Overall Picture Quality: The plasmas and the newest models of the TFT-LCD flat screens have the capacity to deliver high quality viewing offering crisp, clear and bright pictures. The plasma though is the one recommended for home theater usage. The cells in the plasma TVs are fixed in such a way as to prevent any light from leaking. This is an important feature because it makes the blacks deeper, which help the plasma transmit the light and dark pictures typical in movies and TV shows in good quality.
To compare, LCD technology involves the use of backlighting going through to the LCD, this makes it difficult for achieving blacks that are true in nature, and the light leaks from between pixels.
This is not to tell you that these LCD flat screens don't make good TVs for you; the ones that are sold today haver better contrast and area able to produce deeper blacks than they use to, but plasmas still does this better.
Viewing Angle: Plasmas used to have quite an advantage in the viewing angle area but the newest of the LCDs are getting better, some other info on this below...
Don't make the assumption that there is no issue when it comes to the angle of viewing when comparing LCD to plasma screen. On average, especially with the inexpensive LCD screens, when viewing off axis the picture quality does fade more noticeably compared to plasma screens.
Burn-In and Image Retention: technologically the LCD TVs do have an advantage; these do not have a tendency to get burn-in, and as far as image retention in these TVs, or image sticking as it is called, it is usually can be reversed completely.
It is vital that you know that while plasmas can suffer from burn-in and LCDs suffer from image sticking, and that both can create the problem of image retention, but these two things are individual issues.
Today the plasma's burn-in is not as much of an issue as it was in past years, and more so with the people who watch TV at a normal rate. With LCDs the image sticking situation does not happen like it used to under of course normal viewing.
Viewing Distance: Take the same size of both the plasma and LCD and the LCD has the smoothest picture of the two, as long as it is the same pixel count.
If you view your TV within the distances that are recommended, which is about double the width of the screen when it comes to HDTV, if the distance happens to be less than about 9', it is most likely that you will need the LCD screen for the best viewing.
Usage of Power: In the power category the LCD wins by far mainly because it uses a much lower amount of electricity. Approximately 30% less electricity used in fact with the LCD opposed to what the plasma of a similar size uses.
Lifetime: Both the LCD and the plasma come out equal on this. They are both rated with having 60,000 hours as far as half life. Even if the amount was only 30,000 hours, this equals over 14 years for using it if the viewing time is an average of 6 hours daily. In the USA the average person buys a new TV at the rate of one every 7 years!
The LCD and plasma TVs are based on a durable and dependable display technology today. So the lifetime seems to be more about the quality the LCD or plasma is manufactured at, more than the technology itself.
To compare, LCD technology involves the use of backlighting going through to the LCD, this makes it difficult for achieving blacks that are true in nature, and the light leaks from between pixels.
This is not to tell you that these LCD flat screens don't make good TVs for you; the ones that are sold today haver better contrast and area able to produce deeper blacks than they use to, but plasmas still does this better.
Viewing Angle: Plasmas used to have quite an advantage in the viewing angle area but the newest of the LCDs are getting better, some other info on this below...
Don't make the assumption that there is no issue when it comes to the angle of viewing when comparing LCD to plasma screen. On average, especially with the inexpensive LCD screens, when viewing off axis the picture quality does fade more noticeably compared to plasma screens.
Burn-In and Image Retention: technologically the LCD TVs do have an advantage; these do not have a tendency to get burn-in, and as far as image retention in these TVs, or image sticking as it is called, it is usually can be reversed completely.
It is vital that you know that while plasmas can suffer from burn-in and LCDs suffer from image sticking, and that both can create the problem of image retention, but these two things are individual issues.
Today the plasma's burn-in is not as much of an issue as it was in past years, and more so with the people who watch TV at a normal rate. With LCDs the image sticking situation does not happen like it used to under of course normal viewing.
Viewing Distance: Take the same size of both the plasma and LCD and the LCD has the smoothest picture of the two, as long as it is the same pixel count.
If you view your TV within the distances that are recommended, which is about double the width of the screen when it comes to HDTV, if the distance happens to be less than about 9', it is most likely that you will need the LCD screen for the best viewing.
Usage of Power: In the power category the LCD wins by far mainly because it uses a much lower amount of electricity. Approximately 30% less electricity used in fact with the LCD opposed to what the plasma of a similar size uses.
Lifetime: Both the LCD and the plasma come out equal on this. They are both rated with having 60,000 hours as far as half life. Even if the amount was only 30,000 hours, this equals over 14 years for using it if the viewing time is an average of 6 hours daily. In the USA the average person buys a new TV at the rate of one every 7 years!
The LCD and plasma TVs are based on a durable and dependable display technology today. So the lifetime seems to be more about the quality the LCD or plasma is manufactured at, more than the technology itself.
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