With too many technologies and products flaunting the market, often many questions pop-up in my mind: Which is better, LCD TV or Plasma? Which one should I buy?...
Therefore, I have tried to figure out some important points that can guide you in making the right a choice...
Both these technologies have similar features, so the first parameter that comes into my mind is size and price. In case of price, LCD’s have a higher price tag associated with them as compared to plasma. However, LCD TVs give better performance and are capable of displaying high-definition images. It is technically difficult and often costly for the manufacturers of plasma to give a full high-definition function to models with a screen size of less than 50 inches. Plasma color richness and naturalness will prevail in rooms with lower to normal lighting. LCDs will be better in bright-lit rooms due to their inherent anti-glare technology and brightness. Moreover LCDs are also not much effected by the increase or decrease in air pressure. The plasma TVs still leads the size battle by a great margin.
The size factor will be taken over by the manufacturers this Christmas season and this will be a hard time for plasma manufacturers as this is the last chance for them to promote 42-inch models. By this time next year, probably, there will be no price difference between plasma and LCD TVs, as the prices are expected to fall by 30% for the LCD’s and just 15 to 20% for plasmas.
Which one you should go for?
Keeping the points discussed above, I would prefer to have an LCD display, as LCD HDTV displays will have a higher resolution per same size comparison than plasma.
Looking at the emerging demand for LCD’s over plasma, TVs, some major manufacturers have decided to jump into the race of LCD production. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and LG Electronics Inc. as well as Japan’s Hitachi Ltd. offer both LCD and plasma TVs. Matsushita also sells both products, although it heavily bets on plasma.
Via: CNN
