Samsung LCD LN55B650 or Samsung Plasma PN58B650

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Originally Posted by NuSoardGraphite

Actually, a Plasma is better for gaming. LCD's suffer from input lag, which can interfere with many timing-sensitive game genres like some FPS's, Fighting games and rythym games (like Rockband or DDR).

People say LCD's are better for gaming becuase of Plasma burn-in, which years ago was an issue, but the newer plasma sets have been built to be far more burn-in resistant. incidents of burn-in are quite rare these days and with a good quality plasma, should be fairly non-existant. Keep in mind that CRT's also can experience burn-in, but that didn't stop people from playing videogames on them.

To each his own, but to me LCD is better for gaming. I first bought a Samsung 42" Plasma (HPS4253) for gaming. It looks good, but it suffers from Image Retention alot. Even now, when I'm on my xbox dashboard, and it switches to a brighter color screen , you can see text and outlines from what was previously on the scren.. Even in movies, if a certain scene switches to all black (like a night scene), you still see the outline of the bright imaage in grey. I've never had a "burn-in", but Image Retention gets annoying after a while. But hey, maybe its just the model I bought. It is almost 3yrs old.

I sinced then purchased a Samsung 32" LCD (LN32A450) for my bedroom and is a much improvement over the plasma for gaming. I come to conclude that blu ray movies look brighter on it as well. Latency on LCD's are not a problem for me. And I play just about every FPS/3rdPS and Rythem games out there for the 360.