Plasma TV to watch the home shopping channel-Right!

I recently bought a plasma HDTV. And I researched, I think, every TV on the market. Does anyone know what the best plasma out there is? They all begin to look alike after a while. Although I bought a Dell, I considered a Sony and oddly enough a Samsung because of picture quality. Any techies out there?

 

Moen you know that I speak my mind but to be quite frank with you, I know nothing about TV's other then plugging them in and using the remote.

 

I wouldn't want it any other way Andy

 

I'm hardly an expert, but advice from online forums and personal side-by-side testing pretty much convinced me that Panasonic makes the best plasma screens out there.

 

I have also heard that the Samsung as well as various Toshiba are good sets. I always like to go to the tv section at BestBuy and drool over the HDTV's. From what I have seen just about everywhere I really like the picture quality of the Sony's and their reputation is hard to beat.

 

The Sony sets had the richest pictures and it was hard to tell the difference between them and the Samsungs. Panasonic looked pretty good too. Sonys cost the most and had the most features. Sometimes it's the store's feed that makes all the difference.

 

Moen1305,can you plug a video recorder & a DVD player into the back of a plasma-screen T.V.? I know that you can now use your T.V. to surf the Internet,but you need a special package to connect up to it.

Aidan.

 

According to the specs., you can connect (2) HD, (3) S-Video, (3) Composite & Coax, HDMI, VGA, DVI_HCP & Vidio Out, (7) RCA Audio.

I can connect my computer to it without any extra pachage and DVD and Video cams are pretty standard these days.
A connection for surround sound is standard and the detactable speakers usually get tossed on a closet.

I know the prices have gone down on the plasmas recently. A 42" is as little as $2200. Don't buy the EDTV. Hold out for the HDTV. You get a couple of hundred more lines of resolution.

 

Differing plasmas have various inputs. Note that some of the best deals on plasmas are the "profesisonal" models, which are no-frills panels lacking built-in speakers, multiple inputs and tuners. They retain the glass (and therefore picture quality) of the more expensive consumer models.

These models are popular among enthusiasts for their price/performance ratio. The money you save on a professional panel can be invested into a good A/V receiver, which serves as the switching center for the peripheral inputs like VCR and DVD.

Also consider that most cable television providers supply a box with their service, which serves as the tuner for their channels.

The professional version of the Panasonic I own is now available in HD resolution for considerably less than I paid for the ED-resolution consumer panel I bought.

 

Thanks for the input. I thought that the S-video inputs let you connect pretty much anything.