Mind to share where you got the info you quoted?     

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think Panasonic is the main plasma manufacturer at the moment and had invested heavily on the R&D of plasma technology, and others are focusing on LCD, including Samsung.

What do you mean by quality of Samsung Plasma? the built quality or PQ? In terms of PQ, Samsung Plasma are not well known for it, IMO, it is even behind its Korean competitor, LG. At least LG had produced a plasma series that received tons of praises, the PG60 in the North America market. (bear in mind though, the NA PG60 is different from the PG60 found locally). Samsung on the other hand, produces good LCD TV.

Samsung not in LCD? Samsung has been producing LCD TV for years and is one of the primary player. They even claimed to be the No. 1 LCD TV producer globally in terms of volume sometime ago.

Again, correct me if I am wrong, it seems to me that you have got the facts all mixed up

Samsung has been in plasma and lcd,Not now only in plasma.

Risk of burn-in from gaming happens when you only play static games for hours.

example of the static game? 

I dun think much of burn in for plasma, only image retention like those black bars at the top and bottom after watching those kinda movies.

What I do is remove the aerial connection and let my Panny Plasma display white noise for a few minutes before turning it off...kinda solve all problems so far.

I cannot use the Zoom features cause if I do that then I will sit down again to watch TV and never go to sleep 
My mind is oledi set...White Noise means time to sleep 

The only image retention i experience is the top and bottom bars.

I think this is normal to plasma. This is what we call image retention, and it varies between the make of plasma. Panasonic's plasma has less obvious IR if compare to the korean brand from my observation.

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Added on September 26, 2009, 8:31 am

Technically, black bars are not going to cause burn in, but if you watch movies with letter box format for very long hours, it cause the cells at the black bars area to age slower then those cells in the pictures part. After long hours of use, and when you swich to full screen images, you can actually see the difference in colour of the pcitures between the top / bottom of the tv and the other part. Theorithically, this effect can be permanent. Correct me if I am wrong.

Since most movies are in 2.35:1 format, what I do is keep a collection of TV drama series in hi-def (720p) format, such as the CSI, CSI:Miami series (that i truly enjoy). These dramas has aspect ratio of 16:9. I play an episode or two of these dramas after a few hours of movies in 2.35:1 format. Don't have to play them on the same day, you can turn off or TV and watch the series days later. I found this effective in getting rid of the colour differentiation at the bar areas of my plasma. I hope this trick can help.

Ok, what i gather here.. the cons and pros :-

Plasma pros : no lag/ghosting issues, wide viewing angles, slightly natural colors, most have tempered screen glass for durability.
          cons : burn-in, image-retention, slightly more power-consumption.

LCD pros : slightly less power-consumption, no burn-in, no image-retention.
      cons : lag/ghosting issue but hardly noticable(?), too much contrast lead to picture quality doesn't look natural(?), viewing angles not as good plasma(?), no extra protection for the screen.

(Referring to most common lcd/plasma which its not 100Hz and above, or not Kuro and etc.).

Anything i missed there?.. do correct me, if i list wrong there.. 
What i meant was, normally i watch movies its on "cinema ratio" mah.

I watch abt the same amount of Astro and movies, thats why im worry abt the those burn-in and image-retention, esp. some PS3 gaming.

Cheers

dunno about sammy panels latest models now, but the 3year old sammy 1024x768 plasma I had got IR but no burn in. tested it with 1-2 months continuous  viewing astro on 4:3 mode.. (black bars on left/right side)

when reset back to 16:9 mode, can see IR but after a few days all clear back to normal....

One more Plasma Cons - More reflective panel.

Anyway, dun worry so much about burn-ins or IR la.  Technically, they still exist but in real life, just practise common sense lo.  Like what most say, alternating the ratios helps.  I normally will zoom in too sometimes when watching BDs, coz i also just like my pic larger    For normal usage, the current gen of plasmas are more diificult to achieve burn-ins than you think

If still really ma fan, get a LCD, good also what 

If u get ur greyscale and gamma right, u can enjoy 3D pop on BD movies that are not 3D.

The technology for the current 3D is just not there yet. The fact that u use REd/Cyan specs causes serious colour issues that deter the enjoyment of the movies.

But 1stly, the 3D versions of the movies defer from the 2D versions to enable the 3D effect. Your mkvs are probably for the 2D portion of the movies so I doubt u can make that work!

3D movie like "Journey to the Center of the Earth"is using red+ green,so must use red + green 3D glasses..
POLAR EXPRESS 3D"is using blue + red ,so must use blue + red 3D glasses.. 

I recently bought Journey to the Center of the Earth Blu-ray United States 2-D and Limited-Edition 3-D . Enclosed in the BD discs are 4 of the 3D glasses and it was really an enjoyable experience watching it. Make sure to watch it at night and switch off the light, the 3D effect is really amazing thruout the movie. Try it...
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Journey-to-t...ay-Review/1270/

Here you go...sorry if the image is a bit blur, just using my HP

Here you go..

I am no sure where you can buy them. Maybe just buy this movie and you can use the same 3D glasses for other movies too.......

Hi there si fu-s =)

My dad is planning to get a new TV and his budget is around 4k +-500 like that.

I've read the thread about the difference in plasma and LCD. However I went to seng heng the other day and I've seem some of the plasma there, the colour doesn't seem to be very nice compared to the LCDs. Or maybe its just those plasma that I saw wasn't very good o.O

Anyway do you guys have any good TVs to recommend? Either plasma or LCD, at 42 or 47 inch, full hd.

Also I saw two samsung TV, one with 100Hz and one without and to me the difference is huge. But I want to know is when watching normal Blu-ray and astro, will it make a difference?