The ignorance of people in this thread is sickening. There are two things about plasmas that you can not deny. One, they have a better picture quality over LCD, and second, they are cheaper than LCD. People need to leave Walmart and shop at a store that has a desent selection of tvs with good quality. I would never buy a tv at Walmart. LCD tvs are catching up to plasma, but I still wouldn't buy one. I can't stand watching movies at 120hz.
The purpose of 120hz is to allow for smother playback of movies, which are filmed at 24fps (120/24 = 5). So for each real frame of the movie, the 120hz screen is creating 4 extra frames out of thin air. The purpose of this is to eliminate the jitter of playing back 24fps that is often seen on a 60hz screen. (3:2 pulldown). The net effect is a somewhat softer looking image that many refer to as the "soap opera effect", and many movie purists would rather live with the jitter (or jutter, or whatever it is called). There was a pretty good write-up on the whole thing at projectorcentral.com a few months ago.
100% agree. Unfortunately, I think many here were misinformed due the push for LCD sets from sale persons of generic electronic stores like BestBuy and CircuitCity...
I have heard how sales persons pitch for LCD sets with false information and myths from such stores over and over again... These sales persons have no clue what they are talking about, and once a shopper already invested a lot of money on a LCD set, they are inclined to WANT to believe they spent their hard earned money wisely so will fiercely protect the misinformation they were fed, so misinformation gets spread over and over... This is not any different from talking to anyone who were scammed into buying an over priced BOSE sound system... What is easier for them to do? Admit that they have been scammed by misinformation or keep believing they bought the best technology...?
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The ignorance of people in this thread is sickening. There are two things about plasmas that you can not deny. One, they have a better picture quality over LCD, and second, they are cheaper than LCD. People need to leave Walmart and shop at a store that has a desent selection of tvs with good quality. I would never buy a tv at Walmart. LCD tvs are catching up to plasma, but I still wouldn't buy one. I can't stand watching movies at 120hz.
Sorry for my ignorance but what is wrong with a movie at 120Hz?
The purpose of 120hz is to allow for smother playback of movies, which are filmed at 24fps (120/24 = 5). So for each real frame of the movie, the 120hz screen is creating 4 extra frames out of thin air. The purpose of this is to eliminate the jitter of playing back 24fps that is often seen on a 60hz screen. (3:2 pulldown). The net effect is a somewhat softer looking image that many refer to as the "soap opera effect", and many movie purists would rather live with the jitter (or jutter, or whatever it is called). There was a pretty good write-up on the whole thing at projectorcentral.com a few months ago.
100% agree. Unfortunately, I think many here were misinformed due the push for LCD sets from sale persons of generic electronic stores like BestBuy and CircuitCity...
I have heard how sales persons pitch for LCD sets with false information and myths from such stores over and over again... These sales persons have no clue what they are talking about, and once a shopper already invested a lot of money on a LCD set, they are inclined to WANT to believe they spent their hard earned money wisely so will fiercely protect the misinformation they were fed, so misinformation gets spread over and over... This is not any different from talking to anyone who were scammed into buying an over priced BOSE sound system... What is easier for them to do? Admit that they have been scammed by misinformation or keep believing they bought the best technology...?