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Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

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Old 03-03-2009, 7:58 AM   #31
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

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plasmas lose half their brighness after a certain amount of time. Its something like 14 years (if you was to watch it 24/7 365days a year.)

The maximum life is 60,000 hours which is 6.5years of 24 hour use.

They have a noticeable decline in image after 2years or less. But LCD is the same.


I am personally very sensitive to LCD motion smear, but less sensitive to the issues with Plasma. But when gaming you don't really notice the issues anyway.
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Old 03-03-2009, 4:54 PM   #32
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

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I just think this post should highlight to the original poster that no matter what other people say, or what spec sheets you can find on the net to 'compare' how good a TV is. Nothing beats seeing a TV operating first hand
and deciding whats best for you based on what you can see with your own eyes.
Agreed, I think the only good advice that ever results from these type of threads is for the OP to go to Currys, Comet, etc... and ask to see both TV's with a 360 attached and decide for themselves.
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Old 03-03-2009, 7:16 PM   #33
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

Panny will out do the samsung in nearly every way.
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Old 03-03-2009, 7:29 PM   #34
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

Of course a Kuro will out shine everything else .
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Old 03-03-2009, 7:35 PM   #35
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

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image retention is not a issue with plasma's anymore. (that was so 5 years ago :P)

Im a panasonic man and have the pz80 and love it

Response time is a big thing in my eyes, and all Panasonic are 0.001 ms.

Plasmas are better at producing fast motion pictures/viewing angles/response rate/colour reproduction. As LCD's have higher response time the pictures appear fuzzy when they deliver fast moving images.
LCD's have a slight edge when it comes to power consumption and weight.

Panasonic PZ range has a contrast ratio of 30,000:1 and dynamic contrast ratio is 1,00,000:1.Pioneer's Kuro range has similar specifications.
Plasmas and LCD all have around the same panel life now.
+1

I cant believe the mis-information banded about plasma still.
Either of those set's will give you a good pic.
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Old 04-03-2009, 12:50 AM   #36
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

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+1

I cant believe the mis-information banded about plasma still.
Either of those set's will give you a good pic.
Its probably due to the huge userbase skew of LCD's versus plasma install base out there. Indeed neither of those sets will display anything other than a beautiful picture anyway.
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Old 16-08-2009, 7:54 PM   #37
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

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That's because your eyes are obviously sensitive to it. If you see it on one plasma, you'll see it on all of them.

Some people can't see it at all, yet someone else using the exact same tv will spot it immediately. It's entirely user dependant.
Not entirely true. I have phosphor trails on my panasonic G10 and i dont see them at all on my brothers cheaper LG plasma. Think panasonic suffer from them a bit more than others but only if you're susceptible!!

I keep telling myself that the great PQ and HD outweigh the xbox performance but it;s still driving me mad!!!
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

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Just dont get Plasma. If you want picture quality go for LCD and also try and get one which has the highest VGA resolution (pc cable) as your Xbox supports modes higher than 1920x1080 (1080p). As ive generally found the VGA cable for 360 better than the HDMI but thats just personal opinion.
Absolute nonsense, have a browse at the lcd/plasma forums and its pretty much common knowledge pioneer kuro plasma's are as good a display as you get. I had a sony bravia lcd before it and the kuro is in a different league.
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

I suffer from phospher trail sensitivity, and some sets are definately more prone to it that others.


Plasmas can definately outperform any LCD, but I prefer LCDs.
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

Both me and my mate have a sammy slightly older model, mine looks lovely at least to my eyes with an xbox 360 through hdmi, my mate's doesn't look too great though but he's using his 360 through component, sd tv on both is ok but not fantastic.

I can't see how anyone can comment here unless they have owned or still own both the sets you mention, it's easy to state rumours from elsewhere, it's a different thing altogether to state facts from your own comparisons, do some research and make your own mind up i'm sure whichever you pick you'll not be disappointed because you won't have the opportunity to compare the two
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Old 16-08-2009, 9:30 PM   #41
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

Personal preferance but I have the Samsung and the set is just out of this world. Gaming wise its superb, if you settle on the Sammy hit me up and Ill give you my settings which I got from a calibration.
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Old 16-08-2009, 10:33 PM   #42
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

The best tv for hd gaming is mine.
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Old 17-08-2009, 2:07 AM   #43
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

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The best tv for hd gaming is mine.
At that price you would think so, but you'd be wrong.
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Old 17-08-2009, 6:58 AM   #44
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Re: Which Of These HDTV's Will Produce The Best PQ With X360 Games?

I've seen too many broken Samsung TVs to ever spend more than £500 on a Samsung.

I've even seen some of the new LED models develop terrible backlight flicker and colour bleed within weeks. Whether this is just poor quality control on behalf of Samsung or a common issue with all sets I am unsure of.

Although I do agree a working Samsung can produce a stunning picture, the reliability puts me off ever purchasing one.
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