Most television sets found in the home use bulky cathode-ray tube (CRT) technology.The slimmer, flat screens that save space feature either plasma technology or liquid crystal displays (LCD). Plasma screens (above) emit light, providing a bright picture even outdoors, and can be viewed from as wide an angle as 160 degrees. LCD screens are used [...]

This is a complicated topic: when you’re choosing between plasma and LCD TVs, you’re actually choosing between two competing technologies, both of which achieve similar things (i.e., crystal-clear, color-filled pictures) and come in similar packages (i.e., super-model-thin cases). To complicate the decision-making process further, price is rapidly becoming a non-issue here.Despite all these similarities, these [...]

If you presently have a 29-inch TV with a 4:3 aspect ratio, you’ll be able to fit a 42-inch widescreen flat-panel TV in its place! With the same amount of floor space, you can enjoy a large-screen TV. Assuming the same floor space or “footprint,” you can replace your present CRT TV with a 4:3 [...]

Both plasma and LCD TVs have a service life of about 60,000 hours. In plasma TVs the panel has a service life of about 60,000 hours,(*1) and in LCD TVs the backlight has a service life of about 60,000 hours,(*2) so you can enjoy either for a long, long time. Number of hours until the [...]

Since they use different methods to display images on the screen, they produce different results. Plasma TVs are best at producing powerful big-screen images with lots of impact, whereas LCD TVs are good at producing subtly modulated images in brightly lit rooms. With their powerful Large-screen images, plasma TVs are ideal for the whole family [...]