Personally, I can not stand the inferior picture quality of LCD. It's either Plasma or LED. Plasma got burn mark and reflective screen. LED cost far too much and too harsh to my eyes.

I read somewhere Plasma Hz and LCD Hz are very different thing. And regardless of what Hz they talked about, when it comes to motion blur, Plasma almost always beat LCD. Correct me if I am wrong.

Yap, same here. Didn't know the different and don't trust the advertisement and salesman talk (only pushing what's good for his pocket and this no good, that no good etc) I too did side by side comparison on PQ. Once I understood what is tru-black, there is no going back to LCD for sure when watching movies. IMO, LCD is shockingly inferior but LED too expensive. My No.1 problem with Plasma is reflection and the burn mark does worries me a bit.

Watching Bluray, there is no doubt the Plasma has the big 'wow' factor, absolutely great.

But comparing CRT (one of the best from the old days, a big Sony) vs Plasma watching DVD, I somehow got the feeling it's better off watching CRT. And I suspect, when watching Astro or normal Satellite program, it may be the same or worst. Anyone else got this type of feeling?

BTW, I was watching the Panasonic 50U and the Samsung 6500. Both the same.

This post has been edited by Optiplex330: Nov 26 2010, 07:16 AM

I don't understand. DVD is 520 lines. HD Ready Plasma is 720 line and Full HD is 1080 line.

So regardless of which plasma you use, both have to process the DVD's 520 to display picture. So how can HDReady be better than FullHD in viewing DVD?

I didn't know DVD is 480 lines because this wikipedia site mentioned 520 lines.

To display picture on 1080p TV, you have to upconvert from 480 to 1080

To display picture on 720p TV, you have to upconvert from 480 to 720.

So in either case, both have to undergo conversion. So why is it converting to 1080 is worst than 720?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_resolution

Now does anyone know how many lines are the transmission from station like Sun TV, CCTV etc? I don't seem to be able to find those information and my Mandarin is only ground level
http://www.tv14.net/china-sun-tv/

This post has been edited by Optiplex330: Nov 26 2010, 09:04 AM

True purist now discard CD and go back to analog LP turntable.

I am slowing coming to the conclusion, for watching DVD, it may be better to watch it on CRT tv and not HD TV simply because native beats scaling anytime.

Medically speaking, the older a person gets, the more sensitive are their eyes to light. So what appear OK to a youngster may not be OK to an elderly.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/24/technology...deals/index.htm

Seen Transformer on a LED lately and yes, I get that same feeling. I would describe it as "digital look" whereas the Plasma has that "organic look". CD music and LP music gave me the same feeling.

Likewise, comparing Plasma from Samsung and Panasonic gave me the same feeling.

I think the worst fear of someone who are into Plasma is for all manufacturer to cease production of Plasma. Should that happens, I think someone may start crying in the street

Allow me to make a guess. You must be below 40 years old. Correct?