Plasma TV vs. LCD TV

More and more consumers buy plasma screens. Because, despite plasma TV with an excellent, sharp image, bright colors, good contrast. In addition, the plasma display delivers an image with no distortion and the case is so plain, it can be hung easily on the wall. Plasma TVs offer so a lot of advantages.

Entry-level devices, there are already well below 1000 Euro. They have a very good resolution, which is perfectly adequate for home use. The colors and shades of gray are also present in sufficient numbers. When buying a plasma TV should make sure, that the TV is HDTV-compatible, ie, he must have a minimum resolution of 1024×768 Pixel reach.

How well a plasma TV is, also depends on its luminosity. It is in candelas per square meter (cd / m²) measured. The rule of thumb, that the life expectancy of a plasma TV is the higher, the higher the value of the luminosity is. The plasma screen is also desirable, represent as many colors and shades of gray. It is recommended to buy a device, at least over a billion colors and 1.024 Grayscale has. A plasma TV, which may represent too few colors, it has to mix from different pixels, so that the fineness of the representation is lost. This combination of pixels is called dithering.

Plasma TVs are much older than the previous generation. A conventional TV has a life expectancy of about 10.000 Hours. Even cheap plasma screens make three times as long, better devices can even reach six times the life. In this period can luminosity of a plasma TV up to 50 Percent decline.

There are manufacturers of plasma TVs, the tuner and all other connections built into the plasma screen as it was also common in conventional television sets. Other vendors provide the tuner and the other connections in a separate box. Thus, all connections associated with a single cable with the screen. Especially with a plasma TV, hanging on the wall, looks beautiful from the, as if hanging a bundle of cables would. A plasma TV has the following section similar stelae: S-Video, FBAS-/Composite-Video, YUV and RGB. They are used to, connect analog video sources like a VCR. The digital interfaces are DVI and HDMI is only since the beginning of the year 2004.

Plasma TVs are more expensive than LCD sets, but characterized by a better image than the competition: the contrast is almost always more, the colors are more natural, the black areas look really dark black and do not appear dark gray, as in many LCD displays. The so-called trailing come with plasma TV still not as good. In addition, the plasma TV no problems with the visual angle, The picture shows from all sides the same good quality.