| Are you looking to buy a new widescreen TV set to | | | | environments with good light. |
| replace your CRT TV? If yes, then you are probably | | | | Life Span |
| faced with the question of buying LCD vs. plasma TV | | | | When you buy an expensive television set, naturally |
| and are thinking of which one you should get. It is not | | | | you would expect something that will last you for |
| easy to answer this question, given that LCD and | | | | years and years to come. Even though the plasma |
| plasma TVs are almost similar in quality. Thus, you | | | | TV has gotten better life spans in the last couple of |
| need to figure out which is important to you in a | | | | years, the LCD TV is still the king of durability. If you |
| television set and base your decision on what to | | | | get an LCD TV, you can expect it to stay with you for |
| purchase on those factors. | | | | at least 60,000 hours of usage, which roughly |
| Picture Quality | | | | translates to seven years of leaving your TV on for |
| One essential factor in buying a TV set is its picture | | | | 24 hours a day. |
| quality. In this department, plasma TVs, especially those | | | | The Price Tag |
| with HD digital tuners, easily edge out LCD TVs. | | | | Of course, no matter how good a television set is, it is |
| Plasma TVs are simply better than LCD TVs at | | | | of no use to you if you cannot afford it. So which one |
| producing accurate colors and deeper blacks. The | | | | is cheaper - the plasma or the LCD? For this question, |
| superiority of images on plasma TVs becomes more | | | | you will have to do a separate research on TV brands |
| evident on screens wider than 50 inches and when | | | | like Panasonic, Samsung and Sony, all of which |
| you do your TV viewing in the dark. | | | | produce both high-quality plasma and LCD TVs. Set a |
| LCD TVs come up with good pictures too, but they | | | | budget and buy the TV set that strictly meets this |
| get blurred and blown up when the screen is larger | | | | budget. |
| than 50 inches. Also, LCD screens look better in | | | | |