3-1, Weekly Written Analysis, Plasma vs. LCD TVs
The popular culture topic I chose to write about this week is plasma televisions verses LCD televisions. My husband and I are in the market for a new television and there are so many different brands with different abbreviations and numbers and how many pixels are good to get that it can become quite confusing. Especially if you’re not technology minded like me.
We’ve heard good qualities about both but weren’t sure which one would suit our purpose. My husband did research prior to our shopping around and as he and the sales clerk rattled off letters and numbers, to me it sounded as if they were speaking Greek. I did feel a bit uninformed and guilty that I let my husband do all of the fun research and I went a long for the enjoyment of picking the style and size. However I trust his judgment and decided why must two of us go through the painstaking agony of research?
The sales clerk at one particular store said that Plasma and LCD televisions are pretty much the same. You can Google the differences between plasma and LCD televisions and find pretty much any type of information you are looking for. However in a generic sense this is what I found out. Plasma’s can be a bit cheaper because they’ve been out a lot longer than LCD’s which are relatively newer. If your television will be in a brightly lit room than you would rather have an LCD TV as plasma’s have a lot of glare to them. One website that I found that was particularly helpful was, www.crutchfield.com where it gives a list of pros and cons for the plasma and LCD televisions. “Plasma Pros have screen’s phosphor coating creates lifelike color that is closest to conventional tube TVS, it’s cons are that they’re vulnerable to burn-in, and the screens are prone to reflections from room lights than LCD. The LCD pros are the panels weigh les than plasma and use less energy; burn-in not an issue, it’s cons are that the picture is slightly less natural than...