Buy 3D or normal?? Recomendations and help please

NMSE12

Hi we currently have 40" Samsung LED seeries 7 (the one with the internet and games built in) an looking for an upgrade due to wanting a TV in our bedroom so looking for a new "main" tv for downsatairs. Should we buy 3D or another HD tv? If we buy 3D which is best Plasma/LED/LCD? Ho about branding? heard Panasonic are best for 3D?
Any help apreciated thank you!

toastydave

Only you know whether you want 3D or not!

Personally, I feel its a bit of a gimmick, theres not much stuff around in 3D and the technology is still very much in its infancy. can you really see you and your Friends/Family sitting around in (expensive) glasses to watch the TV?

I would just go for the best Picture/Sound unless you get a very good deal.

Panasonic plasmas are considered to be the best, Samsung seem to make the best LCD

At the Moment LED and LCD are the same screen technology, LED is really LED/LCD and just LCD is Florescent tube/LCD, to be clear both use a back light to illuminate the picture you see and the LCD just lets light through when you want to see it. in LED the backlight is made by white leds, in LCD the backlight if florescent tubes.

Plasma works more like the old tvs, it only directs power to the part of the screen you want to light up, because of this the blacks on plasmas are better, because when the screen is black, that part of the screen is truly off

sabz3008

Don't bother with a 3D TV yet...I purchased two during Xmas, and I regret it...I never ever use it as it gives me the greatest of headaches, and there's just not much 3D content out there, nor is the picture quality amazing. You can probably spend half as much and get a way better standard TV with more specs! (minus the 3D)...

There's no 'BEST' , but of course, LED TV's are probably the best - they're small, more energy efficient, etc.. , but avoid LED TV's which only emit light through the sides... LCD TV's are great for all types of viewing and lighting conditions. Plasma's generally aren't good where there's sunlight...There's loads of articles about LED v LCD v Plasma, just have a look on CNET or something.

Anyway, in terms of 'BRAND' - There's no 'BEST' - They all use the same technology, it's up to what you want and what specs they have. Read reviews on CNET or other websites. IMO, the best TV ever built is the Pioneer Kuro!

thescouselander

The main thing that puts me off 3D TV is that I have never seen one working in a shop - always due to the fact the glasses are broken. The glasses are expensive too so to me that says these things are trouble. The other things is the missus gets bad headaches with 3D so cant watch it.

I'd agree with the others - 3D is just a gimmick.

Richie-from-the-Boro

3D or true 3D ?, if they want to impress me, when they are able to model the image in all three physical dimensions, I'll begin to take an interest. If I can, from where I'm sitting, look around the scenery / characters just like I can now look around the back of this monitor - I'll begin to take notice of 3D, until that time arrives it's really only [ Emperor's~New~Clothes ] 2D with knobs on. It's just a Paul Daniels effect, a senses based experience not reproducible in an ordinary home, even in a ' home theatre environment '. Until aliEnRIK buys one of these sets I won't even look at the subject again.

Seeing 3D in a megga cinema [ iMAX ] where a persons whole field vision [ including the peripheral ] is saturated with images and in addition directional sounds fills other primary senses makes me wonder if it's ever a home based experience - even wearing electric goggles.

I've seen 3D TV's, and wearing my cost benefit head 23 months after I first commented on this .. .. I still think this is gimmick-ery.

I still have (somewhere) an 10 to 12 year old ASUS video card complete with 3D glasses that used to plug in to the back of the video card.

The kind of people who buy 3DTV are the same same individuals who used to pay £100 + for HDMi cables .. .. same ' snake oil ' different bottle '. If I was on ' footballer status ' money I might buy one for my kids to give them bragging~rights, but that would be the purpose for the spend .. .. not the 3D [ cough 2D with knobs on ] output

DCFC79

i wouldnt touch a 3d tv and i probably wouldnt do as it just give me headaches, id stick with a hd tv

moonrakerz

I was looking at a 3D Panasonic the other day (just out of curiosity !).

The picture quality was superb - BUT, I thought the 3D effect looked completely "phoney". It looked like layers of 2D content just placed on top of each other - just didn't look natural at all ! No depth to it, just ........ difficult to describe......... "unnatural".

No thanks, not for me !

OK_Sauce

Looks like a no then!

diable

How long have you been together with your partner as having a TV in the bedroom shows that boredom has set in ;o))))))

LucianH

IMO, 3D only works if the screen fills your field of view - much like it does when you're in a cinema. Unless you have a huge screen, or sit just a few feet away you'll never get a good effect and I can't see it adding any value whatsoever.

TimothyEBaldwin

3D TV can induce nausea and vomiting in some people due to the depth perceived due to the difference left and right eye images being different to the required focusing of the eyes, this is more severe than in 3D cinema.

IMAX has another problem, due to the screen extending into peripheral vision it can cause motion sickness due to the deference of observed motion, and motion sensed by the ears. This is worse with films in which the camera is not kept steady.