Got a sweet on a plasma deal this weekend!!!

[Enellz 10+ year member]

Is it that serious. I got a LCD so sue me, but I do want a LED. Their pictures are beautiful

 

[snoopdan 5,000+ posts]

I got a sanyo plasma....but it got hit by lightning FTL //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

I got a sanyo plasma....but it got hit by lightning FTL //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

Well your not supposed to store it on the roof :duh:

 

[Ray21 10+ year member]

After reading through the misinformation in the first few posts, I gave up.
Here is the truth:

1. LED is inferior to plasma in nearly every way and usually costs 1.5-2x as much.

2. Plasma life is longer than both LED and LCD

3. Plasma has better picture quality, faster response time, better viewing angles than both LCD and LED

4. As mentioned above... black levels on LEDs are approaching plasma... still not there. Again, substandard technology, higher price.

5. Plasma "burn-in" is all but a thing of the past, unless you're a complete ****ing dumbass or buy the cheapest, shittiest plasma out there and abuse it daily. Think of a Pyramid amp running with maxxed gains all day long.

Only two areas where LED/LCD even compare to plasma:

- power usage (plasma is only slightly higher, despite the deliberate misinformation you may have read)

- brightness levels - only a factor in VERY bright rooms with no way to control lighting at all. 95%+ of home environments it won't be an issue

These are the things I learned in the 4 months of research I did on HDTVs before buying my 54" Panasonic G10 plasma.

Misinformation is out there... research is your friend.

This. /thread

Congrats on the deal... people are sleeping on plasmas.

 

[plugitin 5,000+ posts]

i get a sweet discount with Panasonic...oh yeaaah

 

[tRidiot 10+ year member]

idk what LCD sets your looking at but I can easily lift my 42" no problem. After looking it up, it says it weighs 47 pounds. It's not just the fact that it would take two people to mount a Plasma, it's the fact that your wall has to support twice the weight. An amateur can easily mount an LCD but if you don't know what your doing and try to mount a plasma, you'll end up with a big hole in your wall and a nice broken tv.

The sets I was looking at are right there in the post... I put in model numbers. The reason I chose larger heavier sets, is because the original post talked about a 54" plasma, and I also have a 54" plasma, so that is what I was comparing. If you want to talk about 42" models, the 47 pound-LCD you have is equivalent to the 55-lb G10... a difference of 8 lbs. Not exactly humongous, or in my eyes even a factor at ALL. I managed to place my 54" 85-lb plasma on my 5' mantle by myself... when I went to wall-mount it, I had my 110-lb wife help me. It wasn't all that tough.

As for my wall supporting the weight, a flat-panel mount tied with lag bolts to two studs will support several hundred pounds easily. An interior wall with wooden studs is extremely strong when it comes to holding weight, the biggest weakness will be your choice of mounting hardware (aka lag bolts) and your ability to find a stud to mount them in. Pre-drill into studs and weight will be a non-issue, once again. BTW

I do agree that plasma's have much better contrast ratios. That's the only thing I dislike about my LCD. When I'm watching a movie that has a really dark part, it seems like the entire picture gets really dark. But when I'm watching something that's really bright (like Flight of the Phoenix) it looks amazing //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

If you're looking at contrast ratios, the only one that matters is native... dynamic contrast ratios (the ones you see in the hundreds of thousands and millions) are useless stats that should be immediately ignored. Any salesman who brings up the contrast ratio should be asked to explain in-depth how those ratios are arrived at by manufacturers and how those methods are affected by typical in-home viewing scenarios with real movies. They'll quickly sputter their way to another subject 99.9% of the time.

The biggest thing that turned me off on LCDs and LEDs was when I finally trained my eyes to see the ghosting. UGH! Like the old goatse or tubgirl, what has been seen cannot be unseen, and even the 120Hz and 240Hz displays had horrid trailing ghost images. A lot of my friends couldn't see them, but when I showed them what to look for, they also couldn't get around it, and it pretty much ruined LCDs/LEDs for them.

 

[Mannycontinues]

I dunno but I love the way video games look on lcd.

 

[Ekimdude 10+ year member]

Lcd is much better now, plasma is a dying technology and a year from now will be extinct. All these people buying plasma's now wont be able to fix them in 2 years when they break and will have to go buy a lcd. I have had a Kuro Elite and now have a Samsung 8 series led tv and while they are both very nice tv's, the led is better.

 

[bass_lover1 10+ year member]

idk what LCD sets your looking at but I can easily lift my 42" no problem. After looking it up, it says it weighs 47 pounds. It's not just the fact that it would take two people to mount a Plasma, it's the fact that your wall has to support twice the weight. An amateur can easily mount an LCD but if you don't know what your doing and try to mount a plasma, you'll end up with a big hole in your wall and a nice broken tv.
Is this a deciding factor? No, I just thought it was a positive point for the LCD side that you missed. But then again when your making an argument for something you usually don't point out positive facts for the other side //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

I do agree that plasma's have much better contrast ratios. That's the only thing I dislike about my LCD. When I'm watching a movie that has a really dark part, it seems like the entire picture gets really dark. But when I'm watching something that's really bright (like Flight of the Phoenix) it looks amazing //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Twice the weight? Find me a 42" plasma TV that weighs 94 lbs.

Mine weighs 63 lbs w/o the stand. Sure it's heavy, but I wouldn't say twice, also, once it's mounted, who cares how much the **** thing weighs?

 

[tRidiot 10+ year member]

Lcd is much better now, plasma is a dying technology and a year from now will be extinct. All these people buying plasma's now wont be able to fix them in 2 years when they break and will have to go buy a lcd. I have had a Kuro Elite and now have a Samsung 8 series led tv and while they are both very nice tv's, the led is better.

Explain what specifically is better about the LED. There are a VERY few situations where I would recommend an LCD or LED over a plasma, but again... those are few and far between.

Oh, and lots of folks have been saying exactly what you are saying, that plasma is dead and won't last another year, etc. They've been saying that for YEARS.... and yet... here plasma is still going strong.

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

Good deal, I love my plasma.
Though, which I would have waited a year, 42" Plasmas have really dropped in price //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

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At Fry's last week they had a 42" Samsung 1080p plasma for $600, and the same thing in the 50" version for $850.

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

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At Fry's last week they had a 42" Samsung 1080p plasma for $600, and the same thing in the 50" version for $850.

****, wish I saw that deal...

Well thankfully I got my Vizio from Walmart.com, so it has a 90 day return policy no questions asked...but the policy is up on the 6th (2 days, lol) I keep thinking about taking it back because I know there's going to be some killer deals on black friday...

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

As for the plasma/lcd debate...I've had both, ad I'll never buy a lcd again.

 

[RAM_Designs 5,000+ posts]

****, wish I saw that deal...
Well thankfully I got my Vizio from Walmart.com, so it has a 90 day return policy no questions asked...but the policy is up on the 6th (2 days, lol) I keep thinking about taking it back because I know there's going to be some killer deals on black friday...

There certainly will be good deals, but you might get trampled to death trying to get them!