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Okay so I've been on here before asking about LG etc and just as I thought I'd found the ultimate deal (LG 42" for R7,500) I found out it wasn't full HD. So now I am looking again. I got a Dion/Game store card this AM so I can buy a new TV.

I am looking to spend under 10k. So I went looking and they've got a Telefunken 50" Plasma, Full HD for R9999. (Usually R11,999).
What is your opinion on Telefunken as a product? The other one that I'm considering is the Logic 47" at R10,500. Both are Full HD.

My gut tells me to go with LG from Dion. They've got a HD ready 42" lcd for R8,000. My concern is that it's only HD ready.

What do you think? Plus LCD vs Plasma. I have a WII, XBox and a heck of a DVD collection. I mainly use the TV for DSTV and my DVD collection though.

Thanks x
 
samsaymore said:
Okay so I've been on here before asking about LG etc and just as I thought I'd found the ultimate deal (LG 42" for R7,500) I found out it wasn't full HD. So now I am looking again. I got a Dion/Game store card this AM so I can buy a new TV.

I am looking to spend under 10k. So I went looking and they've got a Telefunken 50" Plasma, Full HD for R9999. (Usually R11,999).
What is your opinion on Telefunken as a product? The other one that I'm considering is the Logic 47" at R10,500. Both are Full HD.

My gut tells me to go with LG from Dion. They've got a HD ready 42" lcd for R8,000. My concern is that it's only HD ready.

What do you think? Plus LCD vs Plasma. I have a WII, XBox and a heck of a DVD collection. I mainly use the TV for DSTV and my DVD collection though.

Thanks x
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I had an CRT Telefunken 54cm tv, bought in 1986! :D it worked flawless till eskdom blow it up during the "rolling black outs" :mad:

I will go for 1 of those LED (backlit) LCD tv's :love: abit pricey though :sick:
 
Sorry for hijack but is the 42 inch LG for R7.5k a plasma or LCD?
 
Check that your room is large enough for a 50" ...wanting the biggest is easy - having to 'Wimbledon' your neck to watch a film can be a little harder.

Also: you have frikking fish eagle vision if you can tell the difference between 720 and 1080 on anything but Blu-ray... if that's your thing then fine but don't feel that 720 is second rate, I have performed a side by side test and I hosetly could not justify the price for what is a very fine line in terms of image quality.
 
Sorry guys but If you rejected the LG because it was not Full HD why do you want to go for a Plasma that does not handle the full 1920x1080p that Full HD requires

I stand corrected here but Plasmas do not handle the same resolution as a LCD. Full HD refers to the TV's ability to display 1920x1080p and Plasmas cannot display this they will accept a full HD signal but they do not display it in that resolution

You might be better off going with the LG if that's a LCD even if its hd ready which will display at 1280x720p

Also why do you want a Plasma they are dying LCD is the future and you have to deal with picuture burning into the screen
 
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I recently purchased a Samsung 42" LCD and it came with a free Samsung Bluray player. It cost just under the 10K mark. Its HD ready, and i honestly think the picture is out of this world..... very little difference between full hd and hdready...
 
Telefunken is good enough. Does not have the image processing that sumsung, LG and Sony have, but its good enough, great at that price. One thing to keep in mind is that I highly doubt that it is Full HD, even though thee manual might say so. I know a guy that bought the 42" "full hd" telefunken, definitely not full HD, even though it said so in the manual. That said, full HD is just a marketing ploy - you need so sit within 1.5x the screen size from the screen to see the difference.
 
SlinkyMike said:
Check that your room is large enough for a 50" ...wanting the biggest is easy - having to 'Wimbledon' your neck to watch a film can be a little harder.
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You'd have to sit ridiculously close to need to use your neck.

THX recommended viewing distance for a 50" 16:9 screen is 1.8m
 
I found the Telefunken CRTs I have owned in the past to be reliable and adequate on image quality, but not on a par with the more expensive makes. But I've seen some real (CRT) dogs from Sony, LG and Samsung too.

P924 said:
full HD is just a marketing ploy - you need so sit within 1.5x the screen size from the screen to see the difference.
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That would be around the recommended distance.
 
i would go with Sparkz's idea - the sammy LCD and bluray player (esp. since you don't have a PS3)

having said that, a 50" looks massive against a 42" - very tempting.......

.....meeeeeaahhhhhhhhh nah go for the sammy + bluray!
 
Unfortunately size matters when it counts specially with the right motions ......................... smooth live action!
 
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Sigh, all this uninformed plasma bashing is driving me up the wall.

I stand corrected here but Plasmas do not handle the same resolution as a LCD. Full HD refers to the TV's ability to display 1920x1080p and Plasmas cannot display this they will accept a full HD signal but they do not display it in that resolution
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Incorrect, 1080p plasmas handle 1920x1080p just fine. Alot better than LCD actually, with moving images, LCD's slow response rate can drop the res to below 400p. And no, plasma don't need a nuclear power station to power, 2008 and later plasma uses less power than 72cm tube tv. And no, you don't have to be worried about burn-in, if you didn't burn your old CRT, you are not going to burn your plasma. You need to be dumb enough to leave a static images on screen for a day or more.
 
Penquin said:
Sigh, all this uninformed plasma bashing is driving me up the wall.
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Yep, I've actually stopped responding to this too. I have a Sony LCD and a Samsung Plasma. The Plasma is so superior it actually isn't funny. Also searching "Plasma VS LCD" and "displaymate" produces some pretty telling results.
 
Penquin said:
Sigh, all this uninformed plasma bashing is driving me up the wall.



Incorrect, 1080p plasmas handle 1920x1080p just fine. Alot better than LCD actually, with moving images, LCD's slow response rate can drop the res to below 400p. And no, plasma don't need a nuclear power station to power, 2008 and later plasma uses less power than 72cm tube tv. And no, you don't have to be worried about burn-in, if you didn't burn your old CRT, you are not going to burn your plasma. You need to be dumb enough to leave a static images on screen for a day or more.
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How is gaming (xbox, PS3) on a plasma, or using it as a pc screen?
 
noxibox said:
You'd have to sit ridiculously close to need to use your neck.

THX recommended viewing distance for a 50" 16:9 screen is 1.8m
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Those distances are recommended for viewing content played on the TV's native resolution. Sitting 1.8m from a 50" when playing SD content is not a good idea. You'll need to be at least 3-4m away or the quality will be an eyesore. When viewing 1080p content 1.8m is just about right though.
 
I bought both those models in the last 12 months.....

Got the 47 inch for myself early last year. Very nice. Mounted on wall. Sit about 3.5 m away, and looks great.

HOWEVER, the menu started poping up on the screen at random times. My wyfie figured out that it is the control buttons on the side
which causes the menu to pop-up. Seems they were shorting randomly. We eventually put some paper into the hole around the menu button,
which stopped the menu poping up( I really really really did not want to take the tv down, remove the brackets, box the thing, put on back of bakkie, drive back to game, go get trolley, and eventually sit without tv for three weeks).

Unfortunately, within a week the whole screen went blank, and I had to do all the above.

Three weeks later, on a Sunday mornin, after no call from Game (three weeks is their own repair limit), I went to game.
The TV was fixed and waiting for me (I was hoping for a new one, if it was not fixed - like they promissed!).

Went through process above in reverse, and lo and behold, menu starts poping up immediately.

Popped a few arteries in my head, and went through the above process in reverse reverse.

Got to Game. Friendly lady called responsible person. Responsible person immediately gave me a brand new TV.

Went through above procedure in reverse, reverse, reverse, reversed.

Tv is working fine, giving me lots of pleasure.

So, in November I bought the 50 inch Plasma for my mom (she has bad eye-sight).
Installed it on Xmas.

Is still working fine, and the parental units love it.

There does seem to be more glare coming from the plasma screen from ambient light, but I suppose it depends on your room layout.

I do prefer the plasma, for both its size and picture quality. It seems more alive than the lcd. We both use the SD-PVR, so I cannot comment on the Full HD part of the screens.

I have often thought that I would have prefered the plasma for myself.

I have my pvr, as well as a HTPC connected to the 47 inch at home.

Oh yes, it seems that Mnet's movies seems to prefer the 50 inch. On my 47 inch, I almost always, on most channels see a black bar around the screen (16:9), whilst the 50 inch seems to fill the screen better. Must be the ratio size of the 50 compared to the 47.

You are welcome to ask me any specific questions you may have about the 2 models. You caanot go wrong with either, trust me!
 
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Pegasus said:
How is gaming (xbox, PS3) on a plasma, or using it as a pc screen?
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I don't have a console yet, so cant comment on that. I'm planning on getting a ps3 soon. The sole purpose atm of my plasma is to be a display for my HTPC. Running @ 1280x720, everything is razor sharp, in Windows/browsing the net/HD content/photos. And nothing is stretched or cut off, considering the native res is 1024x768. The sd content looks good as well. I'm running ffdshow to help a bit with the deblocking of the lower quality xvids & dvd's.
 
SaiyanZ said:
Those distances are recommended for viewing content played on the TV's native resolution. Sitting 1.8m from a 50" when playing SD content is not a good idea. You'll need to be at least 3-4m away or the quality will be an eyesore. When viewing 1080p content 1.8m is just about right though.
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SD TV maybe. Upscaled DVDs look excellent, and obviously have to be watched from as close to the recommended distance as possible to get a cinema feel. Even TV will look decent if the scaler is doing a good job.
 
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