TV buying help needed from experts please

I thought LED sets were more expensive than LCDs? It was about 3½ years since I bought a TV, and I only take an interest in what's on the market when it's time to buy a new one.



"What sort of animal would do this to a dog?"

Edge-lit LEDs are more expensive than LCDs, but edge-lit LEDs are cheaper than back-lit LEDs.

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I have to go number two.

Interesting.

If I don't get my P45 in a few months time I'll be getting a new TV to replace my 32" CRT that blew up this time last year, so will also be doing some investigating about current technology.


"What sort of animal would do this to a dog?"

As far as I can tell it's about the deepness of the blacks. LEDs are better than LCD. Edge-lit allows for ultra-thin TVs. Back-lit TVs are thicker because the LEDs are behind the screen, but they can isolate the dark/light parts of the image more accurately and react accordingly. Or something.

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I have to go number two.

LED tvs are simply LCDs with backlighting. They still suffer from the same bad motion, graininess, light black levels, crappy viewing angles and bad response times.

Plasmas are still the best TVs on the market, and will be until maybe OLED TVs become mainstream.

And no before someone asks, plasmas don't have burn in issues any more, or gas leak issues, or any other dumb rumor that you heard about it from someone. For the same price as a mid level edge lit LED you can pretty much get a top of the line Plasma.

John, I'm not an expert but I believe the hz spoken of in the technical specs of TVs refers to the refresh rate of the picture. My LCD TV has a refresh rate of 50 hz and it's about the lowest you can get -- it creates issues with motion blur at times. With refresh rate, "the higher the better" is the guideline.

The cheaper TVs like mine have 50 hz refresh rates; the more expensive you go, you can get higher refresh rates, which in plain terms just makes for a better picture, especially for motion. On mine, sometimes even someone just moving their head looks fuzzy until they stand still again. I only found out about the whole refresh rate thing after I'd bought the TV.

I'm not that happy, and since mine's already developing other issues and I'm getting no joy from the retailer, I'll soon be buying a new TV and will bear in mind this time that I want more than 50hz refresh rate.

Try also to get a TV with built in Freeview. I'm not sure if or what aerial is needed (I've only had to deal with wall-outlet Freeview that you just cable-up to the TV).



Just for the record, I'm female.....at least, last time I checked...