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RE: Thinking of getting a Plasma TV

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In Reply to: RE: Thinking of getting a Plasma TV posted by cfraser on October 07, 2009 at 15:06:41

We have our plasma in the family room, and during the day it is quite bright in there. There is a sliding glass door on the opposite wall from the set, and a lot of potential glare from it. Even at that, the glare issue isnt nearly as much of a problem as everyone makes it out to be. It certainly isnt any worse than it was with the Sony Wega we replaced. With the set off, you can easily see the reflections from the glass door, but with the set on, it is barely noticable (you have to try to see it). Having a bright room should not be a deterant from getting a plasma set.

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RE: Thinking of getting a Plasma TV - cfraser 12:01:47 10/08/09 (0)
My plasma setup is just like yours: in family room, facing large glass doors (south). The room is the naturally-darkest one in the house, by far. So, way back, the glass door coverings were chosen to allow some light in...I really should replace them with something thicker now that the room is pretty much "dedicated", nobody uses those glass doors much. I can see the daytime glare easily enough on the Pio 151, it has very little anti-reflective coatings. But it is not nearly as bad for glare as the Sony RPTV it replaced; the Sony CRT before that had some kind of etched (??) glass and was darkish so didn't show glare much. I rarely use the display when it's light outside, but in the summer that can mean I won't use it until after like 9:30pm. I get really bothered by glare (and lip-sync issues, and motion artifacts LOL), so I guess people have a different tolerance for it, like everything else. I just thought of this: I usually wear glasses when I watch TV, I'm not sure why, and that *may* make me more sensitive to glare?

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