Samsung UN55B7100 55" LED HDTV
wow, what a shock to see tv's getting reviewed now!
i'm not about to sacrifice picture quality in order to save $30 a year in electricity, so it's plasma for me.
it's hard to quantify how bad lcd off-axis viewing is when you are looking at only one tv, but when you stack several of 'em up against plasma tv's...
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2 ... 236,00.asp
i'm not about to sacrifice picture quality in order to save $30 a year in electricity, so it's plasma for me.
it's hard to quantify how bad lcd off-axis viewing is when you are looking at only one tv, but when you stack several of 'em up against plasma tv's...
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2 ... 236,00.asp
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That's a very interesting article, thanks for the link! I read the entire article as well as the discussion -- the latter really should be considered part and parcel of the article. I don't think you'd be so convinced of plasma's picture quality if you read all the comments.danimal wrote:i'm not about to sacrifice picture quality in order to save $30 a year in electricity, so it's plasma for me.
it's hard to quantify how bad lcd off-axis viewing is when you are looking at only one tv, but when you stack several of 'em up against plasma tv's...
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2 ... 236,00.asp
Regarding off-angle picture quality -- I don't want to be sitting more than a foot beyond the edge of the screen, simply because of the angular/perspective distortion, the same reason I won't go to a movie theater if I can't get a seat near the center. It makes for a much less convincing viewing experience, period.
On axis, I've found plasmas generally have a bit less detail relative to LCDs... tho I admit I have not examined a high end model for long periods as I did with this Samsung.
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"danimal"
Thanks for the link. I learned a lot.
I already knew that:
--> for computer displays, CRT's can be better than LCD's
--> a good used professional quality 22" CRT display is only around CAN$25
--> for TV's, plasma can be better than LCD
--> Plasma TV's cost a lot of money and CRT TV's can be !FREE! if you have strong friends to help retrieve them for new digital flat panel owners
Now I know how much better picture quality plasma TV's can have.
Thanks for the link. I learned a lot.
I already knew that:
--> for computer displays, CRT's can be better than LCD's
--> a good used professional quality 22" CRT display is only around CAN$25
--> for TV's, plasma can be better than LCD
--> Plasma TV's cost a lot of money and CRT TV's can be !FREE! if you have strong friends to help retrieve them for new digital flat panel owners
Now I know how much better picture quality plasma TV's can have.
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i think that the article was using a crt as the reference? still the best, but limited by size.
what i got out of the article discussion was that the people who wrote the study were behind plasma picture quality over lcd, but they got hammered by the lcd groupies in the discussion... if you look on that website, there is another article on 120hz that's a pretty good read... look at the credentials of the author, the same guy wrote both articles.
imho, the type of backlighting used on lcds is highly overrated, if i wanted an lcd big screen for some reason, i'd be concerned about the panel type:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFT_LCD
for the relatively cheap price of these big screens, i don't see 'em using the best lcd panels, and none of the manufacturers seem to be telling what panels they are using.
plasma technology is the minority, but it's getting better, and it's finally getting cheaper just within the last few weeks... i just got a panasonic p54s1 shipped to my door for $1008, after bing and a 10% sears card discount... the picture quality is really good, regardless of the viewing angle.
what i got out of the article discussion was that the people who wrote the study were behind plasma picture quality over lcd, but they got hammered by the lcd groupies in the discussion... if you look on that website, there is another article on 120hz that's a pretty good read... look at the credentials of the author, the same guy wrote both articles.
imho, the type of backlighting used on lcds is highly overrated, if i wanted an lcd big screen for some reason, i'd be concerned about the panel type:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFT_LCD
for the relatively cheap price of these big screens, i don't see 'em using the best lcd panels, and none of the manufacturers seem to be telling what panels they are using.
plasma technology is the minority, but it's getting better, and it's finally getting cheaper just within the last few weeks... i just got a panasonic p54s1 shipped to my door for $1008, after bing and a 10% sears card discount... the picture quality is really good, regardless of the viewing angle.
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I was very specific about this -- off w/ the Samsung remote gives 0W. Most definitely with the power cord in the wall.DAve_M wrote:Usually, "off" = standby. With the only way to get it really off is to pull the power cord out of the wall.MikeC wrote:Yes. Info added to table - 0W when off, 32W in "standby" - power on w/ no active input.
Standby as I defined it is when there the video input goes dead ( because of no input source or PC screen off or...) -- at which point the power at AC is 32W. Samsung's claim of 0.2W is valid.
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