Help me decide which HDTV to buy
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I prefer plasma, I enjoy the heck out of mine. My friend has the DLP HD projector setup and it's awesome but unless you have a nice large almost theater type of set up going on in a den or something it can look tacky. If you wanna go cheap projection tvs are being phased out and you can find a pretty decent one for less than a grand (picked up one for my living room for like 699 bucks) but yeah, the plasma tv would be my choice
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Plasma is getting better but only when they come in huge sizes like 50 inches and up. Sure you can be satisfied with a smaller plasma but it's not the best for the price.
LCD's are better than plasma but the blacks aren't as good. Also some LCD's have problems with motion blur and can leave streaks because the refresh rate can't handle fast framerates. Although they are getting better also. They are decently priced.
DLP TV should be the way to go unless you absolutely want the projector. Which is fine. DLP has better colors compared to the other two. They don't burn in like the other two, and are decently priced as well.
LCD's are better than plasma but the blacks aren't as good. Also some LCD's have problems with motion blur and can leave streaks because the refresh rate can't handle fast framerates. Although they are getting better also. They are decently priced.
DLP TV should be the way to go unless you absolutely want the projector. Which is fine. DLP has better colors compared to the other two. They don't burn in like the other two, and are decently priced as well.
Well, this has been my experience with the projector and screen.
It was a nice den with the whole theatre look setup, and the guy had a decent projector and a huge screen with 7.1 surround sound (although we're not talking about sound). My personal opinion is that the projector looks great. I'm not sure what the exact specs of his projector were, but the refresh rate kept right up with whatever you played, whether it was movies or games.
He used a demo disk to show off some things like the color depth it could handle, and it was fabulous, and there was a scene from Star Wars Episode III and like I said before, the refresh rate kept up with it and everything.
Considering that getting a plasma screen would cost about $8000 for the size he had, the projector and screen is the way to go. It also makes things easier to move around and whatnot. The only drawback that I see is that it may take some time to callibrate it for what you need.
It was a nice den with the whole theatre look setup, and the guy had a decent projector and a huge screen with 7.1 surround sound (although we're not talking about sound). My personal opinion is that the projector looks great. I'm not sure what the exact specs of his projector were, but the refresh rate kept right up with whatever you played, whether it was movies or games.
He used a demo disk to show off some things like the color depth it could handle, and it was fabulous, and there was a scene from Star Wars Episode III and like I said before, the refresh rate kept up with it and everything.
Considering that getting a plasma screen would cost about $8000 for the size he had, the projector and screen is the way to go. It also makes things easier to move around and whatnot. The only drawback that I see is that it may take some time to callibrate it for what you need.
I would go with a projector..but all of them that I have seen have a rainbow sheen to them that no one else seems to notice...
creepindeth said:
It's the burn-in that motivates me more than anything. I'd just spend the dough on the Plasma, because I think it has the best picture. The reason I'm getting a new TV is that my current one has meters from a couple different games burned into the corners. I don't want to spend all this money only to ruin my set the first time I pass out in front of the TV with the game paused. That's why I was leaning towards DLP. The way I see it a DLP TV is just a projector and a screen in a fixed position, and if I got the projector I could choose the position, but maybe there's something I'm not realizing.
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oliphant said:
Sort of. DLP is a technology of thousands of tiny little mirrors that project a certain color at any given time to represent a pixel. It's not quite the same as an actual projector with a bulb.
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I don't have an answer, but my hubby started a similar topic at a different forum awhile back, and we still have not gotten a new Tv, so maybe the answer is a tad confusing.... like different people like different kinds best for different reasons.
creepindeth04
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Plus you should also wait till there is enough content that comes in 1080p. Unless you don't plan on watching anything in that resolution.
I think I'm going to go with the DLP flat screen instead of the projector/screen. I'm more of a stickler for sound than anything, and the projector/screen just makes more noise than the TV. I saw the DLP model I want in the store yesterday, and it looks just great, to me the picture was better than the Plasma they had on display. My cousin has an LCD with a couple of dead pixels, one look at that was enough to scare me off.