I’m thinking to buy a new TV for my room in the new house and I’m doing a little research about Plasma & LCD TV. Here’s three detailed response that I got from one of my fave W forums:

Neither.

But if you have to have one or the other then Plasma.

I would not purchase an LCD as they are rubbish. Crap blacks and blurred pictures.

There are some nice 1920×1080 Plasmas now, they have a true 1920×1080 resolution and do not resize the picture to fit a low res screen like older models.

No LCD could stand up to a good comparison due to their limitations. They have very poor display quality.

For those with LCD’s. Get yourself a good video of a man skiing down a snow covered mountain wearing a black coat. Play it on your TV after bringing some Plasma owning friends around so they can piss themselves laughing at your mistake.

Whilst that is true, bring in an LCD with 120hertz, wide color gamut (or whatever marketing term is called for you tv’s color), and a nice contrast ratio, say.. LNT5271, Samsung 51 inch, 71 Series, 25000:1 Dyno Contrast Ratio, 120 hertz. Must say, it is an amazing picture, or even a Samsung LNT5281 With LED Backlit LED 500,000:1 Dyno Contrast Ratio with pixel shift.

Whilst I am all for plasma over LCD, price comparison, LCD wins, I can get the best LCD on the market (consumer, 52inches, 120 hertz etc, i.e a bravia or samsungs flagship tv’s) and still it would be cheaper than a Plasma with 1080p.

Also to the pictures of the blur, again 120 hertz.. and to those with the image burn in’s on plasma, yes it is possible, look at any LG tv, they’re terrible for burn ins, you cant leave one going for 5 mins on the same screen without it burning.
I’ve sold alot of tv’s in my time, and still do.

and also, about the glare of the plasma screens, look at samsungs newer plasma series HPT/FPT (720p/1080p respectively), they’re coated with light absorbent screens so the glare is near nothing.

pixel burns must be a pain in the ass, everyone knows this problem has almost completely been fixed but still… same as the response time for LCD’s.

Both technologies have evolved (agreed, LCD in a faster way seen as 5 years ago it totally sucked balls for Tvs Mr. Green )
It depends on a million factors, I think the most important are pricerange, screensize, and the space between you and the tv (this actually should determine the size of your tv). I personally am about to buy a ~42″ inch 1080p plasma, cause I’m not THAT far from my Tv, and for the information I dug up this choice seemed the best.

We can conclude it’s an individual choice, with craploads of factors to consider. I’m pretty sure there’s little variation in imagequality in a 50″ plasma and 50″ LCD from the same make in the same pricerange.

And here’s a few simpler responses I got:

If you’re gaming, get an LCD. Also, if you watch sports a lot, get an LCD (just because i’ve heard burn-in happens where the score is and such)

If you’re going for quality in the color then go with Plasmas. I personally prefer LCDs because they don’t have burn-in.

LCD if you want your tv for a longer time
Plasma if you like big sizes

just depends on what you like to watch, if its gaming or sports go with plasma.

plasma is better for watching movies or TV. LCD is good if you sometime want to connect your PC to a large LCD.

As you can see, I received some very interesting responses and after doing a little more Googling, I have decided that I’ll get an LCD TV because it lasts longer