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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Dude, forget the internet. The myriad of opinions will drive you bonkers.
Just go to a store and look for yourself. At the end of the day, it's your eyes that you have to listen to. Spend a few hours and tour around. Don't trust one store, go see them all! Just try to compare similar quality brands. Like, don't compare a Panasonic plasma and then an Insignia LED and think that LEDs suck, and vice versa.
Edit: ^^ I have a plasma in a bright room. I got the anti-glare coating though, so I don't see any reflections at all. I even have a main 100W ceiling light that shines right in front of it, and I get no glare at all when the TV is on.  |
Definitely check out the sets yourself, but keep in mind that it's nearly impossible to see a set's optimal performance in a store. TVs on display are set to "torch mode" with the brightness, contrast, and sometimes color saturation cranked to the max. Grabs your attention from a distance but awful to watch close up.
I just picked up a Samsung LN46C630 on the cheap despite how awful it looked in the store. I chose it based on dozens of positive reviews and the deep settings menu. Got it home and, as expected, it looked pretty terrible. Plugged in some settings from the calibration thread in avsforum and it looks better set up correctly than
any LCD Visions had on display in torch mode.
As for plasmas anti-glare coating - anti-reflective plasma screens reduce the great contrast plasmas get. My advice is to stick with LCD if you've got windows in the room. LCDs are brighter and have really closed the gap between LCDs and plasma in terms of black levels and contrast recently.
