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Vigo:
A few years ago I bought a 50 inch tv and home theater, both defective garbage. At least the TV was part of a recent class action lawsuit, and I will be getting $300 of it back in the mail soon. I am going to buy a new replacement TV, and I am pretty strongly leaning to Panasonic plasma. I don't know if is worth in investing in 3D though.

SNAAKE:
3d is worth the investment and its not much either. most new panasonic plasmas are 3d anyway. few days ago I say a 65" 3d panasonic for like 1700 shipped on slickdeals. only if I had the room! :hissy:

DillonFoulds:
I would have suggested Samsung plasma, but I'm currently on my third FPD. My first two were plasmas, a 46" and a 50". My third is a Sammy LED. I won't get into the details of why I'm on my third display, but let me just say Samsung has an absolute unbeatable customer service department. Something you'll more than likely encounter with a FPD (fixed pixel display, LCD, LED and plasma alike) is This Black Lines. All brands get them, and once you get one, you're going to get a lot more very rapidly. Plasmas are notorious for them, as the transistors (matrix drivers) are a lot higher voltage in a plasma (TV techs feel free to weigh in here).

While the LED is nice and bright, the colors sure don't hold up to what my plasmas used to. The plasmas truly had an unbeatable picture quality. Vibrant colors and dark blacks. Couple that with the response time that LEDs aren't close to touching, and you've got a very nice display. If it weren't for having two panels crap out in a 2 year span, I would have gone plasma again, but i'm afraid that I'm done with them now.

Howard_Casto:
 :stupid

Like I said before, plasma is outdated tech it has issues to say the least.  I would argue that the difference in picture quality is not nearly as bad as you are saying, but regardless, as you said they aren't worth the hassle.  I mean if we are going to go there a high-resolution crt has better picture quality than both... but who wants to deal with a dinosaur like that?

Just for the record though, we are 100% lcd now, and have been for a few years, haven't gotten a single black line or dead pixel.  We've got a toshiba (that the power supply failed and I had to rebuild) two vizios and a one "generico".  Their picture quality is nearly identical and if anything the toshiba looks a little worse.  People get hung up on brand names a lot and see a color difference that isn't really there.  Many of the tvs that look worse simply need their colors adjusted, different companies have different opinions of which settings look best.    The only reason that I reccomend vizio's to every one is becuase they are the cheapest and ALL tvs in this modern era are kind of crappy. 

They aren't an investment like they were back in the day when you could buy a good crt and it would last 15 or more years without issue.  People need to get that kind of thinking out of their heads.

Vigo:

--- Quote from: DillonFoulds on March 21, 2012, 01:53:59 am ---I would have suggested Samsung plasma, but I'm currently on my third FPD. My first two were plasmas, a 46" and a 50". My third is a Sammy LED. I won't get into the details of why I'm on my third display, but let me just say Samsung has an absolute unbeatable customer service department. Something you'll more than likely encounter with a FPD (fixed pixel display, LCD, LED and plasma alike) is This Black Lines. All brands get them, and once you get one, you're going to get a lot more very rapidly. Plasmas are notorious for them, as the transistors (matrix drivers) are a lot higher voltage in a plasma (TV techs feel free to weigh in here).

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Funny enough, when I clicked your link, the first result to pop up was a complaint from me about that issue on the CNET samsung forums. As it's Google, I don't expect everyone to see that first though.

Samsung support has been a huge YMMV in my mind. With the thin lines issue, they pretty much told me to STFU, go pay a TV repair guy, and leave them alone. It was like clockwork 2 weeks after the warranty expired, and they couldn't even offer a suggestion to me on the source of the problem, even though it turned out it is a common issue. Of course more issues cropped up on that TV later on, which is why my purchase qualifies under the class action against them. My experience with Samsung products is they are beautiful for a few years then taking a nose dive because of cheap components used. I don't even want to get into my Sammy home theater system.

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