• My First Plasma!
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[QUOTE=BmB;26372324]50 inch full hd plasma for 800? Lies.[/QUOTE] We bought 52" for 890 Lats (1600 Dollars) at Christmas/New year Sale...I think they were actually closing.
[QUOTE=AlphaGunman;26330419]Be sure not to play anything with a static HUD for too long, you might get burn in. At least I think, not sure about newer plasma TVs[/QUOTE]There´s this "cleaning" thing...
Okay I have another question besides the blu-ray refresh rate. Sometimes when the picture is displaying a large portion of white or bright color, there are very slight horizontal lines. I've only really noticed this while watching Netflix though. Is there something wrong with the TV?
Hey I have the same TV!!!!!! [editline]29th November 2010[/editline] I also bought it for $800 from Best Buy, but this was like 3 months ago. I wanted to pick up Mad Men seasons 1-3 on Bluray as well from BB or Amazon, but I didn't. My favorite show of all time possibly. I might just wait for the series to be finished and then I'll pick the boxset up.
Does anyone know how to set this TV to be 120hz mode for movies? edit: Nevermind, I looked at the manual and apparently it only does 60hz.
I've found that anything above 60hz looks surreal, like it's moving too fast. You get used to it, but whenever I visit my parents and watch a movie, it's like... I can't explain it... really surreal and fast. Like it is being played back at 1.5 speed or something, but the sound is all normal.
Feel free to lay into me for this, but what exactly is the point of upping the refresh rate anyway? Pretty much all movies are filmed at a paltry 24FPS, upping the refresh rate won't do shit as it's not even bottlenecking anything.
I hate plasmas. They're fucking heavy and annoying to send to workshops, and when customers buy a plasma, their car is always too small for the tv to be able to stand up. I love Samsung LED 9 series. They're like an orgasm to technifags. [editline]2nd December 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=h2ooooooo;26373053]Just looked at the price in denmark... :sigh: Cheapest is 10,898 danish kr ($1,935) Screw you America! :D[/QUOTE] wat get to sweden.
LED/LCD is much better by a longshot then plasma.
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;26436805]Feel free to lay into me for this, but what exactly is the point of upping the refresh rate anyway? Pretty much all movies are filmed at a paltry 24FPS, upping the refresh rate won't do shit as it's not even bottlenecking anything.[/QUOTE] Yeah, anything over 30Hz is unnecessary.
Sorry but am i the only one who has no idea what the hell black friday is?
[QUOTE=Soul-Chicken;26438644]Sorry but am i the only one who has no idea what the hell black friday is?[/QUOTE] It's in the states. The last Friday in November, the day after Thanksgiving, all the stores have big sales. It's called "Black Friday" because it marks when stores start going "in the black", meaning they are making money.
[QUOTE=fenwick;26438688]It's in the states. The last Friday in November, the day after Thanksgiving, all the stores have big sales. It's called "Black Friday" because it marks when stores start going "in the black", meaning they are making money.[/QUOTE] My grandmother told me it was called Black Friday because in the 1700s it referred to the universally cheap sale of slaves. :geno:
I really dislike plasmas because, like regular TVs, they just have a glass screen, so you get a lot of reflection. LCDs naturally get wayyy less reflections. The reason why refresh rates like 120Hz+ are good is because they nearly get rid of motion blur, which is absolutely awesome for watching sports or any fast moving programs. The overall picture is basically more fluent. Yeah, it kinda looks weird at times, as mentioned earlier, but personally I like it. Again, watch for burn-in and that's about it. Only other thing is that Plasmas lose their contrast ratio over time much faster than any other types of TVs....but it's not ridiculously quick. Like say your TVs contrast ratio is 20,000:1, in like probably 5-10 years it will have lost half of its contrast and be at 10,000:1. The reason why, in a nutshell, is because Plasmas use gas for the picture and that gas essentially "burns out" over time (from regular use) .
Its a common misconception that LCD screens and TVs cannot have burn in. This is false. They can get burn just like everything else. Example from an airport: [img]http://eirikso.com/images/IMG_0116-2.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=UpchuckNorris;26441562]Its a common misconception that LCD screens and TVs cannot have burn in. This is false. They can get burn just like everything else. Example from an airport: [img_thumb]http://eirikso.com/images/IMG_0116-2.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Sure thats an LCD? Looks a little bit thick?
[QUOTE=Kel|oggs;26441652]Sure thats an LCD? Looks a little bit thick?[/QUOTE] LCDs haven't always been paper thin... My LCD tv (47 inch) is thicker than that. By the way, that image is a few years old, plasmas were at least 3x thicker two years ago.
[QUOTE=Generic.Monk;26436805]Feel free to lay into me for this, but what exactly is the point of upping the refresh rate anyway? Pretty much all movies are filmed at a paltry 24FPS, upping the refresh rate won't do shit as it's not even bottlenecking anything.[/QUOTE] Higher refresh rates are evenly divisible by both 24, 25, 30, 50, 60 and other common rates.
[QUOTE=UpchuckNorris;26441562]Its a common misconception that LCD screens and TVs cannot have burn in. This is false. They can get burn just like everything else. Example from an airport: [img_thumb]http://eirikso.com/images/IMG_0116-2.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] how can you know that's an lcd it's probably a plasma
LCD's don't burn in it's physically impossible, they get dead pixels and maybe a bad backlight.
Plasma will be more expensive in the long run, your electricity bills will skyrocket. They also get really hot and becomes a fire hazard when dust begins to fill its many gaps. Should have gone for a LED LCD.
It's a good safety precaution on any TV to not leave the same frozen frame on the screen for more then two hours regardless. Also, OP, should have shelled out more for an LCD-LED screen. Plasma is so out of date already. Not to mention, LCD-LED looks great all the time. Plasma's get kind of ugly in a full bright room.
[QUOTE=BmB;26442227]LCD's don't burn in it's physically impossible, they get dead pixels and maybe a bad backlight.[/QUOTE] They can, It's just that calling it "burn in" is incorrect. It's more like "Image persistence" and it takes [b]years[/b] of pretty much the same image and is usually temporary. There have been plenty of bad batches of LCD panels that have had terrible image persistence problems even after weeks, however.
[QUOTE=Kirby106;26322895]Due to today being [b]black[/b]-friday , ... [/QUOTE] the corrct term is African-American Friday
I recently just got my first HD TV too. I upgraded from a massive 30inch standard TV, which was dying. My new TV is a 24" 1080p LED LCD. I love it so far.
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