Looking at a Samsung 50" Plasma HD but TBH I dont know a great deal about them.Whats going to be the difference between a

 

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and a

 

 

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Am I going to notice a difference in the picture between the two?:confused:

if it was me i would buy a sony 42" 46"or 50" make sure its 1080p to future proof ur self and get a blu ray player either stand alone or ps3,

 

My choice would be 46" with ps3 that way u get the best out of two worlds. But if ur stuck on samsung get the 1080p one and just hope u dont have any probs!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

But 4 me who has had sony all my life and has given so many sets away once i get new ones all i can say is that sony are rock solid and have never had to take any thing back apart from cd walkman when thay first came out and that was me doing somthing wrong

oh and mac1 we have met befor at jap show i was with bee jee vince told u how to wire up mirrors just in cace u thought i was butting in

ps how the spiders

Hello bud,

 

How far are you sitting from the TV cos that'll make a difference on the right size for your room. I though about a 50" for myself but ended up with a 42" cos of the viewing distance ;)

 

Also just in case you know a member of Costcos, they now give a free 5 year warranty on their TV's ;)

 

Vijay

I've got a 50" Samsung plasma and it makes a buzzing noise also but you don't really notice it because i've got a dolby digital amp blocking out the buzzing but it is annoying when your listening through the tv speakers. I've also got a 32" Samsung LCD in the bedroom, it has better picture quality but after just over a year i've noticed a couple of dead pixels.

A lot of people on the AV forums, buy their tv from john lewis for the free 5 year guarantee.

 

They look up the TV's in stock in john lewis on pricerunner, then get JL to price match it, but the price must be available from a shop not the net!

yup, got my samsung lcd from JL :D very happy with it too

I just bought this from http://www.aria.co.uk , delivered to my door in 3 days as well. I havent had a chance to get it running yet but it has an LG panel in it (whatever that is). LG allegedly make panels for most tv's. Gotta be good at the price its going for...

 

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Displays/Televisions/40+and+larger/Elonex+50%22+Plasma+Television+HD+Ready+%28LG+Panel%29+?productId=30846

 

Cheers John

Thanks for everyones help on this.

Just thought I would let you know my head is spinning like a TD05 18G at 30 psi:wack::eek:

Thanks for everyones help on this.

Just thought I would let you know my head is spinning like a TD05 18G at 30 psi:wack::eek:

 

you feeling a little laggy then lol

panasonic viera 42" for me. samsung are good though

This one Iain... Enough said... The Daddy...

 

http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/446386/SAMSUNG-LE52A557P2FXXU

 

Samsung a better at making LCD's than Plasmas although there new 5 series Plasmas like the 1080p one you put a link on is good...

 

Basic rule of thumb, go for the highest contrast ratio you can... The bigger the contrast ratio the brighter and clearer the picture... Darker deep blacks and Brighter whites... The one i've chosen for you is a beast!!! LCD's work better in a wider range of lighting conditions and this one has an awesome response time... You we're happy with your PC monitor, now get this!!!

 

The reason it's 52" and not 50 is beacause of the way an LCD panel is manufactured... 52" on an LCD will give you a precise perfect pixel for pixel image where as 50" would be slightly not perfectly sqaure... Not that you would notice with the naked eye but that's the tech guff behind it! Also Samsung's have a nice mode called "Just Scan" which reproduces the pixels exactly as they we're intended to be shown.. Awesome on PS3 and blue ray...

Thanks Jon thats very interesting. Like I said I know very little on the subject and I thought plasma was always better than LCD.

This one Iain... Enough said... The Daddy...

 

http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/446386/SAMSUNG-LE52A557P2FXXU

 

Samsung a better at making LCD's than Plasmas although there new 5 series Plasmas like the 1080p one you put a link on is good...

 

Basic rule of thumb, go for the highest contrast ratio you can... The bigger the contrast ratio the brighter and clearer the picture... Darker deep blacks and Brighter whites... The one i've chosen for you is a beast!!! LCD's work better in a wider range of lighting conditions and this one has an awesome response time... You we're happy with your PC monitor, now get this!!!

 

The reason it's 52" and not 50 is beacause of the way an LCD panel is manufactured... 52" on an LCD will give you a precise perfect pixel for pixel image where as 50" would be slightly not perfectly sqaure... Not that you would notice with the naked eye but that's the tech guff behind it! Also Samsung's have a nice mode called "Just Scan" which reproduces the pixels exactly as they we're intended to be shown.. Awesome on PS3 and blue ray...

 

Thats the one I have,can not fault it.

A lot of it is down to personal taste in what kind of picture you like but just make sure you watch standard and high definition pictures on them as some that give a great HD image look absolutely terrible on standard TV or Sky.

Also Sky transmit all their channels at different bit rates so have a flick through a few channels as the main ones like BBC etc tend to look much better.

Ask to see a fast action scene on BluRay to really test it to the limit - this will show you if its going to start juddering and blurring.

Thanks Jon thats very interesting. Like I said I know very little on the subject and I thought plasma was always better than LCD.

 

Used to be the case a few years ago but LCD panels have better control over what the picture is doing and more stable... The only thing I will say is as far as a normal terestrial picture goes i.e if your watching Freeview or Normal Sky, then a plasma image will apear better... The reason being is because the picture is not so precise as LCD Plasma can mask digital noise block very well.. An LCD screen especially on a bigger scale will show every imperfection the original broadcast has.. In other words until the analogue signal is switched off altogether to free up the available bandwidth then the images are some what compressed...

 

An old CRT tv will piss all over the latest screens as far as Freeview or Non Sky HD is concerned... Cause new tv's are such a high resolution and more lines, the picture is having to be scaled up to fit the screen... Where as on the older CRT tv's the lines we're perfectly matched to the broadcast... ;)

Used to be the case a few years ago but LCD panels have better control over what the picture is doing and more stable... The only thing I will say is as far as a normal terestrial picture goes i.e if your watching Freeview or Normal Sky, then a plasma image will apear better... The reason being is because the picture is not so precise as LCD Plasma can mask digital noise block very well.. An LCD screen especially on a bigger scale will show every imperfection the original broadcast has.. In other words until the analogue signal is switched off altogether to free up the available bandwidth then the images are some what compressed...

 

An old CRT tv will piss all over the latest screens as far as Freeview or Non Sky HD is concerned... Cause new tv's are such a high resolution and more lines, the picture is having to be scaled up to fit the screen... Where as on the older CRT tv's the lines we're perfectly matched to the broadcast... ;)

 

Yep thats exactly why I decided on plasma as I could really notice the difference on standard definition which is what I will be watching on it 90% of the time but comparing Full HD plasma against Full HD LCD I couldn't notice much of a difference other than a lot of the cheaper LCD's juddering.

Even if I had Sky HD at £60+ per month there's not that much new stuff to watch on a weekly basis.

I loved the top end Sony LCD's but they were going on for £4K which is just silly when it didn't look any better than a plasma half the price.

I download a lot of movies but at the moment 1080p is not really an option at 20GB+ per movie! I recently downloaded Casino Royale and it took over 2 weeks on a 20 meg connection LOL

BluRay disks are still a rip off at the moment so I can't afford to buy too many of those when new releases are up to £30 a go.

I signed up to LoveFilm online and rent a couple of BluRay disks a month for £3.99 and copy them to hard drive on my media centre PC ;)

Bargain.

Jon can you give me any info on screen burn is a plasma more prone to it?

Jon can you give me any info on screen burn is a plasma more prone to it?

 

Yes, Plasma is def more prone to it... Just for example if you freezeframed a picture such as MTV for example, because the MTV logo is in white after around 3 to 6 hours of the same image not moving then screen burn will def occure... White pixels are when the panel is working at it's hardest, the screen burn you'll get is like the old cash point machines where you can still see the black text or borders etched onto the screen... Even when you turn the thing off you can still see the logo's or image burned in...

 

Modern plasmas have a mode called pixel shift so how that works is if we freeze framed our MTV screen again, the pixels would shift left after 5 mins down after 5 mins, right after another 5 mins and then up after another 5 mins until the thing returns to it's original location... It's designed to limit screen burn but it can still occure...

 

LCD can still get screen burn but unlikely as you would have to have the same image on the screen for 26 Hours+ so not immune but unlikely! :hyper:

Hi Iain,

 

I got mine down to the samsung and the panasonic and after testing both i bought the panasonic and never regretted it :)

 

I prefer the look of the samsung but everything else the panasonic wins hands down

 

you can get it here for £1229

 

http://www.electricaldiscountuk.co.uk/itfx_product_details.php?pid=7390&PHPSESSID=e731b013f558b3b6c439c290cd30d882

 

i got them to price match it at martin dawes and walked out with it, i also got a nice piano black stand and a bluray player from MD and paid just under £2k 6 months ago.

 

If your over this way your welcome to see it in action :)

 

Mike

also dont listen to the rubbish about screen burn, it used to happen really badly in the older screens but the modern screens with progressive scan etc on them pretty much gets rid of it.

 

my son has the kids channels on all the time with the logo in the top corner and ive never had any burn in the last 3 plasmas ive had :)

 

Mike

Look, Mac, get a HD projector for now (

 

If your over this way your welcome to see it in action :)

 

Mike

 

Very kind of you Mike I could be over the North West next week so will give you a shout;)

I've got my PC connected to my 50" Plasma and have left it sitting on the windows home page for hours and its never left any traces of screen burn, my mate Brian (flikz) even commented on it because his Panasonic LCD leaves terrible screen burn images.

I have been thinking about a plasma TV. Only want a 42" or even 38" but whilst looking at an array of plasmas in Tescos I noticed that the best quality picture and it was way above the rest was a Toshiba. 2nd place IMO was the Sony. But the picture on the Toshiba was excellent. The clarity might not have been that obvious had it not been displayed next to the others.

That's the one for me when I do go Plasma.

I have been thinking about a plasma TV. Only want a 42" or even 38" but whilst looking at an array of plasmas in Tescos I noticed that the best quality picture and it was way above the rest was a Toshiba. 2nd place IMO was the Sony. But the picture on the Toshiba was excellent. The clarity might not have been that obvious had it not been displayed next to the others.

That's the one for me when I do go Plasma.

 

the problem is you should not view a tv in a shop or if its in a shop make sure they have it hooked up with decent cables and a decent source is bluray etc

 

most unfortunately are multi linked to one source which degrades so you get a shite picture

 

its all personnel but i have a samsung lcd which i love, i always go for the panasonic plasmas as i believe they make the best panels for the home market, i also have a cheapo 37" which for £380 is amazing, i use it for the ps3 in my games room and for the money its bob on :)

 

Mike