Duane, you said "You might want to verify this but a salesman at a local store mentioned that gaming on a plasma tv shortens its life. In my case the plasma as way more expensive than the lcd I was looking at ..."
I've gamed on just about all the HDTV formats and you just can't beat plasma if you're into fast action. Chess and other slow strategy games run fine on LCD flat screens, but scenarios requiring super speed really suffer from LCD's inherently slow screen refresh rates. Because plasma paints a picture on phosphors rather than lighting up pixels one at a time, there is no refresh rate time lag. I've also never heard that the life expectancy of plasmas, or any other screen types, is affected by the content of the programming -- games, movies, football, slide shows -- they're all a series of electical zeros and ones to any digital display, the set really doesn't know (and if it did, it probably wouldn't care) whether you're playing a game, watching the morning farm report or wondering what stupid thing was going to happen next on Desperate Housewives. I am very puzzled about your remark on pricing. Are you sure you weren't looking a rear-projection LCD set? Like DLP models, those are basically entry level HDTV receivers generally priced lower than plasmas. Flat-panel LCDs however, largely because of the high failure rate and consequent huge warranty costs, are almost always much more expensive than same-size plasmas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:220992 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
