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Plasma, LED or LCD for Garage?
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Onewolf
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Plasma has the most glare/reflection and should be used in light controlled situations.
LED screens are just LCD screens that use LED for the backlighting instead ofl CFL. LED LCDs are generally better than older non LED LCDs.
LED screens are just LCD screens that use LED for the backlighting instead ofl CFL. LED LCDs are generally better than older non LED LCDs.
GYPSY400
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LED for sure.. I'm going to pull the pin on a TV during this years Black Friday sales
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Beemer533
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Whatever you get a good deal on will be fine.. Plasma will give you more glare generally, but some of the LED have pretty glossy screens as well..
Voi
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I would Google and see what LED has the most matte screen nowadays. I would also recommend a full articulating mount so you can move the TV a lot and angle it accordingly for glare. We have one in our workout room that we keep brightly lit and it helps a lot, especially since the TV in there is a more glossy LED.
It's the only fully articulating mount we have but it can be "hinged both ways and slid along the mount. And it can be pulled away from the wall and angled down.
I really like my plasma but I wouldn't put it in my brightly lit shop.
Here's an article from last Xmas shopping season.
http://www.cnet.com/news/best-tvs-for-very-bright-rooms/
It's the only fully articulating mount we have but it can be "hinged both ways and slid along the mount. And it can be pulled away from the wall and angled down.
I really like my plasma but I wouldn't put it in my brightly lit shop.
Here's an article from last Xmas shopping season.
http://www.cnet.com/news/best-tvs-for-very-bright-rooms/
jsharpphoto
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What direction does your garage door face? Yes plasmas have the most glare, BUT they have the widest viewing angle. If it's not going to get a lot of direct light, and needs to be viewable from anywhere in the garage, i'd go plasma. Don't listen to people talk about "burn in". That may have been an issue 12 years ago, but certainly not now.
bmh
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Just bought a Samsung Curved today. I would have bought another plasma but the tv manufacturers are phasing them out.
As for which is better...yes plasma's have a glare issue but they do have better picture quality. "Richer" color if you will.
As for which is better...yes plasma's have a glare issue but they do have better picture quality. "Richer" color if you will.
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What direction does your garage door face? Yes plasmas have the most glare, BUT they have the widest viewing angle. If it's not going to get a lot of direct light, and needs to be viewable from anywhere in the garage, i'd go plasma. Don't listen to people talk about "burn in". That may have been an issue 12 years ago, but certainly not now.
plus you get more TV for your buck with plasmas, in size and refresh rate.
if you need a TV mount and cables I would shop at Monoprice.
Hope it helps
tadder52
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Plasma's are all, but dead.
I just finished putting in a sports cave/home theater in my basement where a plasma would have been perfect -- light control, no windows to glare. I walked in dead set to buy a specific plasma after a pile of research, but walked out with a LED TV.
http://lcdtvbuyingguide.com/ http://www.cnet.com/topics/tvs/ If you're looking to do good research this is the places to start.
I just finished putting in a sports cave/home theater in my basement where a plasma would have been perfect -- light control, no windows to glare. I walked in dead set to buy a specific plasma after a pile of research, but walked out with a LED TV.
http://lcdtvbuyingguide.com/ http://www.cnet.com/topics/tvs/ If you're looking to do good research this is the places to start.
keelan
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Please, they're LED backlit LCDs. They are not LED TVs. That's like calling an old chevy an electric car because it has a battery under the hood. I know, the manufacturers are just as guilty of this stupidity, but if jimmy jumped off a bridge, would you follow?
Also the bit about control of groups of pixels vs. one pixel sounds like the kind of malarky spouted by best-buy employees trying to make the day's quota at the expense of a confused retired couple.
Finally, while I'm ranting and raving, I personally enjoy not having my senses saturated in the garage. Usually I have the radio on, but my eyes are focused on my work. I tend to do a lot of wood working, and I value my fingers. But that's just old fashioned me.
Also the bit about control of groups of pixels vs. one pixel sounds like the kind of malarky spouted by best-buy employees trying to make the day's quota at the expense of a confused retired couple.
Finally, while I'm ranting and raving, I personally enjoy not having my senses saturated in the garage. Usually I have the radio on, but my eyes are focused on my work. I tend to do a lot of wood working, and I value my fingers. But that's just old fashioned me.
Lassen Forge
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You want the one with the best sound system, because you'll be listening to it way more than watching it. If you aren't in a glarey spot get a plasma (whie you can, I hear they're going the way of the CRT), otherwise get what (a) sounds good, and (b) is cheap.
Something else - call your cable company, see if you can get a deal on a separate box for it. Nice not being in the middle of the Homestead 400 championships, and having the kid in the family room change it to Barney... that extra box saves on sledgehammer and bullet holes in the screen...
Something else - call your cable company, see if you can get a deal on a separate box for it. Nice not being in the middle of the Homestead 400 championships, and having the kid in the family room change it to Barney... that extra box saves on sledgehammer and bullet holes in the screen...
Falcon67
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LED or LCD. Whatever is on sale works. I would never buy a plasma - they used to eat power like crazy and they should run hotter than an LED or LCD unit. They are also heavier. I have a Samsung 40" LCD on this mount:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00155V210/?tag=atomicindus08-20
Works well enough. You need to tilt the screen down to get rid of the glare.
Shop carefully - "Black Friday" is more like shopper bait than sale any more. Sams has a great Black Friday deal on a 70" LED Vizio TV! Um, it's the same price as the same TV in Walmart for the last two months. Whatever. 60s and 50s are falling some, maybe $100 over last year.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00155V210/?tag=atomicindus08-20
Works well enough. You need to tilt the screen down to get rid of the glare.
LED for sure.. I'm going to pull the pin on a TV during this years Black Friday sales
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Shop carefully - "Black Friday" is more like shopper bait than sale any more. Sams has a great Black Friday deal on a 70" LED Vizio TV! Um, it's the same price as the same TV in Walmart for the last two months. Whatever. 60s and 50s are falling some, maybe $100 over last year.
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Scott V
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Consider the viewing angles also. You're not always going to be in one place like your family room. Different flat screen TV designs have differing viewing angle ranges.
kevinwilly
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Plasmas have the best viewing angle, black contrast, best/smoothest motion and best picture quality. But they are usually more expensive and harder to find these days. And heavier.
For a screen in your living room without direct light on them, if you go with anything OTHER than plasma you made the wrong choice, in my opinion.
For anything else, especially in a garage, just buy the cheapest tv you can find. Which will be an LCD. Don't get a smart or 3D tv unless you specifically want those features. And try to stick with a name brand (don't get Olevia or westinghouse or whatever nonsense they sell at walmart and target).
Stick with samsung, LG, toshiba, sony, visio (even though they dont make panels they still use nice stuff). Any other manufacturer is using a panel from one of those guys with REALLY cheap internals to save money. So the power supplies or logic boards just won't last as long. And the panels they use are commonly the "seconds" from the factory that didn't pass a more comprehensive quality control test. Even though they might be cheaper they are NOT worth buying unless cheap is the only goal.
For a screen in your living room without direct light on them, if you go with anything OTHER than plasma you made the wrong choice, in my opinion.
For anything else, especially in a garage, just buy the cheapest tv you can find. Which will be an LCD. Don't get a smart or 3D tv unless you specifically want those features. And try to stick with a name brand (don't get Olevia or westinghouse or whatever nonsense they sell at walmart and target).
Stick with samsung, LG, toshiba, sony, visio (even though they dont make panels they still use nice stuff). Any other manufacturer is using a panel from one of those guys with REALLY cheap internals to save money. So the power supplies or logic boards just won't last as long. And the panels they use are commonly the "seconds" from the factory that didn't pass a more comprehensive quality control test. Even though they might be cheaper they are NOT worth buying unless cheap is the only goal.
Voi
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Plasmas have the best viewing angle, black contrast, best/smoothest motion and best picture quality. But they are usually more expensive and harder to find these days. And heavier.
For a screen in your living room without direct light on them, if you go with anything OTHER than plasma you made the wrong choice, in my opinion.
Plasma's have been cheaper than LED/LCD TV's of the same size for years. Have the reports of their extinction caused their price to rise recently? I can barely find any more for sale so it's hard to check.
Agree with everything else you said. I have a 65" Panasonic Plasma that is a few years old now. Hoping it has a very long life so OLED can catch up to it by then.
for a garage, i just got an old crt tv for free. i'm not entertaining friends & family out there, but need something to occasionally watch.
panasonic quit making plasmas last year & samsung just quit recently, so (if you want plasma) try to find one while you still can. i'll add that a 50" plasma soaks up a decent amount of power...~150 watts iirc.
if you can wait a while, the 4k sets are getting a lot cheaper & look fantastic. i think the hdtv sets will probably start to be sunsetted within the next year as 4k becomes more affordable.
panasonic quit making plasmas last year & samsung just quit recently, so (if you want plasma) try to find one while you still can. i'll add that a 50" plasma soaks up a decent amount of power...~150 watts iirc.
if you can wait a while, the 4k sets are getting a lot cheaper & look fantastic. i think the hdtv sets will probably start to be sunsetted within the next year as 4k becomes more affordable.
Plasma's have been cheaper than LED/LCD TV's of the same size for years. Have the reports of their extinction caused their price to rise recently? I can barely find any more for sale so it's hard to check.
Agree with everything else you said. I have a 65" Panasonic Plasma that is a few years old now. Hoping it has a very long life so OLED can catch up to it by then.
What he said.
kevinwilly
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Plasma's have been cheaper than LED/LCD TV's of the same size for years. Have the reports of their extinction caused their price to rise recently? I can barely find any more for sale so it's hard to check.
Agree with everything else you said. I have a 65" Panasonic Plasma that is a few years old now. Hoping it has a very long life so OLED can catch up to it by then.
The days of cheap plasmas is coming to an end because you can't get "cheap" ones any more.
3-4 years ago there were nice ones and budget ones (that usually were only 720p). Now the only ones out there are the REALLY nice ones and they are always more expensive than the comparable LED screens.
And now with the LED tv's always being 240hz or some such nonsense, and some of them are back lit and some are edge lit and them not really advertising what is what, it's REALLY hard to tell what is good and what isn't. The 240hz means NOTHING if the processing for it is ****- and it usually makes things look strange when you force it to higher frame rates.
Plasma just always looks natural. I'm REALLY going to miss it when this current tv dies.
Miss_Sissy
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The days of cheap plasmas is coming to an end because you can't get "cheap" ones any more.
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Plasma just always looks natural. I'm REALLY going to miss it when this current tv dies.
Plasma is coming to an end because they can't do 4K with plasma. And it's coming to an end because they can't be turned up as bright as an arc welder, which they need to be to compete with the lights in the typical Best Buy.
I have a 65" Panasonic plasma, bought right when Panasonic announced they were getting out of plasma. No regrets on that purchase -- even though it was darned expensive.
Despite all of the plasma love, I would still recommend an LED TV for a garage. Chances are it will be used with lights blazing and plasma just doesn't work well in that environment.
abk241
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One more plus you get with plasmas is heat.
You can watch the game and stay warm as well.
Or you can tune it to the 'fireplace' station during the holidays and get just as much heat off it as you get from a real fireplace.
You can watch the game and stay warm as well.
Or you can tune it to the 'fireplace' station during the holidays and get just as much heat off it as you get from a real fireplace.
Playwme
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Just take whatever's in the house and put it in the garage. Then go buy a bigger, better, smarter one for the house.
That way you're making the purchase for the whole family, not just yourself.
That way you're making the purchase for the whole family, not just yourself.
Blown454ss
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Haha I just did that today
mygarageone
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Haha I just did that today
Yea , we are giving our selves a larger TV for Christmas and putting the smaller one in the grandkids rm
GYPSY400
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I just picked up a 48" LED for the garage at the best buy boxing week sale.
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