Rear projection or plasma???

betterbargains4u

Thinking of buying a new tv for living room. We want a large screen one.
Which is best in your opinion....rear projection or plasma?

arthurp8

depends if you have space for a big rear projection or not - they are huge.
Also brightness is not great on them, however picture quality can be pretty impressive...

betterbargains4u

arthurp8 wrote:

depends if you have space for a big rear projection or not - they are huge.
Also brightness is not great on them, however picture quality can be pretty impressive...

Thankyou.
We do have the space for a rear projection..just need to know which is best, really.

Blacksheep1979

rear projection are poor in bright light, infact they're not great in anything but darkness although better than they used to be. I'd personally spend the extra few £'s and get a plasma.

Sobraon

FWIW go into Currys and spend some time and compare them - worth taking a favourite DVD(?). My choice for standard definition TV (ie not SKY HD - you would know if you were paying for this!) is the Panasonic 42" (TH42PX60B)from Currys (product code 308211) now priced at £899 (although codes are available to reduce this further). However get John Lewis to 'price match' (undersales dept) and get JL's 5 year guarantee. This TV was about 2k a year ago, and about 1200 before Christmas at £899 its a great deal.

Avoriaz

betterbargains4u wrote:

..Which is best in your opinion....rear projection or plasma?

Absolutely no contest.

Plasma wins every time in my opinion. They are more compact, give a better picture in most viewing conditions, have a wider viewing angle etc.

I have never seen a rear projection that I liked.

Please don’t flame me if you are a RP fan. I am simply expressing my personal opinion.

Timmy

If you're tempted by RP then have a look at the Sim2 model. I not 100% sure they still make it but if they do you'll need to go to a dedicated av dealer rather than an electrical store to find one. You probably won't find a better RP tv than that.