What's the difference between LCD, Plasma, DLP, and CRT TV's?
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They are all different ways of putting a picture on the screen. The LCD is the longest lasting of them all. It stands for Liquid crystal display. The screen is made up of little liquid cryatals in red blue and green dots. If you had a microscope you could see them. They are electronically charged If you have a lap top it is a LCD screen. CRT is old technology. It is a vacuum tube Cathode Ray Tube and the screeen is lighted by electon gun shooting at a phosfor (sp) coated screen. and then rapidly scanning back and forth. The palsma screen is middle technology where the screen is plazma coated and then electronically charged. The plasma can wear out with age. The LCD can get scratched and permanetly damaged just by an aprasive cleanser. The Best way to tell which gives you the best image is go look at them side by side in a store like best buy. What you really need to know is make sure what you buy has both a NTSC and a HDTV tuner built in. If its HDTV ready then you will need a seperate "box" to receive HDTV signal. The other thing you have to know is very soon all tv's will have to be HDTV and the old NTSC tv's will need a box.
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Generally speaking below 40" or so LCD is the way to go.. bigger then that Plazma is the only answer. Sharp electronics is introducing larger LCD sceens all the time. I am sure in time the lcd screen could be the size of a air craft carrier deck. I personally have a 32 inch LCD set i got on sale at BJ wholesale club. The brand is Olevia made by Syntax. Not a better known brand but it works well and I can use it for a computer monitor too and it was under $400 on sale. If it breaks I have no clue to call but for $389. It was the largest and cheepest LCD set BJ's had. Now if more programs came in HDTV or if the dish companies would wake up and offer more hdtv service I would be happier.
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