The buying of large-screen TVs has absolutely skyrocketed lately. It seems that everyone wants one and with good reason. The large-screen TV has come a long way from those faded-out behemoths of old that took up half your living room and never really produced a picture of decent quality. Now, however, especially in combination with HDTV, you can get not only a nice, large picture, but a crisp, clean one too.
Once you decide that youre ready for a large-screen TV, you quickly discover that you only really have two main options a plasma TV or an LCD TV. Plasma TVs were first on the scene, but the recent mass production of LCD TVs by major manufactures has put LCD TVs pretty much on equal footing with plasmas. That said, you will still have to make a choice.
If youre like most people, you not only have no idea how the two differ, you dont even know the areas you should be considering in order to determine how they differ. But they do indeed differ, and knowing the difference is extremely important if youre going to get the TV thats right for you.
You can essentially boil the differences between plasmas and LCDs into twelve basic points. In some areas,...