Buying a TV ... Advice needed..

geordie_ben

I'm looking to a buy a TV for my new apartment...

Plasma or LCD?

It's only going to be used for TV and movies, DVD at the moment, but upgrading to a Blu Ray player. Possibly a Wii now and again, but more for party games than hardcore gaming

With a budget of about £600

Any suggestions or advice?

Bmwm3gt2

You haven't said what size you are looking at but you can't go far wrong with Panasonic such as this http://www.richersounds.com/product/lcd-tv/panasonic/viera-txl42e30b/pana-txl42e30b

psyman17

If you are looking for something over 40" get a plasma.

geordie_ben

Anything between 42" to 47"

geordie_ben

cbrookes wrote: »

You haven't said what size you are looking at but you can't go far wrong with Panasonic such as this http://www.richersounds.com/product/lcd-tv/panasonic/viera-txl42e30b/pana-txl42e30b

Yeah I looked at that one in John Lewis yesterday, looked pretty impressive

geordie_ben

psyman17 wrote: »

If you are looking for something over 40" get a plasma.

Any reason why?

Heinz

PC World and Curry's are doing another Panasonic for £399.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004U9DC9S/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE (Amazon's dispatch time is ridiculous - I've only linked to it because I had that link stored).

psyman17

geordie_ben wrote: »

Any reason why?

Yeah you tend to get better picture quality on larger screens with a a plasma. LCD's can look slightly blurry on fast moving images & the blacks are never as good as on a plasma.

I dont think I'm able to post links but if you type lcd vs plasma in google you will find a good write up on the pros & cons of both on the techradar site (was the 3rd result down when I searched).

UncleZen

Watch a camera panning across a football/rugby field on a plasma and observe the vertical white lines briefly turning to a prism i.e. red, blue, green, yellow - thats enough for me to not buy a plasma and buy an LCD panel.

spike7451

I recently bought the one below (although sods law,the price is lower now than when I bought it,I paid £429!) & cannot fault it one bit.The picture is almost perfect even on SD,in fact some times the SD programmes look as good as HD! I can connect my laptops USB External HD to the TV & watch my movies,look at my pictures & listen to music.I can also hook up my lappy to it as well & use it like a monitor.
It's dead easy to set up & use & I also now run my surround sound thru the TV instead of the Sky HD so I don't need to use the TV's speakers at all,even tho the sound from them is quite good.

My neighbor below bought a 40in Panasonic for the same price I paid for the Samsung & his SD picture,compared to mine,is terrible even thru HDMI.

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/samsung-ps43d450-43-hd-ready-plasma-tv-10078456-pdt.html


And if you look at the same TV in Curry's & Dixons,the price for the same TV varies quite a bit.

geordie_ben

HD Ready or Full HD? We'll no doubt be buying a Blu Ray player