TV upgrade: LCD or LED?

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Thanks everyone. We have decided to go with the majority..so LED it is. We will also consider checking out the brands recommended by some of you as long as it fits our budget. They don't carry plasma tvs here anymore so that's out.
@F1..I will keep that in mind. @ ecoli73..wife said nice try but better luck next time.;) Our old lcd is a Vizio btw. Still kicking after six years. It's a good thing we both like action movies and surround sound. The only movie in our collection that we don't watch together is The Twilight Saga, I'd rather spend 2 hours staring at my tanks. No offense, It's just that I don't like that movie. Happy holidays!
 
Good luck with whatever you buy! No plasma?!? I was just in best buy recently and all their magnolia and top line stuff was still plasma? The panasonic and samsungs are both fantastic. Again good luck either way!

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Plasma TV's have pretty much all died out in this town... LCD and LED TV's have come a long way in the last few years, so choosing either of those two you can't really go wrong... just do a lot of comparisons at the store and see which works best for you...

I currently own a Sharp TV, the picture quality to me is great, and the blacks are solid black, whites are also pretty much solid white... so i can't complain... although with that being said, the newer TV's are even thinner and lighter, and the color on a lot of these new TV's seem to be even shaper still...
 
IsdaFish said:
Go LED. Sharper and brighter than LCD.
Got my dad 65" sharp aqous LCD 3years ago for his bday. Then the led came out soon after should of waited.


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Hello; This has already been stated but allow me to say it again. All LED TV’s are LCD (Liquid crystal display). LCD TV’s are back lit and the LED backlit and the fluorescent tube backlit operate the same way. The advantages of an LED back lit TV appear to mainly be in the continued life and brightness of the LED lights and a reduction of electricity consumption.
There was for a time some LED backlit TV's that had circuits that would turn off individual sections of the LED's to enhance contrast (Perhaps called local dimming?). The fluorescent back lit LCD TV’s could not do this as they could not be switched on and off quickly in small areas.

LCD TV’s, either back lit by LED or fluorescent tubes, have had a contrast issue. The tiny liquid crystal sections switch from allowing almost all the light thru to give bright white parts of a picture to going almost opaque to block much of the light and produce darker parts of a picture. The issue has been that the crystals have not been able to go completely black and would allow some of the light to still pass thru.

Plasmas do contrast very well. I still see plasma TV’s in the stores. Wal-mart has them from around 40 inch to 60 inch. I have seen them recently at HH Gregg and have seen them advertized at Best Buy and Sears.
 
"Several factors can be influenced by the type of HDTV display you choose. Among them, the most prominent are screen thickness, brightness, darkness, energy efficiency, and price. Ideally, you want an HDTV that's affordable, paper-thin, can get face-of-the-sun-bright and black-hole-dark, and consumes less than a watt. That's currently impossible, but LED-backlit LCD HDTVs can come closer than the other two technologies.

For this advantage, LED HDTVs command a premium; for all major HDTV manufacturers, LED-backlit HDTVs typically cost more than CCFL-backlit HDTVs of the same size. However, LED HDTVs have become standard for both midrange and high-end models, as CCFL screens have been relegated to the budget category. Generally, plasmas tend to be less expensive than LEDs but slightly more than CCFL-backlit HDTVs. That savings means the screen will be thicker and more power-hungry, though, even if it does tend to offer as good a picture as an LED-backlit HDTV."-PCMAG.COM

Full article of best hdtv: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387377,00.asp

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Wiggles92 said:
As far as picture quality goes, LCD < LED < Plasma; however, the life span goes something like this: Plasma < LCD < LED.
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This isn't true man.... 1080p is the highest pixelation you can achieve, it is said led produces better contrast and even has a much better viewing radius, hence why lcd is the cheapest, plasma is in the middle and led is the most expensive. I have both lcd and led and my pops has a plasma, imo the colors led achieves is better, not by much tho. Plasma were the best but technology progresses at an alarming rate.

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