Which TV BRAND is BEST?

• Panasonic
• Vizio
• Pioneer
• Hitachi
• Samsung

• Sharp
• Sony
• Samsung
• Vizio

I'm definitely giving in to Sony in the LCD category, Samsung as a close second. It's too bad Sony doesn't make computer monitors.

LCD: Sony

Plasma: Samsung

LCD - Sony

Plasma - Samsung

Best plasma on the market, hands down. This is an 8th generation Pioneer KURO.No other plasma will come even remotely close. If you don't believe me, check out avsforum.

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/v3/pg/kuro/product/details/0,,2076_310069733_477423263,00.html

For LCDs, the Samsung 81 Series was supposed to be the holy grail of LCDs, but the initial consumer impressions sound quite disappointing.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/11/samsung-announces-71-81-series-1080p-lcd-hdtvs/

In the end, choose a TV that looks best to you that is in your price range. Be careful of places like Best Buy, where they only show HD content. Most of your viewing will probably still be in SD, and many high-end plasmas and LCDs suffer when displaying SD content.

Plasma is good but there is no 1080p plasma tv yet. So I will go with LCD!Helment

...What in the world are you talking about? There are 1080p plasmas.

Plasma displays have lower resolution relative to size than LCD displays, but plasmas do in fact come in 1080p varieties.

[QUOTE="Helment"]Plasma is good but there is no 1080p plasma tv yet. So I will go with LCD!dmanrevived

...What in the world are you talking about? There are 1080p plasmas.

Plasma displays have lower resolution relative to size than LCD displays, but plasmas do in fact come in 1080p varieties.

oops, true, there is 1080p plasma now but the price is still too high compare to LCD since they are new. I am outdated.

[QUOTE="dmanrevived"]

[QUOTE="Helment"]Plasma is good but there is no 1080p plasma tv yet. So I will go with LCD!Helment

...What in the world are you talking about? There are 1080p plasmas.

Plasma displays have lower resolution relative to size than LCD displays, but plasmas do in fact come in 1080p varieties.

oops, true, there is 1080p plasma now but the price is still too high compare to LCD since they are new. I am outdated.

The ones that i THINK stand out are

Sony
Toshiba
Samsung

Bargain Bin TV's
Westinghouse
Vizio
Any American tv company

I've read a lot of threads on AVforum (I'm getting a new TV in October). This seems to be the general consensus.

Plasma:

Pioneer (way too expensive for most people, but they are fantastic).

Panasonic (I would go for these, you get a lot for a decent price.) If you're on a budget, PV70 (or PX70) (european name) is the way to go.

Samsung is in third, I really like their picture quality.

LCD:

Sony or Samsung. I personally think that Sony has the best picture (the high end series, that is). Buuuuut, there have been some clouding issues with their last gen. Hopefully that's fixed now. No matter which of these brands you buy, chances are you will be very pleased. Especially the new Sony-TVs. Their new contrast levels and brand new motion compensation technology seems to be the best ones out there. We'll see how Samsung counters that.

I don't really care about the rest. Sharp maybe?

Plasma- Pioneer

LCD- Samsung I'd pick samsung personally because they make exact quality LCDs as Sony, their newest tv lines always come out first, most importantly price/performance they are a hell of a lot cheaper. For example you can get a 46 in bravia(No xbr2 just plain 40v2500) for about 2000 an xbr2 for 2500 or an xbr3 for 3000+. OR you can get a samsung 4665f for about 2200 and the 4665f has a better dynamic contrast ratio and does hdmi 1.3. the only thing that beats this made by sony is the newest xbr4 and xbr5 and the W series. These models just got trumped by the two new lines by samsung xx71 and xx81. The xx71f has a 25000:1 contrast ratio (higher than the new xbr lines) and the xx81f has a WHOPPING 100,000:1 contrast ratio (highest on a production made lcd to date) because of a new backlighting that doesn't cost an arm and a leg to put in the tv.

Good example: Sony 46" XBR5 $3899

18000:1 DCR, HDMI 1.3, 120Hz

Samsung LN-T4681F $3999

100000:1 DCR, HDMI 1.3, 120Hz

Samsung LN-T4671F $3399

25000:1 DCR, HDMI 1.3, 120Hz

I just bought a Panasonic Viera 32" LCD (TC32LX70), how would you rank it? Everyones saying Panasonic plasmas but what about their LCD's?
Rob_101

Oh, yeah, I totally forgot Viera LCDs! You bought yourself a great TV (that's what EISA says at least), if this is what you have:

Panasonic Viera TX-32LXD70 (you probably have diff names in USA)

It was EISA-runner up to their 26". 50 European magazines have Panasonic in 8 top spots on that list, I have to check those TVs out...

LCD - Samsung (71 series)

Plasma - Pioneer

[QUOTE="Rob_101"]I just bought a Panasonic Viera 32" LCD (TC32LX70), how would you rank it? Everyones saying Panasonic plasmas but what about their LCD's?
artur79

Oh, yeah, I totally forgot Viera LCDs! You bought yourself a great TV (that's what EISA says at least), if this is what you have:

Panasonic Viera TX-32LXD70 (you probably have diff names in USA)

It was EISA-runner up to their 26". 50 European magazines have Panasonic in 8 top spots on that list, I have to check those TVs out...

No, thats the exact TV I have (I'm Canadian btw.). Wow thats great to hear, so far I'm loving it on my 360 elite and Wii :D now I know for sure I bought the right one. Total price I paid is $881.31 CAD.

I see many brands in stores, which which are the best qualities ones, and which are the ones you want to stay away?

PLASMA

• Panasonic 2 (I own a 42" viera and its amazing)
• Vizio 5
• Pioneer 1
• Hitachi 4
• Samsung 3

LCD

• Sharp 3
• Sony 1
• Samsung 2
• Vizio 4

RyuHayabusaX

Vizio is the best for the price by far!!!

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h292/melea1009/nates/100_6182.jpg