When buying a TV, the usual comparisons are made between the LCD and Plasma TVs available. Now LED have been thrown into the mix to offer further options. Plasma TVs stand out to many for their sleek dimensions, deep blacks, warm colours and ability to display impressive images at large screen sizes. As well as that Plasma flat pannel tvs can be a third cheaper than eqivilent LCD TVs.
There is a fine line between the technology on board Plasma, LCD and LED TVs, all capable of displaying images to a very high quality. Pioneer were the kings of Plasma TV for some time, but in 2009 they announced that they were to cease production of Plasma TVs and concentrate on their Car Audio products instead, handing over the Plasma division to Panasonic. Manufacturers such as Panasonic, LG and Samsung have become the most popular for producing Plasma TVs, with some extremely impressive technology on board to produce outstanding images and the deepest blacks. It is common for a reputable branded plasma TV to have a life expectancy of around 50,000 which equates to 20 years at 6 hours viewing per day. The viewing angle is particularly wide providing a great view from any angle. Plasma TVs also provide very bright images, as much as 4 or 5 times brighter than an average TV.
The main draw back for Plasma TVs is that they use so much energy, some of the big 50 inch Samsung TVs can cost as much as £150 a year to run. On the plus side with Plasma you get a excellent picture quality and a serious lot of screen for yout bucks, 50 inch is now the biggest selling Plasma screen size in the UK.
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Bought a new led lcd tv, looks great but the sound is awful. big gamer but don’t want to spend a lot of money whats the best way to go to make it sound better. should i just buy at walmart their home theaters even though i don’t need another dvd player?
Try plugging a pair of headphones into the TV (if the TV has a headphone input), you will be surprised at how good that can sound, and it’s not a big investment.
You could also buy a pair of surround headphones. This model doesn’t require a receiver, because it includes a small surround decoder and amplifier: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826235005&cm_re=tritton_ax_pro-_-26-235-005-_-Product .
If your not concerned with getting 5.1 surround sound, you could get a soundbar. Some of them come with a subwoofer for increased bass.
If you buy a cheap surround system, make sure it has at least one optical audio input so that you can game in 5.1 surround sound. Some models only have 2.0 stereo RCA audio inputs. And some have no audio inputs at all, so the system will only be able to play sound from discs played in the built-in disc player, and nothing else.
Proscan 47LED55SA 47-in LED-LCD 1080p 120Hz HDTV for $799.00 + Free shipping – from Walmart.com
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Samsung UN46C7000 46-Inch 1080p 240 Hz 3D LED HDTV (Black) Other products by Samsung Ratting 4.5 Out of 5.0 Special Offer Total New 14 Use
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- Mega Dynamic Contrast - 4 HDMI (ver 1.4), HDMI-CEC - Component & PC input - 2 ConnectShare Movie - BD Wise
“AWESOME!” 2010-05-31 By Jose E. Gallo At te begin I thought it was a bit expensive, even when AMAZON offered the best price, but when I received the TV I was really impressed. First looks really smart and incredibly thin (less than one inch!), is definitely beautiful. The picture quality is spectacular, when you look at high definition channels cannot believe the sharpness, colors, etc. 3D function is great and even when the supply of these movies are limited, the offer will increase rapidly. In short, the best of tecnology (including internet connection) in a beautiful design. About the sound, is pretty decent, you cannot expect 1000 watts of power (for that are home theaters). For those who love television the spending is more than justified! Definitely I recommend it.
“Great picture. Turn off the Auto Motion Plus” 2010-05-18 By Justin Noel (Boston, MA) Fantastic picture quality! Easy to set up and use. Shippers were great, unpacked the TV and made sure it worked before they left. The only complaint is I spent my 1st whole night wondering why all my shows looked the Soap Operas. Turns out this is caused by Samsung “Auto Motion Plus” feature that adds extra calculated frames to the video stream. Turning this off made the picture look as I expected (i.e. Law and Order’s proper gritty/jerky camera motion when the detectives are on the street). When this mode is off the tv is still running at 240Hz, but shows the same frames unaltered over and over just like the movie theater does rather than trying to “make stuff up” in between frames. I now only turn on the “Auto Motion Plus” when watching hockey.
“Very good tv. Colors and refresh rate is amazin.” 2010-05-15 By Jia Hao Gan (CA) One of the best tv I have seen. The surface of the tv is glossy an beautiful. The design looked like it was designed by apple. The back of the panels have enough ports for you to play in anything. I have an 55 inch Vizio LCD and this samsung LED completely destroys the Vizio LCD in quality. It is so light and thin that I lifted upstairs myself. Refresh rate is so high that the pictures looked fake (in a good way). Buying this is like having an art peice in your room. Even the remote controls are state of the art design. It looks metallic and expensive. When my girls come over they look at it and play with it cause it looks that good.
WARNING: DO NOT BUY THIS FOR THE 3D. Buy it for the LED TV. This 3D is the worst I have seen. The quality for 3D is so poor that I invited 4 friends over the see it. One got dizzy, the other ones said the picture looks fuzzy. Which is true, they blur the background making the image quality fuzzy just to create a 3D effect that is garbarge to my eyes. If I stared at it for too long my eyes might bleed. I hope this is a firmware issue and that samsung can eventually update this technology…. Even with the “free” 3D glasses they gave me, I can honestly say it was not worth it.
4 Stars for the LED TV. ZERO stars for the 3D technology Samsung invented.
“Great picture, great apps, slight backlighting bleed on black” 2010-05-10 By Martin Babb (Seattle, WA USA) Great product: excellent picture quality (in HD), great design, great apps (LOVE the Netflix app- quality is unsurpassed) and great remote. Only complaint really is that unless the black level is set so low that the tv is unviewable during the day, there is somewhat significant backlight bleedthrough on large black areas- and not only at the corners or edges. On black title screens there is an odd mottled effect from the uneven blockage of backlighting.
Other than this one problem, which I understand is corrected somehow in the current 8000 series, I couldn’t be happier with my purhchase.
“Be cautious with the UNC Models” 2010-05-07 By J. Miller This isn’t going to be a full videophile review; only a word of caution. After purchasing this TV, on the second day, the menu would pop up and try to change to component or another mode (like store demo mode) or it would change the viewing settings from “normal” to the “spanish soap opera” looking one while we were watching TV. The bottom right of the screen has a red light that indicates that the remote is being used and it was constantly flashing during the times it was acting possessed or someone was inadvertently sitting on the remote. After taking out the batteries on the remote, it continued. In fact, it got so bad that we couldn’t do anything with the TV, we couldn’t even turn it off- we had to unplug it for a bit. Then it would be ok for a short while. After calling Samsung, they directed us to a local TV repair place. We described the problem and they contacted Samsung. The TV repair place didn’t even bother coming out, they wanted to order the part that was necessary to fix it.
Because of this issue and the flashlighting in the corners of the screen, we decided to return it. I honestly didn’t want a TV that had to be worked on after the second day. The TV repair place was really pressing us to get it fixed, but Amazon said they would not take it back if it had any work done on it. So we returned it as is.
We have been waiting for the refund to get the UN46C8000, and I started looking at the reviews and the comments for that one. Apparently, others have been having this problem with the other model as well!
So just be careful. I don’t know how well it works after being fixed, but it appears to be a very common problem with this years models.
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Watch jaw-dropping action leap off the screen with Samsung 3D technology. The UN55C7000 LED Television brings new depth and dimension to it all so youre not just watching the action, youre living it. Along with a visually stunning picture, it also features web-connected Samsung Apps so you can stream movies, play games, flip through photos, and more while you watch TV. And Real 240Hz Clear Motion …
