[OT] HDTV recommendations?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Jun 13 16:00:58 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 08:54:28AM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> My issue with plasma has been that they're supposedly prone to burn-in
> (though can be cleaned) if you leave a given image on too long.
> 
> For power, I've heard it depends on viewing. Overall higher, but an LCD is
> supposed to use more power on darker images (space movies anyone) because
> it's actually having to block the backlight.
> 
> I'm skipping the LED backlight and holding out for OLED TV's. It's finally
> gaining momentum in mobile devices etc so hopefully will scale up over the
> next few years...

They are certainly nice.  No backlight, true blacks, low power use,
what's not to like?  Oh right they are tiny and expensive at the
moment. :)

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