My opinions, for anybody who finds this thread in the future:
The first and most important step is deciding how much time you want to spend learning about TV's and investigating which is best for you
Keep in mind you have to learn technical details through research, because there's a great amount of marketing in the TV world; visiting stores, company websites, or asking salespeople will give, at best, skewed information, or at worst, made up things that sound weird or comical to people who actually know.
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Originally Posted by nomcat
If you don't minding spending more, I can highly recommend an LED tv, like what Samsung produce. The clarity and contrast is incredible and make plasmas and lcds look dull.
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This is a cheap marketing trick
These TV's have both power-saving and image quality improvements compared to earlier LCD's. They do use LED's; however they are LCD TV's, not LED TV's. Also of note, the reason they were created was to fix one of the main image quality problems LCD's have when compared to plasma TV's, which was usually ignored because LCD's are thinner, etc.
I don't believe LED TV's are an option right now. Sony is the only maker of any type of LED TV that I know of, however they're going out of the market due to poor sales. This is because they only make one model, which is 11 inches and costs around $2500.
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Originally Posted by Lucifer
Thanks for all the good advice. We went and looked at a 50" 720p Panasonic Plasma TV today, looked pretty good!
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IMO, that's the best way to do it without a small research project. Go look around and get whatever looks best. Only thing to keep in mind is that most stores know so little that the images on those TV's have a lower quality source than an HDTV should have, so if there's static or weird things going on it's probably BestBuy's fault, not the TV's.