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best advice vs best choice

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr on July 22, 2013 at 22:27:29:
My take on this thread is that you are set on LED LCD, so why try to steer you in another direction especially considering your follow up remarks? It's the best advice based on what you said in your initial post and the responses that you provided to those who made comments. In my opinion, you will feel most fulfilled by purchasing what your eyes consider the best representation of the display technology that you favor.

That said, in my opinion, the inmates on this forum who have suggested plasma are spot on. Unless you have a bright environment or use your display for computer work, plasma is the better choice -- hands down. As a matter of fact, I would rather watch the 50" plasma display in my living room (it was manufactured in Q3 '03) than any of the equivalent size LCD or LED LCD displays that I have seen to date. The picture that plasma presents, mostly due to its ties to CRT and the fact that it is an emmissive (light starts at the screen/glass) vs transmissive display type (LCD, LED LCD, DLP, etc work by filtering the light), make it the clear choice for viewing. A properly calibrated plasma display gets you closer to that "looking through a window" feeling than any of the other display types. There are no dead spots with plasma: you get pretty much the same picture anywhere you sit and you can sit below, above, to the left or to the right of center. Other display types, not so much and they can be from bad to hideous.

Furthermore, you have made numerous comments against plasma display technology that are just plain wrong. I'm not going to take the time to address them all, but regardless of whether it's through misinformation, misunderstanding or simply unfounded/undeserved prejudice, it's still wrong.