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720p plasma or 1080p lcd?

Jun 14, 2011 11:17PM PDT

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Just a nod.
Jun 15, 2011 1:30AM PDT

Having seen both my nod is to 1080p. The gaming is better but for movies and tv I might nod to plasma HOWEVER most folk don't use it exclusively for that so back to 1080p,
Bob

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Always go for LCD
Aug 13, 2011 9:12PM PDT

Based on my personal knowledge, especially for video game consoles, I think it's best if you buy an LCD (regardless of the brand) as experts say it provides more clarity and has less apparent "screen burn" than Plasmas. So yeah definitely go for the 1080p LCD, plus, LG is a good brand in and of itself.

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After........
Sep 17, 2011 10:19PM PDT
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You do realize
Sep 17, 2011 11:25PM PDT

You do realize that below about 16ms, the potential for any ghosting is almost zero, and I would expect that in a double blind test, no one would ever be able to tell which display was the 0.001ms response rate vs the 4ms response rate. The human eye just doesn't have that level of sensitivity.

It would also be ghosting that you'd be worried about, not lag. Response rate has nothing at all to do with lag, unless you mean that one or two of the previous frames were still visible on the screen for a split second before being erased, and thus the erasure was lagging behind the animation... But that's typically called ghosting.