Which is the best type of tv…1080P HD-ILA Projection TV or 1080p Flat Panel LCD TV?
Which is the best type?
Which lasts longer?
Most of all my equipment is all JVC.. an JVC is starting to die out, but I’m think of staying with them since they are an excexcellent company, but what other brands would u reconmend?
An which out of all the brands is the best, as in picture sound, how long the tv lasts?
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I’d say LCD. It’s not as tried and true as CRT, but it’s not showing any evidence of being failure prone. Plasma is the real question mark. Projection TV are too bulky. I have a 40″ JVC 1080p LCD and it was consumer reports top pick. The differences between brand is rather small.
Projection vs LCD
For the same price, you definitely get a bigger size screen on projection tv. For the life time of the product, LCD will out last the projection due to the life time of the lighbulb inside the projection. you shouldn’t have to worry about the light bulb about 3 years later though. For LCD, it should last at least 5 years. By that time, you will have the chance to upgrade to the next generation of TVs.
Like every brand on the market, each manufacturer lays their circuitry of the board behind the TV differently. Some added their own technology onto a chip to enhance the picture and sound. So it really depends which technology you will be sold on. What sells me is picture quality in terms of brighter picture. It means each pixel of resolution is getting enough energy to illuminate and that is using electricity to its fullest potential. Brightness is specially obvious on LCD TVs. Sony almost always has an edge over other brands. But I will leave it up to you to judge when you actually see them side by side in person.
I have a 56″ JVC 1080P DLP with the HD-ILA and I love it. I got it at Circuit City for $2400. Great connectivity, awesome picture and great picture control. The only issue I have is that when there is fast motion you can see a “wave” behind it. I have made some adjustments and it seems to be doing better with time.
Great TV!!
LCD flatscreens are a lot lighter than Plasma TVs which weigh over a 100 lbs. Nevertheless, LCD flatscreens may have limited viewing angles and can suffer from dead pixels. While Plasma TVs are very suspectible to ghosting which is the result of having a fixed image inadvertently left on the screen for a long period of time. This fixed image will literally remain as a ghost image backgrounded to the screen. Usually the solution is to install a floating screen savers which is activated when the screen is not active.
And then there are rear projection LCD’s and DLP’s which use mirror panels and color wheels to filter and project a very large screen image [ranging from 65" to 72" diagonally measured]. The major concern is replacement cost of lamps which usually cost between $200 – $300 and last any number of hours depending on how the TV is shut off. Failing to properly shut down either LCD or DLP units which involves leaving on the main fan running for some 20 minutes — will result in early failure of projection lamps. And there’s the added concern regarding the use of “organic” material which make up the LCD panels/mirrors and usually causes the blue panel to fade over a period of time. So you may have to look forward to purchasing a new LCD projection TV. But getting back to DLP projection TV, there is the issue of viewers seeing the dreaded “rainbow effect” which are color flashes appear in highly contrasty dark scenes. Their sighting can cause headaches and is quite annoying to the viewers. And a possible cure is to choose a color wheel which operates faster than 3X; say 4X which seems to be the threshold speed that virtually eliminates the rainbow effect.
And finally, we should also consider the “ultimate, best” TV technology: “Front Projection.”
You may well want to check out another technology: DLP front projection which produces a movie-like experience of HD television, DVDs, videos and games. And according to Consumer Reports, “front projection has a superior image — better than CRT’s, LCDs or plasma.”
Check out the reviews for a “92″ DLP generated [front projection] TV image at amazon.com by submitting the search query: “Infocus SP4805.” There are any number of customer submitted pictures of projected HDTV image(s) along with other high-quality regular DVD-movie images projected on bare white wall surfaces. And the price for a refurbished ScreenPlay 4805 is about $550 with lamps costing around $330 which will last around 4,000 hours. Also check out various reviews at Consumer Reports [November 2005 & December 2006] in which front projection is rated “superior” to plasma, lcd.
Good luck!