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Which is a better buy, LCD, LED, Plasma or DLP?
- Thread starter Engr Tech
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MaxHeadRoom
- Joined Jul 18, 2013
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For what application? What environment?
Max.
Max.
DLP is now only used for projectors and plasma is pretty well obsolete.
LED is not a display type (except for billboards and scoreboards), it is just the way most modern LCD displays are illuminated (previously they used fluorescent back-lighting).
My understanding is that the best flat-panel display for color accuracy and brightness is OLED. Of course it's also the most expensive.
LED is not a display type (except for billboards and scoreboards), it is just the way most modern LCD displays are illuminated (previously they used fluorescent back-lighting).
My understanding is that the best flat-panel display for color accuracy and brightness is OLED. Of course it's also the most expensive.
Until just a few years ago, I would have recommended plasma but I think LED (and OLED) technology has overcome some of its shortcomings and has now surpassed plasma. If money is no object, I agree with @crutschow that OLED is the latest greatest thing.
But where I live, I can find a DLP television being given away almost every day, even HD sets. If saving money were my main concern it would be hard to beat an HD DLP TV for free. It may not be long before plasma TVs start showing up cheap or free. I love my old Panasonic 720P plasma, but I could get a bigger, brighter, better replacement for 1/3rd of what that plasma cost.
OLED is superior to everything. Better (infinite) blacks, brighter, more saturated color, and a dynamic range limited only by the underlying digital hardware. Lower power, too.
It is also very expensive.
As costs come down, I believe OLED will become the primary display technology except for the cheapest of products.
It is also very expensive.
As costs come down, I believe OLED will become the primary display technology except for the cheapest of products.
I have been told that plasma TV's can get a burned spot if the same thing is displayed in the same place on the screen continuously. This happens in TV stati0ns where the monitors have the station's logo (bug) on the screen all the time.
Have you seen any signs of burned areas on your TV?
No, but for the reason you mentioned (and power saving) it shuts itself off fairly quickly if there’s no signal. And my BD player goes to a moving logo ‘screensaver’ if it’s paused for long. So my plasma has never seen rough duty where burn-in would be an issue. And I seem to recall that models before mine were more affected, that the problem was largely solved by the time I bought in.
The top of the line options are Samsung’s Quantum Dot Technology (long life and excellent color anf very good blacks.
LG has a very good OLED. It is still better suited for mobile device displays because the screens only last two to 3years of normal use before the blue pixels start to fail. The blue is enough energy to break organic bonds so they effectively destroy themselves over time.
I would go with the Samsung if you are looking for the top of the line.
If you are looking for a standard, LED backlit LCD display. Get 120 or 240 hz update speed. Be careful in the showro9m. They like to show examples with slow motion video. Ask for a video example of a sporting event. Watch for pixelation in the background on screens with a lot of motion. Also look for poor gradients of gray on dark scenes.
LG has a very good OLED. It is still better suited for mobile device displays because the screens only last two to 3years of normal use before the blue pixels start to fail. The blue is enough energy to break organic bonds so they effectively destroy themselves over time.
I would go with the Samsung if you are looking for the top of the line.
If you are looking for a standard, LED backlit LCD display. Get 120 or 240 hz update speed. Be careful in the showro9m. They like to show examples with slow motion video. Ask for a video example of a sporting event. Watch for pixelation in the background on screens with a lot of motion. Also look for poor gradients of gray on dark scenes.
That is from the marketing team. A dead pixel in OLED is a bleached pixel or red-shifted pixel and marketing is willing to say they are extended. The R&D team is still looking for solutions. Buy what you want.
Samsung also claims they are going all in on quantum dot but they are still researching OLED -mostly for mobile device displays.
Well, yeah. Where else do you think product info comes from?
Talking to their R&D teams, looking at their patents, listening to their research presentations, reading their annual reports, talking to their competitors, talking to their other suppliers.
I was technical liaison to Samsung and LG and many other display producers for the past 15 years (one of more than two dozen industries I supported).
Welcome to AAC.
I don't know why, but you committed a common newbie thing of doing a necro-post to an old (over a year) thread.
It's unlikely that the TS (thread-starter) is still interested in an answer.
But you made some good comments, so keep posting answers to some of the more recent threads if you feel you have something to contribute in answering the TS's question.
