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In Reply to: RE: Suggestions wanted: (=)50" HDTV posted by Cory M. on August 18, 2010 at 19:33:43
Keep your room cool and save some energy. Go LED backlit.
Check out cnet.com for TV reviews
For your first dip into HDTV with a limited budget, don't go for ultra high quality, even an average HDTV will blow your socks off.
In a few years when you are ready to upgrade, you will be better qualified to decide on what you want.
Get your TV at a local store. Bring a hardcopy of online prices and show to manager for discount. Don't be too proud to buy a display model, you will wave hundreds. If you buy online, prepare for the worst should anything happen. I bought mine from Sears, got a smoking deal. A couple years later the power board went, they came into my house and fixed it right then and there.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
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Hi Brian,
That's all very good advice, thank you. What you've laid down is pretty much my stance at this point.
Do all plasmas run that hot? If so, I would definitely be better off with an LED because I've got 4 hot tube amps in close proximity, so it would probably equal a fireplace with the TV.
I am definitely going to buy locally.
Cory
The heat issue from plasmas is way overblown. My 50" Panasonic plasma does not generate that much heat (probably like a 20W bulb, at most, distributed over the entire screen). Dont worry about heat. Now to the picture quality. Plasmas win by a good margin. Newer LED/LCD technologies are way better than they used to be, but still have not caught up with plasma. Dont judge by what you see in the stores. They will crank up the brightness and color on the higher profit sets which help grab the uninformed eye. You can only judge a properly calibrated set of any technology.
Just talk to the hand.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
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