Ibnu Asad

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.

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I’ve just recently received a letter from the “JABATAN LATIHAN KHIDMAT NEGARA” The letter indirectly orders me to report for the national program

Anyways, I’m sure most of you should already received the letter by yesterday and if you don’t hear anything on Monday, that means you were not selected…but wait…you could still be selected for the third batch.

I have unconfirmed reports from my friends that some people who were not initially selected for the program suddenly got selected when they checked via sms last month. So if know you were not selected when you check the first time…I don’t recommend you to check again

It seems that all the rumours about SPM results coming out before the election is false. It turns out that the SPM results will come out a few days after election but before the second batch PLKN starts.

Some say that the result will come out on the 13th March and some say maybe 1 or 2 days earlier or later. I don’t really know who to listen but I’ll be sure to prepare myself right after the election finishes

Good luck to all!

EDIT: It is now confirmed that the result will come out on the 12th of March 2008

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Yesterday, I went to the cinema to watch Vantage Point and the movie was great! The format of the movie is quite interesting because it gives a different perspective or angle of the movie based on the characters. To watch this movie, you really have to concentrate on the details because they will actually ‘rewind’ a scene and play it back again with another character and another angle.

This one of the best action movies that I like…definitely BETTER than Mission Impossible

As you might know, my family has bought a new house and we’ll be moving out somewhere around this year. The plan was to move out on early January but since the house has yet to get a CF, we were not able to get the house keys.

Anyways, the house has been recently approved and has a CF and we’ll be getting the house keys in the couple of days. Looks like I’ll be moving in to the new house before I go to PLKN. We have a lot of stuff in the current house and I think this time my parents would agree to get a moving truck rental.

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