Living in TV Heck - Selfish Rant (mrstjohnson)

mrstjohnson

I appreciate all of the research, etc. that he is doing so we get the best deal for the best TV, but I am going nuts.

Just bear with it.  This is a man thing.   After all we have to endure hours of you all looking and going from store to store for just the right shade of blue sweater to buy.

We're TV shopping too. We're going DLP because we do a lot of gaming and well the other choices have their issues with that aspect. We're going 720 to save money. He has picked out a Samsung...

The latest consumer reports mag rates TV's..want I should let you know thier picks?

That would be great Gina!  Thanks!

We thought about DLP because it is such a good value and has an even better picture than some of the flat screens, but he wanted to mount it eventually.  He wants to go with 1080p because he has Playstation 3 which has the "True HD" and and Blu Ray player.  Two of the ones we brought home were Samsung and they looked great, but weren't right for some reason or another (I have started to lose track).

Thank you for posting this.  I think that any television greater than 40" should spontaneously combust.

I was in the middle of redoing our living room several years ago - restoring the old french doors, pulling the crummy shutters off windows, new furniture --  when a 60" tv appeared.  It takes up one end of the room.  It blocks the french doors.  I can't watch tv without getting car sick unless I flatten myself against the wall at the opposite end of the room.  The surround sound system scares the #$@# out of me because he-man likes it loud.  I don't even go in there any more, I watch any tv on a very old 20" in the kitchen.  Without HD.

Best Buy etc. does not think you are crazy.  They are just supporting the man-habit.  That's what they're there for.

I never finished the living room. 

I know what you mean Cat0, I am afraid Riley's brain is going to get fried watching the old; however, DH thinks it's cool that she can watch Tom and Jerry in High Def!  I usually go in the bedroom and watch that TV...I do not need to see Emeril from Food Network that up close and personal.

Plasma and LCD

Fewest repairs

LCD:

• Panasonic
• Sony
• Sharp
• Samsung
• Toshiba

Plasma:

• Panasonic (score of 2)
• Pioneer
• Samsung
• Philips (score of 8)

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TOP FIVE- 42-52 in LCD

• SAMSUNG LN-T4661F 46"
• SONY bravia kdl 46300 46"
• SONY bravia kdl 46s3000 46"
• LG 47B5D 47"
• SHARP AQUOS LC-52D92U 52"

If there's another brand model you are looking at let me know and I'll check the list...it goes up to 53!

TOP 2 PLASMA BY SIZE

• PANASONIC TH-58PZ75OU 58"
• LG 60PB4D 60"

• PANASONIC TH-50PZ700U 50"
• PANASONIC TH-50PX75U 50"

• PIONEER ELITE PRO-950HD 42"
• PANASONIC TH-42PX77U 42"

Do note the list goes to 28 so again...if there's a model you are curious about lemme know!

What about this one...

Toshiba 42LX177

plasma or lcd?

LCD -

We pretty much ruled out plasma because our family room has three walls of stained glass windows that I refuse to cover up and there is too much light.  He bought one of the plasmas with the anti-glare screen and I thought it looked good, but he said that the screen took away from the real plasma experience so it too went back....sigh

Okay the ONLY Toshiba LCD models listed within the top 25....

10.TOSHIBA REGZA 47HL167 47"

21. "CR BEST BUY" TOSHIBA REGZA 42HL67 42"

22. TOSHIBA REGZA 42HL167 42"

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Okay the ONLY Toshiba LCD models listed within the top 25....

10.TOSHIBA REGZA 47HL167 47"

21. "CR BEST BUY" TOSHIBA REGZA 42HL67 42"

22. TOSHIBA REGZA 42HL167 42"

OK - so the one he's looking at now isn't in the Top 25...that's good to know.  What is annoying is the the #10 Toshiba (47";) is the one sitting in my family room right now that he wants to take back. 

Thanks so much Gina!

When I bought my Sony 50" lcd, I was looking at the DLP and did extensive research. Last I knew, and this might have changed in the last year, but the Samsung DLP's were NOT good for gaming due to a video lag issue. The result is what you see on the screen was a little delayed from what occured in the games processor, and when you finally clicked a button in response, you would be late.  Might want to look into that to be sure. This would probably only occur if the TV has to up or down convert the resolution. If your tv is 1080i but your game system is 720p (like the xbox 360, for example), then the tv will have to do a video conversion, which takes time. And back when I did my research, the Samsung was not all that good (read, it was slow) at doing the conversion. To further complicate matters, the audio would not be delayed so you might get out of sync video/audio.

The other thing that steered me away from Samsung is the "clay face". They have this image processing that some people probably like but to me (and apparently alot of others on the sites I researched) found it pretty distracting. You couldn't turn it off.

Keep in mind this was about a year ago. Things may have changed.

We play games on our LCD and haven't had any issues. You probably don't want to play games extensively on Plasma (possible burn-in issues), but I hadn't heard or experienced any problems with LCD.

Don't forget that plasma tvs need to be recharged every 6 years or so.  LCD is the low maintenance (and cheaper) way to go.