Lcd Tv

I am curious and maybe some of you are more familiar with LCD tv's than I. Anyways my dad is looking to buy an LCD tv in the next couple months to replace our aging 60inch projection, but I have noticed that Plasmas and LCDs seem similar in size and price. I am familiar with HDMI and 1080p/i. However, I have a concern about that. I know my graphics card is capable of running 1920x1080 according to Nvidia. Could I run my videogames on a tv of this size (50+ inches) at 1920x1080? My goal is to run my tower as a media center of sorts. Ideally I'd love to run BF2142 at max settings on a big ass tv, an dplay itunes over the stereo system we have. Anyways is there any significant difference between plasma and lcd? I have a bias towards LCD because I have done a bit of research and it is said that plasmas are more fragile, heavier, and burn out more quickly. That and all we have in the house as monitors is lcds.

 

Well, with plasmas, you always risk a chance of a burn in. From what I remember, plasmas uses a bulb for its light; an LCD uses a backlight. With LCDs, it's not very common. Plasma is supposed to give you a better quality, but if you are not really anal about that, then either one is fine.

I do think LCDs are better for the price range for what you get. Life-span is up to 10 years (say if you use it for like 4-5 hours a day). If LCDs mess up, it's either within the 1st year usually, or after 4 years. If it doesn't, then you should be set to go for a long time if you take care of it.

For PC gaming, I don't have too much knowledge about it with an LCD tv. I say make sure you check the response time of the TV, like you would for a PC screen. The lower, the better. A lot of really good TVs, have a response time of 6ms average.

Hope this helps.

 

well my sony uses 5 ms response time.

 

I wouldn't play games or view anything other than movies or tv because they burn the image permanently into the screen

 

Who told you that? First time I have heard that.

 

I never heard that either because that's not true. I've played the 360 on my Sharp Aquos LCD several times and there is no such burn in.

If you had a plasma and played a game (like a sports game), where the score sits somewhere on the screen for a long time, that could cause a slight burn in when you change the channel. But even that is not that common depending on the TV. But to say permanently is very misleading.

 

One problem you would have is running a graphically intensive game at 1920x1080 resolution. The graphics card is going struggle...even if you have a top of the line card.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2926&p=4

at 1920x1200 most of these cards are still pretty quick.