Buying a Plasma, maybe an LED. Which one?

[MihatMuhcane]

Ok, now you really have me looking at 65in DLP. I would go for the 73 but I'm out of Country alot and it seems that they have a few more problems than the 65in do?

Just another decision for me now :{ LOL

Not familiar with the 65 Dlp but I own a 50 inch DLP the screen is so reflective that I must draw the blinds to watch it; this is an RCA DLP the lamp hums and has hummed since I bought it. It likes to eat projection lamps at the rate of at least 1 per year the shortest one I had lasted half a year. The lamps are not cheap the last time I bought one I found a place in Texas that carried them cheaper then anyone else. Energy hog it is. It broke last month and I went with a back light led LG model not worth putting up with the problems that the DLP had it was a 2004 model.
Just giving you my two cents, when I bought the RCA it was in a dark room and looked fantastic.

 

[LearnToListen]

Hey Guys and Gals,

New here so here are my questions for the experts.

I'm getting ready to head back to the States for my leave and am going to buy a new living room TV. Room is 19ft long, 15ft wide with a 4ft x 8ft opening into the kitchen on one side. Good viewing room with some ambient light during the day.

I have been looking at the following tv's

1. 55" Vizio XVT Tru-LED VF551XVT2A

2. 58" Samsung Widescreen Plasma 1080p HDTV Model: PN58B540

3. 58" Panasonic Viera S1 Series Plasma 1080P HDTV

4. 58" Samsung Widescreen Plasma PN58B650

5. 60" LG Plasma Full HDTV 1080P 2,000,000,:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio

6. 58" Panasonic P58V10

So now your input, which one and why if you don't mind. What's good about the particular model you suggest and what you don't like about it or any of the others incase I'm leaning toward one that isn't your pick. I have a 40in Samsung in the bedroom that I bouht last Dec and very happy with it so far.

Also, I arrive back in Country on Christmas morning and would like to order a set and have it waiting on me "but" if that's a bad decision and I should wait until I get back and go look at them that's what I will do.

Where would you recommend the purchase or best price found that you know of?

Thanks for your help guys.............Al (the FNG here)

Hello BigAl614 After looking at HDTVs for the last couple of months, my wife and I narrowed it down to 2, which turned out to be #4 and #6 on your list. Our first pick was the Panasonic, but we could not find a deal on one at the 4 stores we visited, so we ended up getting the Samsung PN58B650. We heard nothing good about #1 and #5 on your list and everyone we talked with said if you purchase one of those get the longest extended warranty offered for them. Hope this helps.

 

[LearnToListen]

BigAl614 if you're now thinking about the Panasonic 65 inch, you may want to check this out> http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1173693

 

[Milkdud35]

Plasma can have great picture but lets not forget the drawbacks, heat , life, glare, burn in to say the least. LED is strongly and quickly gaining the attention it deserves . It has some key featres to gain that as well. Take a look at the Samsung 8000 or 8500 series for top performance, look at the 7000 series for some purely awesome performance on a budget... hope this helps !

All of those issues have been resolved for years now. Heat... just a trait of the technology, not so hot you have to run your AC or anything like that at all. The power consumption is actually lower than LCD due to the fluctuating consumption when going from light to dark images. Dark pixels on a plasma are nearly turned off. LCD pixels are always on, all the time. Life...Panasonic Rates to 100,000 hours...8 hours a day every day for 34 years. Burn in...possible? Yes on all technologies, Plasma or LCD. Likely? No. If it does happen it will "wash-out" after several hours of viewing regular content such as movies and tv shows. Glare...Panasonic Plasma (except U1, C1) have an anti glare coating on the glass. The higher end LCD's now have high gloss screens, in an attepmt to get the color detail Panasonic Plasmas do, that reflect worse than the antiglare.

Agreed LED is a gimmick, who cares how flat a TV is when its on the wall...the difference between a LED and a plasma mounted to a wall is only gonna be about at most...5 inches. When you're sitting 12 - 15 ft away you wont really notice. If its on a stand it matters even less because the TV is still on a stand that is 18 inches deep.

 

[cmchen0]

Totally go for a plasma TV. The sammy and the panasonic are not too bad. If you have the budget, go for a Pioneer Elite Kuro.

 

[gtsdls]

I have a Pioneer and with a good signal it's like looking thru a window. Just set up a Panasonic G10 for my inlaws. LCD's have improved tremendously, but the plasmas (at least to me) look more natural.

 

[3db]

Beaware of the high pitched humm that seems to be plaguing the Panasonic Plasma's. Here's teh thread ...

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48417

 

[bandphan]

Well the good thing is that was 2 previous gen pannys, one sammy, and a one post wonder. The buzz of all plasmas is there, usually unnoticeable unless standing in dead silent room and 3" from the display The buzz was also reported in some Kuros as well. AVS has a couple of dedicated threads on the buzz, no pun intended. Please do not let this sway your decision on a Panny plasma as they are isolated occurrences. The buzz is no more a ploblem, than the heat generated, the burn in issue, or the electric bill you get.

 

[3db]

Well the good thing is that was 2 previous gen pannys, one sammy, and a one post wonder. The buzz of all plasmas is there, usually unnoticeable unless standing in dead silent room and 3" from the display The buzz was also reported in some Kuros as well. AVS has a couple of dedicated threads on the buzz, no pun intended. Please do not let this sway your decision on a Panny plasma as they are isolated occurrences. The buzz is no more a ploblem, than the heat generated, the burn in issue, or the electric bill you get.

This makes me wonder if the same supplier is used for all of these experiencing this problem?

 

[docrings]

Thanks Dude, but I will be coming back and heading to Afghan sometime in 2010 also.

My wife could enjoy the new tv while I'm gone but we/she spends alo of time in our bedroom because it's such a comfortable room and maybe with a new tv in the living room it would get used more by us while I'm home and her when I'm gone again? I have a 50in Hitachi Unltravision that the new tv would be replacing so 55in is the smallest I would be willing to go (Vizio LED) The 73in does sound nice but I want a crisp picture to go with the size, that's why I was leaning towards the Plasma and maybe the LED more than the DLP? I guess I could wait, I'm sure the 65in Plasma's will be $1500 before you know it? How good is the pic on the 73in? Can it compare at all to the 58in Panny or Samsung plasma?

I have an Onkyo 100 watt surround reciever and JBL L7's and will modernize those items at a later date at some point.

Make sure you purchase and buy a Harmony remote before you leave, and have your wife well-versed on using it, and using the "Help" key on the remote... a total life saver, and marriage-saver while you are away.

 

[slupry]

A 73 inch DLP tv will be great.

 

[kmad61]

Panasonic plasma all the way.