New TV

[BigV]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

I've never even heard of most of those brands.

I like LCD over plasma to rule out screen burn.

IMHO, picture quality is good enough on even the basic models to not worry about it. There is no need for 100 hertz updating when human eyes refresh at barely 1/4 that rate.

One major aspect of functionality which isn't compared is, well, functionality. How long after you turn it on does it start showing pictures? How long does it take to change from one channel to another? Do you need to tune to every channel before you can use the menu function to see what is on? These are things which have disappointed me about my current set and which I could have checked in the store but didn't.

human eyes refresh? um, what? would you please explain what you mean by that?

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by BigV

human eyes refresh? um, what? would you please explain what you mean by that?

Badly written, sorry.

The human brain can only process about 20 to 25 frames per second. Really old movies at 16FPS look a tiny bit jerky; movies became smooth when the FPS rate went to 24 FPS, which excedes the rate at which human brains can "refresh" images.

Apparently pigeons can go at over 100FPS, which is why they are happy to wait until the car is almost right on them until they get out of the way.

Back to TVs. IIRC modern signals are broadcast at 50FPS. That should be plenty fast. Some TVs use fancy software to figure out what would be between two frames and fill it in, thus giving 100FPS. No point, as human eyes/brains won't notice any difference. Some even push to 200. I suppose it might get the pigeons to watch .

[Beest]

We bought Vizio, the're market is decent no frills LCD's with low power use, they get good marks for picture quality at price point in consumer tests.

Had ours a couple years, happy.