LCD or Plasma TV for Gaming?

[DoubleTap]

Minute Made and dirty ass pans FTW!

A note on burn-in: I think it's pretty much solved, this TV is about 5 years old, and I leave it on the XBox dashboard with the XBox menu up watching who's online for hours while I play on the computer. No issues at all.

[ilu]

Well. If you want an awesome, deep and accurate colors, great black levels, excellent picture motion and free view angles. Go for plasma!

But if you want want picture clouding, backlight bleeding, a black what is actually a gray, restricted view angles, poor picture motion go for LCD.



Of course, Plasmas have also a few weak points. If you can't control the light what comes to the room, then you might suffer annoying glares on the screen and washed out image. But I guess that everyone have somekind of curtains in the room where the TV is.

But the biggest prejudice what people have is that Plasmas burn image. Nowadays it's very hard to burn image to your plasma screen. So it's quite a rare thing.

Image retention i.e. "temporary image burn" is possible if you leave static image for long time on the screen. But it will fade out completely after watching something else.

Also the power consumption isn't so big issue anymore. So your room isn't gonna heat up like a sauna.

Plasmas really suits for gaming. No doubt for that. I have owned LCD tv's and have now 50" Plasma. I wouldn't change it for LCD, no way. It has so much better picture quality and motion. And I haven't had any problems for playing games with plasma.

[icanrememberthis]

i use a 32 inch phillips lcd, idont know why but the smaller tvs around 30" usually seem to have the best quality picture..
however an led gets the job done also

[scoten7]

I hate the glare on a plasma screen tv. I would use led but can't afford it. LCD ftw

[ilu]

(08-19-2011 12:09 AM)scoten7 Wrote:  I hate the glare on a plasma screen tv. I would use led but can't afford it. LCD ftw

Well, it could be a big problem if you can't control the amount of sunlight in the room. In that case plasmas aren't an option. Sadly. Though more expensive plasma models have anti-glare filters, but don't know how well those work.

I can dim my living room very well, so there is no any issue. Otherwise I should have also pick LCD. LED's cost still way too much. You can't get a big screen with a fair amount of money yet.

[icanrememberthis]

i recently bought an led like 2 weeks agoo its alot more energy effecient cost an arm and leg tho i prefer it over anyother type of tv but its my opinion

[NOIREjunkie716]

Plasmas arent good for gaming cuz if the screen doesnt change for a while (Like if u press pause and then leave the tv for a little while) then the image will get burnt into the screen.

[ilu]

(09-06-2011 11:11 PM)NOIREjunkie716 Wrote:  Plasmas arent good for gaming cuz if the screen doesnt change for a while (Like if u press pause and then leave the tv for a little while) then the image will get burnt into the screen.

Well, you don't know what you're talking about. You obviously don't have any knowledge nowadays plasmas.

It may cause temporary image burn = image retention. Which will go away. But it's very rare that you can anymore actually make persistent image burn. Even if you leave static image for hours.

So please, don't make those false accusations.

[Fdrix]

(05-07-2011 01:53 PM)DefinitelyPsychotic Wrote:  Which do you prefer? I like LCD for Gaming. It doesn't burn an image into the screen!

I agree with you. I also like LCD For games.

[Colpini.rc]

I will give vote to LCD for gaming..

[james1]

I'm a big fan of "mighty" weapons because they'll allow for further customization based solely around the Weapons Master passive.

[jacob]

I love to play games on LCD.

[NelsonSleeper]

I prefer plasma. Because it has a good contrast ratio than LCDs. With the technology difference plasmas also durable more than LCDs. The only disadvantage is plasmas getting heat more than LCDs.