plasma or lcd?

Coming to LCD & plasma - plasma is definitely better in terms of brightness & contrast ratio(almost like a picture tube). However it is expensive. LCD is a lot more affordable and nowadays it has improved a lot.

However between LCD and the ordinary ("low tech") picture tube based TVs there's no contest as far as brightness & contrast ratio are concerned - picture tube wins hands down. Too bad, in India you don't find many (none?) high definition (16:9) TVs that use picture tubes - only available in LCD/plasma.

krishna,no, decision could not be reached

i visited several sales outlets,panny plasma is certainly good for tv channel viewing but i feel even lg plasma was good or even better,both in terms of picture quality and the looks of the pannel,besides i want a 5.1 channel audio in my tv and i doubt if these plasmas have,lg plasma was cheaper by 5k

as for lcd,lg jazz theatre has a 5.1 channel audio but in terms of picture,regarding hertz and reaction times,it lags behing lg scarlet,which has only a 2.1 channel audio,so its difficult to find a perfect tv,am also waiting for the new year sales

as for the home theatre,sony with 850 watts was excellent but i dont need the dvd player that comes along,so waht to do???,confused

will make the purchase in the new year,god willing

finally bought an ONKYO  hometheatre-base model 4 days back for rs.19,500,yet to set it up,poor me the EZONE  guys have bluntly refused to install it since i dont live in chennai,there was a huge sale in ezone and big bazaar,in ezone a 46 inch 5 series samsung lcd was priced at 66k at a discount of 30 %,thanks prasad for your valuable advices

Dear All,

Am connecting after a real long time.

This thread has been exceedingly informative, with excellent inputs from many of you, most notably KVSK Prasad. Thanks a lot for the same.

Well, I just read this thread and it seems technology is moving too fast.

I was looking for a small TV and have been recommended to go for LG 22LE5300 LED LCD TV. Would have loved to purchase the 26" one (LG 26LE5300) but the existing furniture wouldn't allow it.

http://www.lg.com/in/tv-audio-video/led-lcd-tv/LG-22LE5300.jsp

Prices seem to have really reduced recently. I am getting this offer from Rs.17,990/- and one vendor is also giving for Rs.17,000/-

It is having Contrast Ratio 10,00,000:1, USB 2.0 port, PC Connectivity, Response time 4 ms, HDMI (ver 1.3 deep colour) and HD Ready. Resolution is 1366 x 768, matching Krishna's recommendation. 2 rear HDMI/HDCP in provided.

I had almost finalized Sony Brevia KLV-22EX300 (http://www.sony.co.in/product/klv-22ex300) but when I asked my vendor he whole heartedly recommended LG 22LE5300 saying it is LED for the same price.

It was then that I read up on LCD v/s LED and remembered this thread

I would really appreciate your views on whether to go for LG 22LE5300 for 17K. Thanks !

P.S. Little off track, but had wanted to go for LG 26LE5300. But with the stand the height is around 18". My furniture only allows 17" height. The height of the 26" TV without the stand is around 16.5". Any suggestion to making a customized (wodden etc.) stand to mount the TV, so that it fits without the need of the stand would be most welcome.

Another funny-sounding query (but genuine from my side ): In traditional CRT TVs, the height v/s width ratio is quite differerent from the LCD/LED variants. In traditiaonaly CRT TVs, it is around 3/4 (height/width ratio) whereas in LCD/LED variants it looks like 3/5.

How is the dimension of objects (people etc.) projected on the screen maintained then ?

Jay, there are schemes for doing it - most common we see on 4:3 screens to accommodate widescreen content - it involves two black bars on top and bottom of the screen - called as Letter-Box.

To accommodate 4:3 content on widescreen TV, similar black bars are put on the sides. Other schemes to get rid of the bars involve stretching the 4:3 picture either uniformly, or in an adaptive manner, so that the aspect ratio is maintained at the middle of the screen, but picture is progressively stretched as it approaches the sides. The human eye/brain accommodates distortion at the periphery of vision better than at the centre, so this works.

Most LCD/Plasma/LED TVs have built-in design support for hanging TVs. Hanging TV on wall is common in commercial establishments. Check for your TV, you can hang it on walls.

If it it your own house, I would recommend going in for wall mounting, with matching home-theater speakers mounted at the proper locations (ear hight when sitting, all corners of the room, with the woofer near the TV.

I would also recommend putting a good quality desktop PC next to the woofer, with an HDMI out from the PC to the screen. Makes it very very easy to play movies, songs or watch internet video with good sound effects.

Thank you Krishna. Wall mounting facility is provided with the TV, but the furniture shelves are 17" deep and it would not be advisable to mount the TV deep inside the furniture slot only to wall mount it. But will explore other options as you suggested (another empty wall or mounting on a custom-made wooden stand which also fits in the furniture slot or a small 22" TV which can be placed as table-top inside the slot etc.). Thanks again.

Go for LED,lg is good

Jay, it will be interesting to get a door made to the 17" deep space, where all the cabling and other misc stuff (maybe a Home theater woofer too) in the space. The door could be hinged at the top, and can carry the TV fixed to it as if it were fixed to a wall. What do you say?

Thanks Bala and Krishna.

Well, we decided to move upper part of the furniture unit further up, by a couple of inches, which would result in increasing the height of the existing furniture slot. So we will be able to place LG LED 26" TV (LG 26LE5300) simply as a table top (on its own stand). Another advantage of this would be ease of shifting the TV to the bedroom (again as a table top) as and when required (we already have a cable point in both the rooms).

We're just figuring out how to prevent our 22 month old daughter from trying pull the TV ... But that should be quite manageable

Thanks again, am just happy that we will be able to get atleast 26" TV (the current CRT TV is just 14").