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DLP vs Plasma vs LCD

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Hi everybody. I'm finally ready to upgrade my venerable Pioneer Elite 62" widescreen RPTV from 1995 that has served me beautifully and still looks awfully good for movies through my Camelot Roundtable MKII DVD player via S-video (it predates Component connections). I plan to keep the Roundtable, which has a VGA output, and upgrade to a Hi-def TV soon, having just taken delivery of a Direct-TV Hi-def DVR, which also now looks great on the old RPTV via S-video.

I'm looking at the Samsung 61" 1080P LED based DLP for about $2,000, and just had a salesman try to convince me that the new $8,000 Pioneer Elite 62" 1080P Plasma is WAAAAY better than the 1080P Samsung DLP. He said the upsampling in the Samsung is really crappy, and WAAAAAY better in the Pioneer Elite, yielding better off-angle viewing, three dimensionality, color, etc.

Who is right here? Why not just buy the Samsung, which everybody seems to love (according to Amazon feedback)? I can afford much more, but why? Is Plasma that much better? All comments will be much appreicated. I do keep my TV's for a very long time, as you can see.

JeffS

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I would look at... - budget fi 17:49:21 09/26/07 (0)
...contrast ratio, response time, refresh rate and of course what looks good to you. LCD has the brightest picture and may be better for bright rooms. Some people like the colour on plasma sets.

The only real advice I could give is to look for something with a 120hz refresh rate. Something to do with being able to better handle 24 frames per second of film or 30 frames per second over air broadcasts. You might have to spend more than $2k but certainly not $8K.

Have fun!
RE: DLP vs Plasma vs LCD - Mag 18:42:18 09/25/07 (0)
I could be wrong but I don't see upsampling as an issue. Because any source that you connect your tv to for HD will upsample the signal anyway. The tv will then downsample if necassary to its native resolution.
I don't know which tv I'd buy, but the Samsung would be on my shortlist for that size of tv.

Just my .02 cents

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