Recent content by makinbiscuits

your best bet is to search for reviews of a tv you're looking for to find the actual contrast ratio after the TV was professionaly calibrated. Like ssdx said companies advertise dynamic contrast ratios which for all intents and purposes are made up numbers of nothing. You want to find real world...

plasmas at this point are nearly IR and burnin proof. I have a 60'' samsung plasma and I'm always either watching sports with scrolling text, letterboxed blu rays or gaming and I've yet to see a hint of IR and trust me, I've looked. There's an article from CNET about them trying to burn in an...

I would set your blu ray to output to 1080p (it's native resolution) that way you're not down converting to 720p from your bu ray and then reconverting to whatever resolution your tv is (most likely 1024x768). The less converting in the chain the better.

I'll admit I'm biased to plasma. I find their picture has a more natural color representation as well as a higher contrast ratio and deeper blacks. Plasma also has a film like quality to it. Now if you get into high end LED's with localized dimming you can get a picture comparable picture...