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not a stupid question

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr on January 21, 2011 at 11:22:17:
You are looking at displays in an environment that is very unlike your home. Manufacturers set up their displays in "Torch" mode to compete with store lighting and other displays. There is no effort to calibrate the displays when they are shipped, nor are they calibrated at the store. It's basically box, ship, unbox and display. As a general rule, LCD does better in a medium to high lighting environment and plasma does better in a low to medium lighting environment. LCDs are getting very close to plasma black levels, especially the LED LCD models, and a few of the upper end LCDs are just about equal. Just remember that there's more to picture quality than black level. You need to consider things like color accuracy, response time (video lag), off-axis viewing angle, etc.

I also have a broadcast model Panasonic (TH-50PHD6UY). It would be nice to move it to the bedroom in place of the 42" Sylvania plasma. I was hoping to replace the 50" plasma in the living room this year with a 72" LED LCD (for the screen size). The LCD option was nixed because the douchebags at Vizio, the company that promises a rose garden but delivers ragweed, decided in late August that the 72" they teased everyone with at CES 2010 last January and throughout the year would not be manufactured.