LCD or OLED? - The TV Thread

**Giants4Natic** · 09-12-2011, 04:52 PM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

Originally posted by NC State-31 UNC-27

I got a Samsung 59d6500 plasma on Friday. Happy with it, though it buzzes pretty loudly.

My first 59D7000 buzzed like crazy and I had to return it via Amazon and the second was much better but still buzzed a bit.

**bigfnjoe96** · 09-12-2011, 05:14 PM

Originally posted by Blzer

I understand that, but basically what I meant was this:

With my LCD screen, if I lower my brightness level then I will get deeper blacks (not saying much), but the trade-off is that those blacks will really crush so that I can't discern shadow detail. I could always just raise the brightness, but then there go my "deep" blacks.

With a good plasma screen, I can still have my brightness setting relatively higher than I would need with an LCD, and yet have much deeper blacks. Raising this brightness will allow for good shadow delineation, while I can still have inky blacks (maybe not to .0001 standards, but still very dark).

Blzr you are correct. Lowering brightness on an LCD, to achieve deep black levels will result in crush. No matter how you set gamma. That's the nature of CCFL LCD.

Fast Forward to LED LCD & you get better black levels. Then you have Edge-Lit LED & Full Array LED. Between these 2. You'll get Plasma like Black Levels from Full Array LED when it uses a technique called "Local Dimming"

Right now the Best Full Array LED are Sony hx929 & Sharp/Pioneer Elite

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**Blzer** · 09-12-2011, 07:33 PM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

Originally posted by Giants4Natic

Blz on your LCD, have you tried lowering the gamma instead of brightness? maybe this would help you get the level that suits you.

What I have is suitable, for this television. All I was saying was that these blacks just don't get very dark, at least compared to that of a plasma. I shouldn't even try and replicate that image, so I'll play to the LCD's strengths instead.

**Giants4Natic** · 09-13-2011, 09:23 AM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

Originally posted by Blzer

What I have is suitable, for this television. All I was saying was that these blacks just don't get very dark, at least compared to that of a plasma. I shouldn't even try and replicate that image, so I'll play to the LCD's strengths instead.

Yea Plasmas have better black levels but like BFJ stated the higher end LCD or LED have come close to matching the Plasma black levels.

**davehughes14** · 09-16-2011, 12:25 PM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

Just bought a 60" LG Plasma and am wondering why and how vital it is to watch non HD programming in the 16:9 format and not the 4:3 format so the whole screen is filled up with picture. Will I harm my TV if I don't do this? Thanks!

**GAMEC0CK2002** · 09-16-2011, 05:48 PM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

Originally posted by davehughes14

Just bought a 60" LG Plasma and am wondering why and how vital it is to watch non HD programming in the 16:9 format and not the 4:3 format so the whole screen is filled up with picture. Will I harm my TV if I don't do this? Thanks!

You really want to try and take up the entire screen with a brand new plasma. You want the phosphors to age evenly. The main thing is to make sure you lower the contrast to something in the 50-55 range....60 at the highest. That way you virtually eliminate the remote chance of burn-in from falling asleep and leaving a static image up.

You are likely to see some image retention but that is normal and goes away very quickly.

**RoyalBoyle78** · 09-18-2011, 05:19 PM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

My choice is still Plasma , my 50' LG Plasma is still very beautiful as it was when I bought almost 2 years ago, my gaming looks fantastic on it, I also have a LG 30' crt HDTV and that picture is still amazing, CRT produced the blacks blacks to date, and my plasma comes close to it, I'm not a big fan of LCD at all.

**jmood88** · 10-03-2011, 09:33 PM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

Just bought the Samsung PN51D7000 and I managed to get it for over $400 off thanks to Vanns.

**Giants4Natic** · 10-07-2011, 05:13 PM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

Originally posted by jmood88

Just bought the Samsung PN51D7000 and I managed to get it for over $400 off thanks to Vanns.

Great choice man. I had that one before trading it in for the 59 when Amazon had a great great deal

But when gaming, use only 16:9 and not screen fit. This allows you to enable the pixel orbiter which protects against burn in or IR

Playing Madden caused me to get horrible IR of the score ticker on the top left which is still there 2 weeks later and it is not going away as easy as I thought

**Blzer** · 10-07-2011, 05:47 PM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

Originally posted by Giants4Natic

Great choice man. I had that one before trading it in for the 59 when Amazon had a great great deal

But when gaming, use only 16:9 and not screen fit. This allows you to enable the pixel orbiter which protects against burn in or IR

Playing Madden caused me to get horrible IR of the score ticker on the top left which is still there 2 weeks later and it is not going away as easy as I thought

Just wondering out of curiosity (and how well it handles it), but did you do any hours of break-in slides when you first got the TV set?

**GAMEC0CK2002** · 10-07-2011, 06:04 PM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

Originally posted by Blzer

Just wondering out of curiosity (and how well it handles it), but did you do any hours of break-in slides when you first got the TV set?

Wondering the same thing as well. Also, what was your contrast setting?

**jmood88** · 10-07-2011, 06:20 PM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

Originally posted by Giants4Natic

Great choice man. I had that one before trading it in for the 59 when Amazon had a great great deal

But when gaming, use only 16:9 and not screen fit. This allows you to enable the pixel orbiter which protects against burn in or IR

Playing Madden caused me to get horrible IR of the score ticker on the top left which is still there 2 weeks later and it is not going away as easy as I thought

Thanks for the tip, I'll make sure to remember that once it gets here.

**Giants4Natic** · 10-08-2011, 12:16 AM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

Originally posted by Blzer

Just wondering out of curiosity (and how well it handles it), but did you do any hours of break-in slides when you first got the TV set?

Yes I did, 100 hours running the slides. Very unhappy but I guess I have to continue running the orbiter until I clean it out. It is better then before but still enough to bother me

**Giants4Natic** · 10-08-2011, 12:18 AM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

Originally posted by GAMEC0CK2002

Wondering the same thing as well. Also, what was your contrast setting?

Believe me I ran all the break in scenarios with low contrast and light.

After 100 I tweaked them to my liking but IR will happen regardless if you have a still image on screen like Madden long long long score board.

I played Madden a long time that day and noticed it the next day

The 2K one showed a bit but was done within a day. Just the madden one but mostly where the teams score is because it is back dropped in dark tone which shows more.

55 · 10-08-2011, 07:58 AM

Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread

I just bought my girlfriend a Samsung LN46D630 two days ago. I got it on sale for $639 marked down from $999 at Worst Lie. I'm no longer an LCD fan, but she is a real hippie when it comes to sucking up electricity and wanted an LCD so I grabbed her the best possible one that I could. It's crazy to think that just three years ago a comparable set cost $2000+.

In other news, the PN64D7000 is still kicking *** and taking names. By far the best TV I have ever owned.

LCD or OLED? - The TV Thread

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