I've when it comes to flat panels, you guys prefer LCD. Why?

[theophile]

Originally Posted by Aage

In my opinion, LCDs seem to give less reflections in the screen in a bright room than plasmas, and in a very low light, plasmas seem to give more realistic colours and better detail.

However, and again this is just my personal opinion, they BOTH suck at detail available in dark parts of the image. Oh, some are better than others, but to me it looks like anything approaching black, and the detail just disappears, leaving a nothing but a black blob.

I'm hoping those news ones with the LED backlighting instead of flourescent are better, but no new TV for me till they solve that issue. I mean why fork out over a thousand bucks (depending on quality, features, and screen size) just to take two steps back in image quality!?

No thank you.

I saw something amazing whilst setting-up my LG HD CRT.
I had to access the adjustment to both the Blu-ray player,and the CRT to arrive at a truly natural skin-tone rendering.
The Blu-Ray had a White optimisation 'bar' and a Black optimisation 'bar'.I picked a scene with objects in a shadow(natural light).The Blu-Ray player had a 'Preview Scene' feature where one could adjust the chosen parameter whilst watching the effect on the scene.The detail within the shadow simply emerged as I adjusted the Black optimisation 'bar'.
I was blown away at how much better the picture was.
I'd seen criticism of the LG CRT for what had been called 'Clayface' on the internet.Unnatural skin-tones.Indeed I was having trouble eliminating it.
The solution ended-up being adjustments made to both the Blu-Ray player,and the CRT.
I've finally ended-up with a picture which is not perfect(I don't know how to describe what I am seeing),but is quite amazing in it's detail.Even up close to the screen the pixelation is difficult to notice.
All in all,I'm very happy with both the Blu-ray player and the LG HD CRT.