Showing posts with label Plasma TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plasma TV. Show all posts

Tuesday, 18 December 2007

Fatscreen TVs Consume More Energy

Yesterday I blogged about the rise in demand for flatscreen TVs. This morning I came across an article which states that LCD TVs consume 75% more power than regular TVs and Plasma TVs consume up to 300% more!

With all these TVs being sold, the increase in energy demand to pay for them should be considered too.

Monday, 17 December 2007

Plasma or LCD TV, That is the Question!

Sometimes you can have too much choice! With sales of flatscreen TVs rising by 55% in Sweden every electronics shop is full of them. But which to choose ???

First you have to decide on LCD or Plasma. Plasma give better picture quality but can suffer from picture burn in. LCD is immune to burn in, but can have a really crappy picture if the signal is bad. I just can't decide.....Some flat TV pictures I have seen are not even as good as my existing analogue TV, which is 15 years old.

In the shops they have hundreds of different TVs but I can never find any good reviews to say which is a good purchace.

The review published in Dn really scared me off Plasma, due to the burn in problem, but a salesman in a shop told me you would need to have the same picture on the screen for hours for this to happen. Who is right? .....aggghhhhh!!!

While I can't decide I'll keep watching my analogue TV and watch the cost of the flatscreen TVs fall. But now my kids are a little older I want to be able to watch DVDs in the evening on a proper screen and, like Gollum lusting after the One Ring, I can't stop thinking about the owning my own 40inch+ flatscreen 'precious'.