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Looking to replace my Plasma TV
My current 50" TV is not even a high end plasma but picture quality in terms of contrast, viewing angle and blacks it still better than any sub £1000 55" LCD.
Unfortunately the TV has started developing some faults any will probably need replacing soon. Any thoughts on best alternative. Main thing with LCD is the viewing angles, even IPS screens can't match it. |
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you might want an oled TV there some LG ones around £1500
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-...44246-pdt.html and a flat one seems to be more http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-...46230-pdt.html this also still has the 12 months sky Q deal. |
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Would have thought Oled is your best bet, if you dont want the downsides of led/lcd tv's.
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this one comes with 12 months sky Q
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lg-o...rranty-2563681 |
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Hi there, whatever you do do don't do Plasma again they are greedy when it come to energy usage, i had a client complaining about his electric costs, he was leaving his plasma on for about 18hrs a day @ 450watts an hour, it was only most for background noise he soon changed his viewing habits after that.
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Hi there, whatever you do do don't do Plasma again they are greedy when it come to energy usage, i had a client complaining about his electric costs, he was leaving his plasma on for about 18hrs a day @ 450watts an hour, it was only most for background noise he soon changed his viewing habits after that.
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Hi there, whatever you do do don't do Plasma again they are greedy when it come to energy usage, i had a client complaining about his electric costs, he was leaving his plasma on for about 18hrs a day @ 450watts an hour, it was only most for background noise he soon changed his viewing habits after that.
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Plasmas are dead, they are not manufactured any more.
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I don't know about the current models but LG seem to have a flickering problem when switching between 1080i and 1080p. See threads on this issue where LG don't want to know and several members have vowed never to touch LG again.
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Later plasmas averaged nothing like that much energy, it's an old wives tale best ignored.
But you don't even need to measure what a Plasma uses, you can physically feel the heat coming from it ![]() So at least during the winter it's not 'wasting power', as it's heating your house and reducing your heating bill slightly. Quote:
When I last checked mine, it averaged about 150 watts or less.!
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When we changed our Plasma last year we went for OLED
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^^Yep changed my 50" LG Plasma for the LG 55" OLED 4K, fantastic TV and great PQ
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Not at all, Plasma do use considerably more energy - obviously they don't continually use what the label on the back says, that's the absolute maximum consumption - just as the label on the back of any TV is the absolute maximum.
But you don't even need to measure what a Plasma uses, you can physically feel the heat coming from it ![]() So at least during the winter it's not 'wasting power', as it's heating your house and reducing your heating bill slightly. Which is a number of times higher than a similar sized LCD set ![]() I'd have thought everyone knows plasmas use more energy than LCDs but the better comparison is with 2 or 3 incandescent light bulbs, not an electric heater. |
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not an electric heater.
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Even 450W is well short of an electric heater
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Even 450W is well short of an electric heater
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I'd love to go OLED but at current prices it out of my price bracket. Guess I'll keep go going with my current screen for now.
Also my plasma is around 450W when display bright screen and around 200W when showing a black screen. I believe LED are the other way round, more power used to power the LED when displaying a black screen and less with a white screen. |
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I'd love to go OLED but at current prices it out of my price bracket. Guess I'll keep go going with my current screen for now.
Also my plasma is around 450W when display bright screen and around 200W when showing a black screen. I believe LED are the other way round, more power used to power the LED when displaying a black screen and less with a white screen. LCD screens with LED backlighting (or cold-cathode backlighting, for that matter) ought to show a fairly constant consumption, regardless of screen brightness (because the backlight remains at the same intensity whether you can see it or not). LCD screens with local dimming backlighting would reduce consumption with a darker picture, but I can't think of any technology that would increase it. |
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OLED screens (self-illuminating pixels) ought to vary their consumption in the same manner as plasma displays (albeit at a lower level).
LCD screens with LED backlighting (or cold-cathode backlighting, for that matter) ought to show a fairly constant consumption, regardless of screen brightness (because the backlight remains at the same intensity whether you can see it or not). LCD screens with local dimming backlighting would reduce consumption with a darker picture, but I can't think of any technology that would increase it. |
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Its not the backlight that causes power fluctuations for a non-dimming LCD screen, the crystals themselves require a small amount of power in order to twist and block the light to create a black pixel.
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So at least during the winter it's not 'wasting power', as it's heating your house and reducing your heating bill slightly. |
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All this talk of energy is pointless. The energy used to manufacture the TV and the costs of you buying it are huge compared to the energy costs of running it. If you really want to be environmentally friendly don't buy a new TV.
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All this talk of energy is pointless. The energy used to manufacture the TV and the costs of you buying it are huge compared to the energy costs of running it. If you really want to be environmentally friendly don't buy a new TV.
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LCD screens with LED backlighting (or cold-cathode backlighting, for that matter) ought to show a fairly constant consumption, regardless of screen brightness (because the backlight remains at the same intensity whether you can see it or not). |
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I suspect that would be negligible compared with the power consumed by the backlight. But I can always be persuaded with numbers...
![]() LCD's take almost no current at all, it's essentially a static field (a bit like the charge on the grid of a valve). What does take a reasonable amount of power (but far less than the backlighting) is the chips driving the LCD, these have to work very quickly, so produce a fair bit of heat. |
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