambient temperature is not more than 80 degrees as you may damage the display

Don’t leave tv shows on pause for too long, we don’t want the “burning” effect explained above

With early plasma displays, it is advised, for best picture, to view the image from approx 10 foot away. With newer models it is less as resolution has improved

Glossary

Pixel resolution – The higher the number of pixels displayed on the screen, the higher the picture resolution will be. Currently the most common pixel resolution displayed by most TVs is 1024×768.

Native resolution – Is the standard resolution of the plasma display and not the resolution of the delivery signal.

Contrast ratio – The measurement of light intensity between the brightest white and the darkest black. Therefore you should look for the contrast ratio to be the highest possible, this will mean better picture quality.

Viewing angle – This describes the best viewing angle

HD Ready – Contains the required screen resolution and necessary connections to display high definition content. Programs should be broadcast in this format in the UK in 2006.

NTSC, PAL, and SECAM – standard video formats.

Aspect ratio – this is the ratio TV signals are transmitted in, such as 4:3 or 16:9 widescreen format (HDTV will be).

Resolution Chart

Most LCD and plasma TV sets will allow you to pick from a standard list of native or true resolution settings. The most common are as follows,

VGA, or \”640 x 480\” SVGA, or \”800 x 600\” XGA, or \”1,024 x 768\” SXGA, or \”1,280 x 1,024\” UXGA, or \”1,600 x 1,200\”

Native resolutions of TV sets,

640×480 825×480 853×480 1024×1024 1024×768 1280×768 1365×768

DTV Formats,

NTSC – 480i Standard Definition – 480i Standard Definition – 480p High Definition – 720p High Definition – 1080i High Definition – 1080p

I hope this quick guide above helps you picke the right plasma television to help you. Look back at this blog soon to find some good reviews of current Plasma models.

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Plasma and LCD panels may look similar, but the flat screen and thin profile is where the similarities end. There are a number of significant differences between the two.

Let us understand the meaning of Plasma and LCD Televisions in order to better understand the differences between them.

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY TELEVISION (LCD TV).

LCD TV uses LCD technology for its visual output. Liquid Crystal Display or LCD is a thin, flat display device made up of a number of color or monochrome pixels arrayed infront of a light source or reflector. In color LCDs each individual pixel is divided into three cells or subpixels which are colored red, green and blue. Each cell or subpixel can be controlled independently to yield thousands or millions of possible colors for each pixel. LCD TVs can make for excellent High Definition TV viewing.

LCD TVs – The Good

1. Excellent Color Reproduction – LCDs can display millions of colors accurately.

2. Multi-functional – LCD TVs have a plethora of connectivity options. They typically include inputs for composite video, S-video, High Definition Multimedia Interface(HDMI) and PC In.

3. No Burn In – With LCDs there is no problem of Burn In. Some TVs that rely on phosphors such as Plasmas and CRTs can experience Burn In where ghost images are permanently burned into the screen.

4. Inherently Progressive – LCDs use millions of tiny transistors that can be individually controlled by the “brains” inside the display. So LCDs can easily handle progressive-scan sources.

5. High Resolution – LCDs can display High Definition content with resolutions of 1366×768. The highest resolution achieved in a LCD is 1920×1080. 1080p is also called Full High Definition whereas 720p is called High Definition.

LCD TVs – The Bad

1. Expensive – LCD TVs are great but they are not cheap. LCD TVs cost more per inch than plasmas.

2. Poor Reproduction of Blacks – LCD TVs tend to produce grays, not blacks.

3. Limited Viewing Angle – LCDs have typically poor viewing angle. However, there has been a drastic improvement on this front with latest LCDs achieving a wide viewing angle of 178 degrees.

4. Slow Response Time – LCDs have longer response times than Plasmas.For example, when moving the mouse too fast on an LCD, multiple cursors can sometimes be seen. This is also known as Ghosting Effect. But this problem seems to have been addressed with the latest LCD TVs with response times as low as 8ms.

5. Low Contrast Ratio – Contrast Ratio is the ratio of the intensity of the brightest bright to the darkest dark. LCDs comparitively have lower Contrast Ratios than Plasmas.

PLASMA TELEVISION

A plasma screen contains literally millions of gas-filled cells (each one acting as a single image pixel) trapped between two pieces of glass. An electrical grid zaps these cells and causes the gases to ionize (and ionized gas is plasma – hence the name). The ionized gases, in turn, cause a layer of phosphor on the viewer’s side layer of glass to light up. Plasma TVs combine a thin, compact chassis with a truly large screen size. Despite their compact dimensions Plasmas are available in 42+, 50+ and even 60+ inch sizes.

Plasma TVs – The Good

1. Excellent Brightness – Plasma TVs don’t rely on a light bulb shining through or reflecting off of something (as an LCD or DLP system does). Plasma brightness is even better than CRT’s in some ways because the picture is evenly bright across the entire screen.

2. High Resolution – The finest plasma TVs have such high resolutions (and such smooth images) that they look life like.

3. Progressive in nature – All the pixels on the screen light up simultaneously. You can have progressive HDTV sources (such as 720p) and non-HDTV sources (such as progressive-scan DVD players) displayed to full advantage on a plasma HDTV.

4. Wide Viewing Angle – Plasmas have a wider viewing angle as compared to LCDs. Plasma displays have a good picture even when you’re sitting “off axis” (not perpendicular to the screen surface). This is a huge benefit for smaller rooms, where viewers may sit relatively far off to the sides of the screen, at wider angles.

Plasma TVs – The Bad

1. Burn-In – Plasmas rely on phosphor to display video. This can cause Burn-In where ghost images are permanently burned into the screen.

2. Short Lifespan – Another phenomenon of any phosphor-based display system is that eventually the phosphors “wear out” or lose their brightness. This is a subtle and slow process, but it inevitably happens.

3. Less-than-perfect color reproduction – Although plasma displays can produce a breathtaking array of colors, a lot of sets have the unfortunate tendency to make red colors look more orange than true red.

4. Poor reproduction of black – Plasma TVs fall short in the realm of reproducing black images. Most plasmas do slightly better job than LCD TVs at black reproduction, but they fall short of CRTs and some projection systems.

Other factors such as pricing, weight, power usage, high altitude performance and transportation are other considerations that apply on a person to person basis. So I will briefly just state the overall differences in these areas.

Pricing: Plasma TVs are still significantly less expensive than LCD in sizes over 32″.

Weight: LCD TVs are considerably lighter and as such easier to mount and install. So

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