Samsung LCD LN55B650 or Samsung Plasma PN58B650

[playboidee]

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.

[azncarbos]

After check out both again...I'm more leaning toward the PN58...

Thanks for help and hope this help the OP too!

[NuSoardGraphite]

Originally Posted by playboidee

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.

You don't have to preach to me my friend. I'm the proud owner of a LN40A530. I love my samsung and I game a lot. I don't really play any time-sensitive games except DDR and Devil May Cry 3, but I've had no lag problem with them as of yet. A LOT of people complain about lag though, so I thought I'd mention the problem here.

The newer plasmas are very burn-in resistant, but Image Rention is another matter entirely. There are a lot of people who say they game on their plasmas with no problem whatsoever....maybe yours is having issues? I myself purchased an LCD over plasma because of Burn-in/IR issues (LCD's can get Image Retention as well, but its still far less common than Plasma IR) and matte screen for watching with sunlight shinning directly on it with no problems.