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    new tv.. reasurance needed. raist

    For gaming only.. not movies.. GAMING ONLY ..

    Panasonic TX-P50ST50B.

    I'm looking for reasons NOT to buy, cause its the best I can find in my budget.. and I'm maybe 2/3 weeks away from spending ..
    Pls tech heads let me know if I'm doing rite or wrong

    The Samsung 8000 series is ooh ahh and 2700 so pls don't go there
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    Re: new tv.. reasurance needed. raist

    Here's my reassurance. Panasonic are THE company to buy a tv from. So you've made a good choice imo. I have an LCD and a plasma by them, my parents buy from Panasonic, I've never heard anyone complain about the quality, reliability or long term performance of a Panasonic.

    As for the tech stuff? If it has a HDMI in socket, you should be all set!
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    Re: new tv.. reasurance needed. raist

    Vizio offers great prices for a great product. It uses the same exact parts as either Sony or Samsung, but for a much smaller price.
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    Re: new tv.. reasurance needed. raist

    This is the TV I got...
    I paid 699 at costco (awesome since they add an extra year to the warrenty for free!). It has been a terrific TV for videogaming. Yours seems to be almost the same TV as mine.... but almost 400 bucks more (on amazon yours is 1099 bucks, maybe you found a better deal elsewhere?)

    Like yours, mine is a plasma. You will love the 600 hrz refresh rate, means real smooth animations. I am not sure about yours, but with mine I had to really play around with the Display settings. In general Plasma TV's are less bright and vibrant. I turned off the stupid "energy saving" settings and that instantly brightened the image. If you play with it a bit, you will find a good setting. There are good websites that have exact settings to use if you dont wanna fiddle around with it.

    One thing to consider is the lighting in the room you are putting it in. Plasma TV's put off much more heat than LCD's so they use glass instead of plastic for the screen. This can be a big problem if you have a window behind you. The glare can get pretty bad. Something to keep in mind for sure, You may wanna consider a LCD if you play in a bright room, expecially if there is a window behind where you are sitting. It annoys my wife that I always close the curtains... them pin up a blanket over that. I HATE glares on the TV.
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    Re: new tv.. reasurance needed. raist

    Originally Posted by jook13
    This is the TV I got...
    I paid 699 at costco (awesome since they add an extra year to the warrenty for free!). It has been a terrific TV for videogaming. Yours seems to be almost the same TV as mine.... but almost 400 bucks more (on amazon yours is 1099 bucks, maybe you found a better deal elsewhere?)

    Like yours, mine is a plasma. You will love the 600 hrz refresh rate, means real smooth animations. I am not sure about yours, but with mine I had to really play around with the Display settings. In general Plasma TV's are less bright and vibrant. I turned off the stupid "energy saving" settings and that instantly brightened the image. If you play with it a bit, you will find a good setting. There are good websites that have exact settings to use if you dont wanna fiddle around with it.

    One thing to consider is the lighting in the room you are putting it in. Plasma TV's put off much more heat than LCD's so they use glass instead of plastic for the screen. This can be a big problem if you have a window behind you. The glare can get pretty bad. Something to keep in mind for sure, You may wanna consider a LCD if you play in a bright room, expecially if there is a window behind where you are sitting. It annoys my wife that I always close the curtains... them pin up a blanket over that. I HATE glares on the TV.
    I play on a 13" SDTV... lol
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    Re: new tv.. reasurance needed. raist

    hi, i bought a Panasonic Viera( i think this is what its called, and too lazy to google it), years ago when they first landed, and although it cost a bomb back then (£1500 for 37inch, Ouch!), i can still recommend the quality, better than all the other tvs ive compared it to.
    hope this helps.
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    IMO like Barry said, most LCD or plasma screens that have FULL 1080p hookup, will be great. Even if the default picture settings looks different from unit to unit, most can be tweaked to look near identical. I have a 42" RCA LCD, and a 40" RCA LCD, one was $250 at big lots and that one has beautiful picture. 1080p and LCD for the win IMO
    Plasma get get screen burn from repeated load screens or dashboard sitting etc. so u have to be careful with those.
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    I had thought they fixed the screen burn-in issues with plasmas.

    I use a 40-something inch Panasonic Viera (???) LED. It's great, other than it has no analog-audio output. :/

    I think it was $700, and it's a smart tv. So now I can use the Roku in my bedroom.
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    Re: new tv.. reasurance needed. raist

    Originally Posted by ShiftySamurai
    I had thought they fixed the screen burn-in issues with plasmas.

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    As far as I know, they did for the most part fix it. If you look really closely at the pixels. they are kinda blinking and slightly changing in colors, kinda like a snowy effect. Its not noticable till you get inches away from the screen, but supposedly it eleminates the screen burn. I have left my plasma on netflix overnight by accident quite a few times and have had no problems with it.

    I did have an LCD get screen burn in really bad a few years back, it was a cheap (for its time....) westinghouse. I have a buddy who works at best buy and he says that most tv's that have burn in problems now are LDS's.
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    Re: new tv.. reasurance needed. raist

    Originally Posted by jook13
    Originally Posted by ShiftySamurai
    I had thought they fixed the screen burn-in issues with plasmas.

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    As far as I know, they did for the most part fix it. If you look really closely at the pixels. they are kinda blinking and slightly changing in colors, kinda like a snowy effect. Its not noticable till you get inches away from the screen, but supposedly it eleminates the screen burn. /quote]

    I have a close friend who runs a TV repair shop and he's told me here since asking that your mostly correct jook. They have installed the blinking thing as u called it, the pixels switch colors slightly at different speeds for different brands and models, the faster the better, for the most part, this by the way is called the refresh rate, it's measured in MHz. My friend says refresh over 60 MHz will help the burn in, but screen tearing is likely unless u get over 120 MHz.. It is a way to refresh each specific pixel repeatedly. This helps tremendously with burn in but simply can not prevent it completely. If you fall asleep on Netflix it WILL likely eventually show up, if you put an all black channel on the tube and mess with the color settings , you may notice a slight burn in already...I'll hope u don't, but he says be careful because the only thing that causes issues in the plasma is a still color or image on the screen for long times. My friend has a newish plasma that has a permanent CNN logo in the corner lol it's all his wife watches.
    Hope this helps

    O and jook he also says higher brightness settings means more likely to burn, I love real high brightness on my tubes, hate not seeing dark spots, I'd be screwed with a plasma lmao.

    He told me this to simplify.
    Projection tv=easiest/cheapest to fix also can have an amazing color with HD due to around10,000 base colors instead of 3. But good ones are expensive. Also these have very little troubles associated.
    Plasma= some of the nicest pictures out there. We've talked about the problems. If you get a problem you may be better off looking at new TVs than repairs.=almost no cheap parts
    LCD=the better of both worlds? Few troubles, great pictures, reasonable to fix most common problems.
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