2012-12-10, 21:43 | Link #1 |
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LCD or LED? 60 Hz or 120 Hz?
Well I want a personal TV for my own. I using it for really high quality produced Anime Blu-rays , and Xbox 360 gaming (Halo:4). I'm not really Telly savvy, based off my needs what type of T.V. should I be looking for?
LCD or LED? 60 Hz or 120 Hz? 39,40,42 inch? |
2012-12-10, 21:49 | Link #2 |
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LED will give off a brighter and more colourful looking display, whilst more Hertz will probably reduce motion blur in your picture. Size is your personal preference, of course.
Another essential thing to look for is delay time. The less ms of delay in a TV, the lesser the lag you will notice. Kind of like how old CRTs with retro consoles like the NES would react instantly to a button press, while something like Halo will have a very slight lag (depending on the TV). They're different technologies altogether, but it's something to look for. OLED is recent and pretty crazy. Look into it and buy a true LED TV if you're going to spend THAT much money on it. :3
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2012-12-10, 21:56 | Link #3 |
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Depends on how much your willing to spend. The color contrast for LED tvs are really high and nice so I would highly suggest them for watching and gaming, but the price is quite big. I personally don'T see a need for 120hz refresh rate. Yeah there is a noticible difference,but imo it doesn't justify the increase in price.
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2012-12-11, 12:30 | Link #10 |
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1. Plasma has a lot better picture quality than LCD regardless of whether CCFL or LED backlit, and a lot of it's problems aren't as bad anymore. Unless you are really concerned about power consumption, I would suggest getting one.
2. Size depends on the size of your room and how far you are sitting from the screen. 3. 120Hz is useful pretty much only for 3D. |
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Agreed.
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2012-12-11, 18:48 | Link #12 |
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LED TV is misleading marketing. Both are LCD displays, but there is LED backlight instead CCFL backlight. True LED TV would mean that each pixel has own LED lights.
120 Hz itself shouldn't give any "soap opera" downside effect because it depends from video frame rate and how sharp each frame is. 24 fps would be a really choppy if each frame wouldn't contain motion blur. For example 60 fps is considered often too smooth because camera exposure times have been set so low there is not much motion blur. Human vision gives a weird feeling when motion blur doesn't match to reality or something. Screen size depends from personal taste and viewing distance because resolution is often same and there is not much video content beyond 1080p anyway and consoles are tied to that anyway (they actually can use lower resolutions like 720p or even lower). Everyone have unique vision but this chart gives some direction how well people can see pixels. http://lowtek.ca/roo/wp-content/uplo...tion_chart.png Plasma TVs could be superior for video content, but they might have issues displaying pixels which stay same for a long time like HUDs in games. I don't know about input lag, but usually TVs don't have priority for that. Some display can minimize input lag by disabling all those "image improving" features. I have heard that some people might notice flickering with LED backlights or "unstable" image with plasmas. Probably would be best to test different displays somewhere before buying one.
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2012-12-11, 19:35 | Link #13 |
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That is true. The "real" LED TVs are OLED TVs, but my gosh are they freaking expensive and rare. They are however very impressive piece of display technology with displays thin and flexible as paper and uses less energy than a flourscent light bulb.
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2012-12-11, 21:09 | Link #14 |
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I went from paying 13 cents/kwh to almost 50 cents/kwh when I moved for work.
Let's just say that all of a sudden I'm a lot more concious of the energy cost of my gadgets. From that perspective, LED back-lighting is a no-brainer.
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