television

[murdock]

so what is it gona be...a plasma...lcd or led

what i will be using it for

access cameras
watch tv programs
watch recorded movies from a multi media hard drive
surf the net
no gaming

full HD or HD ready

a 42" should be ample big enough and i wont even need to wear my glasses

[Justloadit]

Plasma TV's discolour with time, they have a finite lifespan.

LED is best due to the long life of the rear LED display - The LCD uses a florescent tube to light up the back, which means that it also has a finite lifespan of hours on.

[AndyD]

I would go plasma and if you're looking at 40" upward I would go with a full 1080p screen or full HD. The very early plasmas had discoloration and screen burning issues but any new generation model will not have these problems. I much prefer the contrast and colour rendering on plasma even to the newer LED backlit LCD panels.

[geraldenek]

i am not a tv expert but we have an lcd sony and a led samsung. i much rather prefer the samsung for the following reasons:

1. tv quality is substantially better ( I have heard, not sure about this, but samsung does enhance this)
2. watching movies on a hard drive. With the samsung, just plug any movie into the tv and it plays, with the sony only takes fat32 hard drives/flash disks.
3. I had an older Samsung lcd (bought 2009) and it wasn’t able to take a flash disk/hard drive, not to sure about the new ones….


42" is really big enough i don't think you will need bigger than that except if you have a "movie house" room and i would rather go for full HD the cost difference isn't that big anymore...