[ucla1995]

Went to my local A/V store today fully expecting to be sold on an LED (Samsung's looked the best to me, but I wonder about the build quality).
But the salesperson said all the guys in the store only buy plasma - that LED is for suckers - more expensive and worse picture quality.
What do you guys think? tia

[CollinsE90]

Panny Plasma

[BMW F22]

The salesperson told you the truth. LED is all marketing hype. Go with a Panasonic plasma and don't look back. If/when my Samsung plasma craps out I'm gonna replace it with another Panasonic (GT or something).

[achien]

iDTv is coming from Japan/Korea, just wait until Christmas.

[M3Bahn]

I found the opposite, I tried two different plasmas at first and hated the way HD channels looked on it so returned them and now have an LED.

No matter what you end up with, make sure they a good return policy.

Some TVs don't work well with certain cable boxes.

I learned to go with works in your own home setup and not pay attention so much to reviews and specs.

[Blake]

my LED samsung looks great. no complaints.

[AngelinIsRich08]

Depends where you're gonna watch it. If by a lighted area get the LED Samsung, the LCD. But I only have LCD's. Plasmas are dated and give terrible glares IMO.

[Freakazoid]

Originally Posted by AngelinIsRich08

Depends where you're gonna watch it. If by a lighted area get the LED Samsung, the LCD. But I only have LCD's. Plasmas are dated and give terrible glares IMO.

this, I have a 50" plasma. If you're by an area that gets a lot of sunlight, it can get REALLY annoying.

[san~man]

Originally Posted by AngelinIsRich08

Depends where you're gonna watch it. If by a lighted area get the LED Samsung, the LCD. But I only have LCD's. Plasmas are dated and give terrible glares IMO.

Explain what you mean by "dated"...

[CollinsE90]

Panny Plasma is the best TV on the market, Samsung makes great TV's, but Panny is winning at the moment.

[E90SoFlo]

Plasma looks great AS LONG AS YOU WONT HAVE GLARE! It glares like a Mofo.

[Augenbrauezug]

Love my led LG, except the damn trumotion 240 bullshit. Makes Avatar look so choppy unless I take it down to 120

[matthewk]

Big plasma TVs have better black than big LCD TVs, it's pretty hard to argue that.

[pmccut]

Plasma gets my vote for home theater. I use a 46" LED for third monitor - much clearer than plasma..but the dark movies look better on Plasma. Get what you like best in the store

[E90SoFlo]

Originally Posted by pmccut

Plasma gets my vote for home theater. I use a 46" LED for third monitor - much clearer than plasma..but the dark movies look better on Plasma. Get what you like best in the store

NOOOOOOOOO

get the bigger and more expensive one.

[ucla1995]

Originally Posted by E90SoFlo

NOOOOOOOOO

get the bigger and more expensive one.

[Wakka]

Originally Posted by Blake

my LED samsung looks great. no complaints.

+1

[turbosc297]

Panny vt60 or even gt60. Going to pull the trigger on a 55" gt next week because I love my 50" panny g25 so much, had a 50" g10 before that.
Go with plasma, you'll love it!

[number335]

I got a 60" Sony LCD. Didn't want to spend extra for an LED when I couldn't tell much of a difference in pic quality, especially when calibrated correctly. I would have bought a Panny plasma, but I have too many windows and didn't want to fight the glare. Plasmas have the best pic quality, don't have burn in issues anymore, but weigh more (if that's a concern).

[jlstyle]

I've had number of Samsung LED and Plasmas, from 46~58", all in PNC/PND/UNC series above 7000.

I must tell you plasmas do look better even in my high ceiling living room.
I like the pop on LED but I could get the same effect on the plasma and plasma does look 100% better on the movies. It just that white on plasma doesn't look clean as on LED.

But I do like 23watt consumption on LED compare to 53 watt on plasma, although it only comes out to be $3~5 different on monthly electric bill on 10 hours of playing time basis.

Also, 3D looks much better on Plasma.

[Brey335i]

Panasonic Plasma... punches well above its cost

[BTM]

Originally Posted by Blake

my LED samsung looks great. no complaints.

+1, had good luck with all my Samsung LEDs...very good picture and never had a quality or reliability issue. I don't watch many movies, where I agree the plasma is probably the better option there (provided the correct lighting as has been mentioned already). When I do watch a movie though, I've never once thought "man this would be so much better on a plasma"