DLP vs LCD vs Plasma TVs?

A friend of mine who has her quirks in bringing up technological insights about stuff every now and then.

She brought up something about LCDs "sucking" in general due to burn-in for LCDs.

I'm not sure how credible or how old her statements are considering she gets all this stuff from the TV (and not from the internet lol)

Supposedly DLPs have supposedly "taken over the market" or "beaten LCDs"  since there's a large sale for DLPs compared to LCDs.  (True or false, the question is when have this occured and how long has it stayed that way.)

I'm pretty sure LCDs have already been designed to deal with the burn-in issue.

Aside from that, no matter how you look at it, having the need to replace a blasted light bult is a rather annoying turn off for me.

(I mean, DLP Projectors sounds better than a DLP TV, in fact uhhh, projectors meant for Home Theater Systems are literally DLP Projectors right?)

Edit: Strictly speaking it's really just about DLP vs LCD, and which marketed better supposedly, and the burn-in issue.  Plasma wasn't really brought up, even then LCD and Plasma are sorta like step brothers anyway.


Edited by Axel Daemon - 07 Oct 2008 at 7:21pm

All of them have disadvantages and advantages, just depends on the user.

DLP is the most affordable but you can't hang them on walls. You have to change the lightbulb every now and than in exchange for picture quality staying strong.

Plasma is big and expensive. Picture quality degrades over time. You can mount them on walls, they offer the best viewing angles. Not suitable for rooms where light can't be controlled.

LCD is affordable and comes in sizes smaller than Plasma. Is suitable for brightly lighted rooms. Picture quality degrades, blahblah, basically a plasma.

Burn-in is really rare... it won't happen unless you leave it on the news channel for days -.-

Plasmas do just fine in rooms where light can't be controlled. light up high it looks great, lights low it looks great, you can adjust your monitor if needed to match the lighting.

the only problem with plasmas is that if you run it for 16 hours a day, you will lose quality after 3 years and after 4 or 5 you will need to replace it.

LCD and plasma are both same sizes, in screens (42", 50", 60"0 but when it comes to the size of the actual set the LCD is the bigger one, not the plasma.

I have had plasmas, since they first came out, the first round were crap, my first one lost image quality after a year and a half, but each generation got better, right now pio kuro elite is king of plasmas, my current pio elite has been working 16 to 18 hours a day everyday and its been 2 years and its still going like a champ.

I wouldn't recommend plasmas as monitors tho, they are the best TV IMO.

Originally posted by DST4ME I have had plasmas, since they first came out, the first round were crap, my first one lost image quality after a year and a half, but each generation got better, right now pio kuro elite is king of plasmas, my current pio elite has been working 16 to 18 hours a day everyday and its been 2 years and its still going like a champ. I wouldn't recommend plasmas as monitors tho, they are the best TV IMO.

Yeah...and heading to Florida next week.  Too much oxygen there.  

when we had a home theater i was looking into a pioneer elite plasma but since the basement we had didnt have light problems we wound up goin with a 80" wall mounted screen and a sharper vision projector

Originally posted by DST4ME 80" is always good how is the projector?

it was amazing considering we had NO windows in the basement so it worked just fine.

Originally posted by DST4ME niche would you recommend it to somebody else?

this was a few years back but in my experience with a very good group of home theater guys as long as u dont cheap out on the projector its def a great way to go.  Im talking about not buying ANYTHING u see in a place like best buy/most online retailers were talking top of the line home theater stuff

Originally posted by DST4ME thank you, now few more questions if you don't mind. if money was not an issue, which would you pic between the two? lcd or the projector?

Edited by FLighT - 08 Oct 2008 at 1:25pm