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Which Is The Best? - Plasma HDTV Or LCD

The in-thing of today is either Plasma or the LCD screens. This has been the buzz among the electronic lovers. There are many brands that have introduced and are also marketing their different models. However, one is not sure how many of us know the difference between the Plasma screen and the LCD screen. Both the technologies became popular and were used in making TV sets only from 1990s. One common factor of these two screens is that they can be used as computer monitors. Some of the popular brands are that available in the market today are Sony, Philips , Panasonic, LG, Pioneer , Samsung , Mitsubishi and so on

Something about Plasma HDTV and LCD

The screen of the plasma TV is made of very minute pieces of bubble-shaped glass. Each piece of glass represents one pixel. When the current passes through the plasma of the screen, the pixels react and cast off ultra violet rays. The pixels will either glow or dim approximately to form the perfect image. A close look at the plasma TV will show the individual pixel cell coloration of red, green and blue bars. One can also see the black ribs which separate them. Plasma TV has the ability to display images that make use of either standard or HDTV format. Plasma TV can also display images from home-recorded videos. Plasma TV can be used as computer monitors too.

LCD is an acronym for liquid crystal display. Here the technology works by trapping the liquid crystal solution between two sheets of polarized glass. The polarization of the light passing through them changes in response to the electric voltage. As a result of which more or less light is able to pass through the polarized glass

The differences Between Plasma HDTV and LCD

Though both LCD and Plasma HDTV are slender, sleek and have flat panels, the technologies by which they process the images are totally different.

1. Picture Quality - both the LCD and the plasma HDTV flat panels displays excellent picture quality. However, it has been reviewed that plasma screens are more suitable for basic home theater use than LCD panels. This does not mean that LCD panels are not suitable TV screens.

2. The viewing angle of the plasma television sets is better than LCD televisions. The viewing angle represents how far one can sit away from the screen without experiencing the deterioration in picture quality

3. Image retention occurs in plasma HDTV. Screen burn-ins or image retention occurs when an image is left for too long on the screen. This occurs in any brand of plasma TV for the first 200 hours. So therefore in this circumstance LCD is better than Plasma

4. Price - LCD TVs are more expensive compared to the Plasma TVs.

5. LCD TVs consumer less energy compared to the Plasma TV. The Life expectancy of LCD is more compared to the Plasma TVs.