In Reply to: Thinking of getting a Plasma TV posted by Ross on October 3, 2009 at 13:19:26:
The new LED backlit LCD units to mye eyes look better than the plasma units, which even in 1080p look grainy close up. Plasma has blacker blacks than the non-LED florescents, because the florescent bulbs lighting the traditional LCD screens always stay on at some level, making black a shade of dark gray. LED technology solves this by turning off the LED bulbs entirely under the black parts of the picture.
I think LED technology will eventually render obsolete both traditional LCD and plasma when prices come down, but the latter two are still a lot cheaper. A big box retailer has a 46 inch Samsung LED LCD for about $2000 this week, twice as much as non-LED LCD or plasma in that size.
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