42" Philips or 40" Samsung

[walter duque]

Looking to purchase an LCD for my son. Used mostly for gaming. Which is the better deal?
Samsung LN40A530 at BB for $799.00
or
Philips 42PFL3603D/F7 at Walmart for $797.00
both are 1080p
Thanks for any feedback.

 

[GZA]

I would go with the Samsung, i have the same one and i love it and have not had any problems. Only game i noticed ghosting on was GTA4


Thats also a great deal, when i got mine in october it was around 1200

 

[skers_54]

I would get the Samsung. My brother has a Phillips LCD and it looks decent after I calibrated it. They have some really bad default settings that make the display look terrible out of the box. My gf has a sammy lcd and it looks pretty darn good considering the price. Better than my bro's Phillips.

 

[rekced]

I would go with the Samsung, i have the same one and i love it and have not had any problems. Only game i noticed ghosting on was GTA4


Thats also a great deal, when i got mine in october it was around 1200

That ghosting your seeing is probably not the panel, but the game itself. I noticed an odd blurring in that game even on my plasma screen. I think it's a feature built into the game that makes the low frame rate of console systems less noticeable when it's trying to render a detailed atmosphere very quickly.

 

[krzywica]

That ghosting your seeing is probably not the panel, but the game itself. I noticed an odd blurring in that game even on my plasma screen. I think it's a feature built into the game that makes the low frame rate of console systems less noticeable when it's trying to render a detailed atmosphere very quickly.

Yeah I would go for the Sammy.

And I think its actually one of the effects of the game as I play a myriad of games on my HTPC in my sig and I get the same effect with GTAIV and my system runs it perfectly maxed out.

 

[rekced]

Looking to purchase an LCD for my son. Used mostly for gaming. Which is the better deal?
Samsung LN40A530 at BB for $799.00
or
Philips 42PFL3603D/F7 at Walmart for $797.00
both are 1080p
Thanks for any feedback.

If I'm reading the specs on cnet correctly the max resolution that Samsung supports is 1080i. I doubt that's the case, but check it out anyway. Regardless of what you find, get the Samsung.

 

[walter duque]

Thanks for all your input. You made up my mind for me. Went for the Samsung.