Got the new"LED TV"...replaces Plasma and LCD's...awesome tecnology!

by Witness 007 10 Replies latest jw experiences

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  Witness 007

  Already had a 50 inch LG Plasma with "build in set top box" which was the latest advanced model 3 years ago...WOW! A year later this was out of date. 1080P Super high def for Blurays playing came out. Now LED Tv's with 3 cm thick screen, awesome color ratio, half the power consumption.you can see the beads of sweat on an actors forehead....now I have a 55 inch screen...haven't told my wife it's coming $4,500 from Samsung, with a free 22 inch LCD thrown in.

  Makes my Plasma look like crap! TV's are my "thing."
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  drwtsn32

  I don't think there truly are LED TVs. They are LCD TVs that use LED backlighting. They do look gorgeous. What model is it?
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  Witness 007

  Series 6 I think......the next series has Internet connections but I don't need that. Too expensive extra $1,200!
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  MissingLink

  drwtsn is right as usual. They use "LED" to make it seem like a whole other display technology, but it's just LCD with LED backlighting replacing the standard flourescent backlighting. Instead of a single backlight it has zones of backlighting, this allows better contrast.

  I got a 40" 8 Series a couple months ago (my first HD TV) and it's amazing. Definitely the clearest picture of all TVs in the shop. The contrast is great, and the lower energy usage was a big selling point. And it's stupid thin! The wall bracket is about 3 times as thick as the TV itself. It doesn't get hot at all.
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  Witness 007

  Yeah I know it's LCD with LED backlighting but here they call them LED TV's I think all LED's will go this way, and the screens are so damn thin...color ratio is incredible....my Plasma though good, did not have the incredible picture quality when watching Bluray.
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  SnakesInTheTower

  le sigh... I have a 32 inch HD TV.... not a flat screen..... damn thing weighs 135 pounds. So bulky and heavy it stuck out of the trunk of the back of my Civic...and I backed into the driveway and rolled it into the house end over end.....turned it upside down, opened the box, turned it back over, pulled the box out, and somehow levereged it a foot up into the entertainment center....it barely fit... the actual screen part barely fit without covering the glass door to the cabinet in the side.... yeah, I had no help..and did I mention it was raining on the way home (some 15 miles)?

  Hey it was on clearance...got it a few years ago at Wally World...my last major purchase at that economy eating giant...for the price I paid back then I can get a 40" HD LCD......le sigh.....

  Guess I won't replace it until maybe Christmas...if I can afford it...LOL

  Snakes ()
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  wha happened?

  I used to own a company that repaired displays. Computer, TV, commercial u name it. Just so funny thinking about those old 10" green screen or amber screen monitors.

  It did get fun at the end when we started repairing the larger screens and flat panels. My lab sounded like a stereo retail center. We also repaired amplifiers and we would crank them up
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  WTWizard

  Yes, LED TVs are coming out--I have seen the first true LED TVs advertised (where it is actually tiny LEDs making up the picture, not just the backlight). This is brand new technology, but it will not be long before it, like plasma and LCD, goes mainstream. The LCD with LED backlights is now starting to go mainstream--they do save energy compared to fluorescent backlight, and definitely compared to plasma and CRT. And the full LED TVs use even less energy, while providing pictures that even LCDs or plasma cannot even approach.

  As for me, I stuck with the regular, primitive LCD TV--I got one to replace the crap CRT TV I got from the witlesses (and paid $125, for a 13" set). The picture tube was still working well, but the controls were crap. It would default to channel 2 (I need it on channel 3 to use cable), and pushing "03" would usually return any number but the one I press. Plus the volume control was very noisy (it crackled badly, suggesting it was either very dirty, worn, or both). The new LCD TV is 26", cost me around $350 (I set it up myself in about 15 minutes), and has much better controls. Not to mention it is very dark compared to the CRT, is flat, and does not reflect room lights like the crap set I got rid of. All of which is good enough for me for now.
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  Qcmbr

  I just bought the UE46B8000. Its wafer thin and is stunning. Its upscaler is much better than anything I've ever seen and the picture is breathtaking (and I haven't even tried blu-ray yet.) The SD picture is like my old upscaled DVDs and at first glance looks HD. I've got a Sony 52 inch Bravia 2 upstairs and this new TV blows holes in it. There is some new guff on it (little stories for kids, cookery tips etc...fluff!

  Strange stuff: The 200 mhz (240 in US I believe) makes upscaled DVDs a bit weird, you know when you are watching a behind the scenes shoot of a movie and all the colours are much more realistic and harsh before they do the post processing gloss over it. Well just watched Twilight and it looked like it was shot with my camcorder, all too real! I kinda like it but it does take getting used to as it takes away some of the immersive magic of the movie while making it seem so much more in your face. I'm describing this badly - just think difference between real News Reports and Hollywood depictions of news reports.

  Imperfections, the backlight isn't perfect and on black screens there is bleeding and smearing (patches of not totally black on the screen). They have a weird circular button in the remote which surrounds the middle button, you select something with the middle enter button and then you can rotate the outside button to select sub menus. Nice idea but sucky since its so sensitive I find it hard to select and maintain the selection (I have to arch my thumb to stop catching it when I press enter. They also add a small pebble like remote that that just does power off, volume and channel up and down. Both remotes are ugly bugly imo. To make it internet capable you need an extra £50 dongle - tightwads. It's LED edge lit (think Christmas tree lights inside along the edges) but not true LED.

  Improvements: My Sony does this nasty dimming thing where to keep blacks black it dims the backlight on scenes that are dark but it does it suddenly so you get all the light parts of the screen suddenly dim and look washed out and then the backlight fires up in the next scene and everything gets bright. This TV doesn't seem to have the same problem at all. Also the remote lights up when it gets dark so you can see all the buttons.

  All in all - stunning, I totally recommend getting one since they are a major step up in quality for no great step up in price - and being edge lit they are super lightweight and about 5 times shallower than my Sony. I still get goosebumps watching it.
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  drwtsn32

  Yes, LED TVs are coming out

  Well, Sony does have an OLED TV but it's insanely expensive: $2500 for an 11" screen.

  Another interesting dispaly technology is the projection TV that uses lasers. I think it's by Mitsubishi. I haven't seen it in person.

  I am looking at replacing my 5 year old HD RPTV as the light engine is starting to fail. It'll probably be LCD w/ LED backlighting. My current TV is 60" so I need a new one at least that size. ;)