Moderator hat on:Ok, that's enough. HTF doesn't require agreement nor friendship. But it does require civility. Vulgar insults are unacceptable. First warning. Second warning leads to loss of privileges.nigel19 said:
Sam, same warning. I advise you to not be baited into responding in kind. This is not a schoolyard.schan1269 said:
This is an insider who designed both plasma and LCD-LED TVs, who would rather look for another job than be stuck with building inferior products. Says it all really.
Don't use anything with chemicals in it.cineMANIAC said:BTW, is it safe to use glass cleaner to clean a plasma screen? Thought I'd throw this question in here as long as we're on this topic
FoxyMulder said:
I found that just using a cloth does tend to spread smudges, a dab of water and try and move it over the area carefully, sometimes circular motions, sometimes straight line or up and down, i have problems with smudges on my glasses, takes a bit to clean off.cineMANIAC said:
To expand on Malcolm's answer, no chemical should ever be used when cleaning a plasma or LCD screen as it can strip or smear the special anti-reflective coating, resulting in a permanent mess. Distilled water and a microfiber cloth is the best option, even better is to never touch the screen and just use a dry cloth every few months to remove any dust.cineMANIAC said:BTW, is it safe to use glass cleaner to clean a plasma screen? Thought I'd throw this question in here as long as we're on this topic
The problem of course is that even the best LCD-LED TV in the world, calibrated by the best professional available, faces the physical limitations of LCD technology. Chief among these is that an LCD's pixel response time will never be as fast as plasma, because plasma pixels can switch on or off almost instantly, while an LCD crystal needs to physically change shape. So motion handling will always be an issue, and will never look as natural as on a plasma.Furthermore, the fundamental nature of an LCD screen is that it doesn't emit light directly from each pixel; the light shines from behind the pixel, from the appropriately named backlight. On a plasma, each pixel is a lit phosphor cell which directly emits its own light. This is why an LCD image displays changing brightness and color saturation as you alter your viewing angle. The lack of precise per-pixel light control is also why, even on local dimming LCD-LEDs, which supposedly have great blacks, there are issues such as haloing around bright objects shown against dark backgrounds and/or dimmer whites when part of the screen is dark. LCD-LEDs simply don't have the native contrast capability to present both rich blacks and crisp, bright whites in the same scene at any time. It's either deep blacks and slightly hazy, dirty whites, or bright whites and milky blacks, depending on the scene.An LCD-LED is an efficient and functional display device, but presents too many compromises in the critical areas of motion and contrast to give a high quality image. With the exception of image retention issues, we had the best of all worlds with plasma, killed off for all the wrong reasons.McCrutchy said:
The increase in size will make a much bigger difference than the increase in resolution. I can see a difference between 720p and 1080p, but it's pretty subtle, and even less noticeable on film sources than video. The law of diminishing returns kicks in pretty hard after 720p - there's a huge difference between 480p and 720p, but much less so between 720 and 1080.cineMANIAC said:
It should look good but bear in mind these cheaper Samsungs are using pentile display tech, not an RGB stripe display, this means if you sit closely you may see a honeycomb look, pentile displays use less sub pixels and less power consumption, technically speaking it's not full 1080p, i believe 1080p vertical has been used by Samsung in their own descriptions of pentile sets, you should still enjoy it but in order to get the price down they are not using the traditional plasma methods here.cineMANIAC said:
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