I could not stand the old plasma.... with around 60-65Hz refresh rate.... My brain/eyes will not sense the throbbing refresh rate if it was 75Hz and above. Newer ones with above 100Hz -700Hz are great.

A great disadvantage of plasma is most panels are not true 1080p.. but lower or stretch resolution panel. There is no denying Plasma has better range and contrast and picture quality. Tri colour LED panels (not white) will probably beat it, but these are very expensive (the very high end SONY/SAMSUNG LCD LED panels).

Optiplex330... both plasma and LCD are digital panels, Plasma being less sharp is probably because the panel your looking at is not a true 1080p panel. If both LCD/LED panel and plasma panel are at 1080p, both are just as sharp.

Aside from back-light being CCFL or LED... there is little difference between the LCDs... just that LED panels may incorporate the latest tech in LCD tecnology, better contrast, better colour reproduction, faster panels. Switch the LED backlight to CCFL you essentially get/view the same thing. White LED has more advantage than disadvantage than CCFL. Tri colour LEDs has almost no disadvantage (except for OLED panels, if they last).

This post has been edited by BeastX: Nov 15 2010, 06:55 PM

You can also further split LED to "Tri colour LED" or "White LED"