Hi, sorry in advance if this was covered, but I didnt have time to read 12 pages of posts to see if it has been covered, and I have a limited amount of time.
I stopped reading around page 4 and all I seen going back and forth was Plasma burn-in this, and LCD black level that.
I have had two HD TV's home. First was an LG 42'' Plasma which I loved SOOOOOOOO very much, BUT!!!, when I played my Nintendo Wii on it, it had very anoying lag between when I pressed a button and when the TV showed the responce. It was only a fraction of a second, maybe a half at most, but it was enough for me to say Its going back.
Someone I knew who has an LG 42" LCD said they had no issue with game Lag So I exchanged my plasma for an LCD. Well that too has game lag. The same amount of game lag actually.
Now that I have this LCD home, I am very dissipointed with the picture quality. It does look great, yes, but not as good as the plasma. Dim areas of a show have real bad artifacting when trying to create shadows. I cant remember because I didnt have the plasma very long, but I dont recall the plasma doing this. I do remember the feeling of wow while looking at the plasma and the feeling of blah when viewing the LCD.
Anyways. My LCD will be going back to the store now too because its got a problem with wanting to turn itself on at night. Have taken the batteries out of the remote and still turns on. Ill wake up in the middle of the night with the TV turned on, try to turn it off, and it turns on again in a few minutes.
So that being said, I want to go back to a plasma because I loved it so much, and I dont care about Burn-in (wont be an issue with me, I dont play many games and dont have kids), so anyone know of a good brand that doesnt not have Game lag?
LG is right out, and I dont know if Sharp makes a Plasma and I want to stick with 42" and max $2000 ish range.