TV Buying Guide-2: LCD Televisions

LCD (liquid crystal display) is best known as the technology behind high-quality PC monitors but in the last few years they have also established themselves in the consumer television market.

The basic technology consists of three LCD panels of blue, green and red colours through which light is passed to produce the picture. Like Plasma TVs they are extremely thin; as little as a couple of inches and therefore look great as part of your living-room. Another advantage is that LCD’s don’t have any problem with burn-in (when a static image gets permanently burnt on to the screen).

LCDs don’t produce blacks as well as plasma or CRT but they are very bright and easy to view in even brightly lit rooms. They have long lives of up to 60,000 hours. While they don’t reach the same size as plasma models they are continuously getting bigger and the largest available models of around 82 inches are more than enough for most home theatre needs.

LCD monitors are also getting cheaper every year and models like the 50 inch Sony KDFE50A10 are significantly cheaper than similarly sized plasmas and close to the price of DLPs.

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