Another public service announcement!
The old Big Box TV in the bedroom blew a head gasket last week.
Replaced with a Sony LED 32" Full HD, for $810. (only 1"1/4 inches thick, and really light in weight compared to thicker LCD's)
Dodge SONIC LCD was $499, 32" Normal HD (5 inches thick)
Sony 32" LCD was $574 for Normal HD
Sony 32" Full HD LCD was $750 (4-5 inches thick).
LED is energy efficient.... I SWEAR, THERE IS ZERO HEAT coming from the back of the TV. To me, that means low energy use! It even switches the screen to black when you leave the room !! Timer motion sensor I'm guessing.
I would assume other brand LED TV's give off minimal heat. When buying a TV, pass your hand over the top-back vents, and just check the heat it generates.... More Heat = More Power consumption, surely!!??
It should say on the back how many watts it uses.
What does it say on the back of yours?
Typically, large plasmas use about 500 watts plus,
LCD screens around 300 watts
and LED tv's around 200 watts.
So the difference between LED and the normal LCD screens is not that much.
Most of the electonics between the old LCD screens and the new LED screens are the same. A LED display is still just an LCD tv but the light source is from a bunch of LEDs around the edge of the display instead of the mini flouro light in the older screens.
yup the led tv's are simply lcd screens with an LED backlight . Biggest crock of **** but like ipads the masses think they are getting something awesome .
Big plasmas use about 3 to 4 amps, the older plasmas are the worst,,really power hungry.
The LED's use about 0.8amps,,,,,,,huge difference in power usage.
You could have 4 or 5 big LED tv's on and only use the same power as 1 plasma.
If you consider that most family homes the tv gets turned on at about 4pm,
then stays on till everyone goes to bed,,,,,say 11pm. So the tv is burning away for 7 hours every night, mummy might watch days of our lives during the day, and weekends the kids might play video games for a few hours,,dad watches footy,cricket all day ect.
All those hours burning 4 amps through your heater/plasma add up to a good power bill.
Plasmas have a better picture too.
Under 106cm it's basically impossible to buy a plasma.
I've got a four year old Samsung plasma and it has a better picture than my parents 2010 LCD tv.
Working as a tech in the service industry and for a warranty repair agent for quite a few major brands, I can honestly say that I would never buy a new plasma.
Heavier, hotter and tend to have more issues than LCD's.
LED tvs are just a lcd with led backlighting instead of fluorescent backlighting. While I agree that the early LCD's had picture quality issues compared to plasma, the new generation are great. Very good contrast, good colour (blacks etc are very good) and very minimal judder on moving images.
If I had an unlimited budget, I would have a LED backlit LCD, but in saying that its a bit like art - what I like, someone else will hate and visa versa. It all comes down to personal choice. We still have customers altering the settings of their new set to emulate their 25 year old tube set that they just replaced.
Oh and on the plasma issue - according to a few tech seminars I went too - Australia is one of the few countries in the world that still has a large demand for plasmas. Its been put down to the initial advertising that plasma was the best for watching sport!
For 2 hrs a day on average (actually that is about max) I don't see why I'd ahve a flash new thing for $2K plus
Got a 90cm old school tube TV I bought for $40 and in it's day 10 years ago it was about $3K. Also got a68cm old school that was about $800 8 yrs ago... good enough!
Unless you are one of the AV gurus where watching movies in cinema quality or better is your hobby I really don't see the point.
Gotta laugh at all those who spend $10K plus on 'home cinema" to keep up with the Joneses and then they bung it in a room that is close to cube shaped and thus has rubbish accoustics.
Spend the difference on wind sports equipment
LOL
Yeah the anti plasma group have spoken. The fact is the main reason why we buy a TV is to watch it. If we can get a decent picture then that is the go. In my experience there is no LCD or LED TV that produces a picture that is comparable to a CRT or plasma TV. The fact a LCD or LED TV needs to be backlit to produce a picture means the picture will never be totally black.
Calibration plays a part. View angle plays a part. Distance plays a part.
Yes plasmas use more power. I roughly calculated it costs me $20 a year to use a plasma vs a LED TV for power use. If I decided to trash my plasma and buy a LED TV, something that was not available in 2007, it would probably take me about 50 years to make up the difference in buying a $1000 TV.
So unless my plasma dies I'll just accept I have to pay a bit more while enjoying a better picture.
My 20 year old 51 cm Sony Trinitron still throws a great pic.
If it ain't broke, why replace it.
LOL
I find it extremely funny seeing friends with a massive tv, who say "Isn't the picture great" , but have the aspect ratio all wrong... I just nod and smile.
LOL
Our old TV stopped working around 12 months ago so we went and got a 40cm Samsung LED LCD TV and it is fantastic. Not huge (fits in same cabinet as old TV), but the picture quality is unbelievable - could not be happier. Don't watch a lot of TV, but nice to enjoy it when we do!
porn is much better on a 60 inch screen,only if i could harness my wrist power to pay for it
Everybody I know who has bought a new TV are amazed at the picture quality of the new LED TVs. Plasma might be better but who cares. I like "good". I don't need "best".
I bought a modestly large LED TV because we did not want our living room to be dominated by a giant TV. If I was buying again I would go considerably larger. The flat screen doesn't take up much space and the viewing experience is far superior to the big old tube or projection TVs. Watching movies at home is far better than going to some sh.it-hole cinema complex.
My old TV was 15 years old and on the way out. It cost $2000 when new. The new TV was $1295.
Years ago (6-7-8?) we got a digital video recorder (PVR). We haven't watched real time TV since we got it. We just record everything we want to watch and watch it at our leisure, skipping over the ads and crap bits. We only watch the ABC and SBS. Mostly docos, comedy and music shows.
The only downside of the PVR is that we record a heap of stuff. All sorts of classic movies and maybe interesting documentaries and series and stuff. It sits there on the hard drive for months waiting to get watched.... until I sneakily delete it.
I looked after a friend's house and they had internet TV. In theory you could search through the library and download any movie you ever wanted to see for later viewing. In fact the library only had crap movies.
The most recent addition to our entertainment system is I have put my entire music collection on a Macbook Air. (an ipad would do just as well). I plug it into the sound system and we have 4000 hours of music going on shuffle play. I can also plug it into the TV and watch video podcasts. As a result the TV is usually turned off after watching the news (pre-recorded of course).
