Plasma Tvs At Best Buy ^HOT^
So i'm looking at getting a new tv for my living room. Right now I have a 32" Vizio LCD and a samsung Blu Ray player. This setup looks decent with a blu ray movie which is surprising considering this tv is pretty much the lowest quality LCD you could buy, model VW32L. I love to watch movies and am looking for the best tv around 50". I've done some research and it's pretty much between a plasma and the new LED technology. So what do you guys recommend for the best picture quality for Blu Ray movies? I don't watch sports or do any gaming I just want the best picture you can get for movies. I'm kinda interested in the Vizio VF551XVT, looks like a good LED TV for $1800 from Dell.com. Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks
plasma tvs at best buy
How much money are you wanting to spend? Some of the newer LED tvs look pretty good, but it comes at a pretty hefty price. You could get a plasma tv which is a proven technology from a company with a proven track record for less money. And plasma tvs are still the benchmark for the best picture in flat screen tvs. The LED tvs are still LCD technology, they just use a different type of light, but they are still backlit. The Advantage of the LED tvs is they can be brighter and use less power. Plasma in most cases will still have deeper blacks, better colors and better off axis viewing. They question is can the normal person tell the difference?
I have the samsung 42 inch plasma in 720P and love it. I went to my dad's for christmas and he has a new samsung 55 inch lcd 1080P tv. After calibrating it for him I think mine looks better. And when I went to calibrate my colors they were dead on from the factory in the Movie mode. My plasma seems to do better with blacker than black images as well I noticed when setting it up.
My 50" Plasma is also 720P and I cannot tell the differance unless I am real close also. My daughter thought that getting an LCD was a better choice than a Plasma. I did not say anything to go against what her husband was telling her. He said he wanted an LCD over a Plasma. I think she wishes she had gotten a Plasma now. Sometimes father does know best.
Thanks for all the replies guys. I ended getting a Samsung 50" plasma from Tigerdirect.com for $1050, it's the 560 model with all the good stuff, 2Mil to1 contrast ratio as well. I think that was the best TV for me, you guys confirmed that for movies a plasma tv was for me. I lot of people you talk to these days say plasma's are old technology and dying but I didn't believe them or cared about that. I can't wait for this TV to come in to start watching some Blu Rays!!!!!!! I'm researching now how to properly break in a new plasma tv and how to calibrate the picture. Again, thanks for all the responses.
Old technology ha! What is that supposed to mean? While flat screens are better, they still don't look as good as nice direct view tv. Only reason I got a flat screen plasma was because I was forced to. If I could have gotten a 36 inch crt hi def tv you can bet your bottom dollar that is what I would have come home with. My old tv is an hitachi 32 inch hi def ready direct view, as in old tube tv. CRT tvs still put out the best picture in my opnion. And my crt tv will display any signal I send to it. It doesn't have a native resolution. If I send it 480i that is what it displays, it doesn't have to upconvert it to 720 or 1080. You look at basic cable on my new plasma then look at it on my direct view and the direct view blows it out of the water. And if I feed it 720P or 1080i it displays that too, not converts it to the native resolution. So no matter what signal I use it looks good.
The one thing I will give the plasma and lcd tvs is they are bright as all get out and they get better every year. Plasma used to be REALLY expensive and looked like garbage in my opinion. Now you have to look to see the differences, but they still are pretty pricey. Used to be you could run to your local chain store and grab a 25 or so inch tv for a couple hundred bucks and take it home and plug it in and it looked good. Not anymore, those days are gone it seems.
I bought a 50" insignia plasma tv 14 days ago, it did the same thing to us. My little girls were watching the tv and it made a pop noise, it has spider cracks inside to. I called insignia support and they told me the same, out of luck, it can be fixed, but it will cost more than what i paid for the tv. They said something had to hit the screen of the tv, so i accused my girls of breaking the tv, and they said they weren't doing anything but watching tv. Now i'm starting to wonder because there are two other tv's that did the same, and it was bought from Best Buy
I just experienced the same problem with my 50' plasma. We were watching the TV and there were loud noises then two spider cracks in the lower right corner of the screen appeared and sparked. Now, the sound works but the picture does not. Only the inner screen is cracked and no one touched it. We have only had the TV for about 2 months and everything was working well until today when this happened. I am not interested in paying for a repair if it going to cost more than replacing the TV will. It seems to me, that Best Buy needs to look into this reoccuring problem and examine their policies. Wasn't Insignia created to be Best Buy's affordable higher-end products? Having to replace a TV that I did nothing to damage is not affordable. I might as well have thrown $500 dollars in the trash. I am very furstrated with lack of customer service Best Buy has provided regarding this matter.
If the prices are the same, and the models are generally the same or similar, where do you head? Good question. There are pros and cons to the top US stores, including warranty and return policies, but a major thing to consider is the nature of the store's TV section itself. None offer the ideal viewing environment to compare picture quality, but some are better than others. I visited a bunch of local stores to find out which one was best.
You may have noticed one thing I didn't discuss is employee knowledge. It'd be impossible for any one person to judge this. They'd only be able to judge the employees at a specific store or stores they visited. You might find someone at Target who loves TVs and knows a lot, and you might find someone at Best Buy who calls their TVs "plasmas," or vice versa. Regardless, the burden of gaining knowledge falls to you. Do your research before you go. You are, conveniently, in the right place for that.
Panasonic has stated that plasma research and development efforts will likely be diverted to OLED. One can only hope that will mean that healthy competition among Panasonic, Sony, LG and Samsung will help scale production of OLED up while driving costs down.
Panasonic, once the undisputed leader in TV quality thanks to its excellent plasma displays, has been all but absent from the American market in recent years. With only LED TV technology left in its display arsenal, after it gave up on plasma, it wasn't able to compete with the likes of LG and Samsung. But Panasonic is using CES to remind us that it hasn't been twiddling its thumbs, and is actually making significant strides with OLED. As proof, it's showing off its brand new 4K OLEDGZ2000, which the company is boldly calling the "world's most cinematic TV."
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The Hisense U8H is the follow-up to one of our favorite TVs from 2021, the Hisense U8G, and stands alongside the TCL 6-Series as one of the best values. It's reasonably priced (especially if you can find it for its "everyday" price, rather than its higher suggested retail price), plus it offers loads of features and a fantastic picture. It shows more light bloom than the Samsung QN90B (and obviously more than any OLED TV), but its bright panel, wide colors, and Google TV platform with hands-free Google Assistant make it an excellent deal.
This is a bit pricier than a budget TV, but not by much. If you're willing to spend around $1,000, this is one of the best choices available. The TCL Google TV 6-Series is almost identical in features and performance, though it isn't quite as bright.
This is the best-looking TV we've seen yet and is a stunning showcase for the capabilities of OLED panels. Its color performance is close to perfect and it offers effectively infinite contrast thanks to its perfect black levels. It's also quite reasonably priced for an OLED. LG's WebOS interface is occasionally clunky, but it's loaded with features like hands-free voice assistants and Apple AirPlay 2. It's simply an incredible all-around package.
If you want a big, premium TV, the Samsung S95C offers class-leading picture quality. It's a technological marvel that's best for big spenders with spacious living rooms. For the rest of us, the OLED LG C2 remains a top alternative.
Hisense and TCL have both proven that you can get excellent picture quality and plenty of features out of a modestly priced TV (generally in the $1,000 to $1,300 range for 65-inch models). Below that price range, you need to make some compromises, but not too many. The Hisense U6H's contrast levels aren't impressive, for instance, but its color performance is fantastic and it offers tons of useful features including Apple AirPlay, Google Cast, and hands-free Google Assistant. This TV is also frequently available for below its suggested retail price, which helps solidify it as one of the best budget-priced TVs we've seen yet. 041b061a72