Getting me a TV

[JC]

I've never really owned a TV and I've never really watched TV, but I'm thinking of buying me a TV. The only TV I ever bought was a 1980's Hitachi or something, which still sits proudly in my kitchen, connected to some 1970's Pong video game system. I'm thinking it's time to upgrade to a big ass flatscreen. Any recommendations? Pitfalls? I know nothing about these flatscreens and I hear they come in plasma, LCD and such...

[petik1]

Try something around 47 inch, LED. I prefer a more vivid, bright display. Try to get something with a wide variety of connection options.

[linkzpikachu]

as long as its a REALLY FUCKING HUGE samsung

[tonev]

Yeah i have a SAMSUNG and a SONY hdtv's and if you are going to use it for gaming you should get the samsung because of the fact that there is no reflection . If you are playing games and sitting near the SONY  tv and if there is light ( either daylight or by lamps )  you will see your reflection or the stuff in near the tv in the black color  but this is my exp with it maybe some other sony tv's are different... the only problem with the samsung tv is the fact that it turns slow but with the sony tv you pres the power button and it is on... but with the samsung tv you have to wait the red light to flas 3 times then the boot sound if you have it on and either if you turn of your tv quick and turn it on you have to wait again for example you see something on tv but you accidentally turn the tv off (it happened to me ) and then because of that waiting for the tv to turn on you miss some of the stuff (for example i was watching the news and i thought that there was nothing interesting going on and hit the red button but then something interesting was on and until  the tv turned on i missed some of the news )
If you want i can take pictures of both TV's with a game so you can see the difference
Oh and sorry for the long post

[VegaVegas]

The only thing I can say about that from my own experience:

-for oldschool gaming-use a "fat ass" TV
-for next-gen gaming (such as PS3, XBOX things etc.)-use an LCD/plasma TV

[hagai]

The only thing I can say about that from my own experience:

-for oldschool gaming-use a "fat ass" TV
-for next-gen gaming (such as PS3, XBOX things etc.)-use an LCD/plasma TV

-yup!! hes right!!!:D

[JC]

Thanks guys. I didn't think about reflection...

[jpx72]

The most annoying thing about some TVs is the thing called "blue screen". It's at least on my TV. The TV shows the blue screen when it gets no signal. So when you turn for example your Famicom, you have to wait some 2 seconds to turn from blue screen to the Famicom picture to show. But the worst thing is when you want to turn the console on and off instantly. You have to wait 2 secs to show the blue screen and then 2 secs to show the image again. So on one flip of a power button, you will loose 4 seconds of your time. Jesus that's annoying!

[FamicomRetroGamer]

I bought an LG LCD FullHD of 33.1" (84cm) and I'm very happy with the decision, tbh, I'm more of a LG fan than Samsung or Sony, don't really like Sammy or Sony TV but if there were no choice it'd be either.

My cousin's got a problem with his Samsung 42" Plasma and none with mine, plus when he boots the HDTV up, it always comes out a weird booting sound and then it's on. The heck.

[ericj]

I'm also thinking about getting a new TV, probably one around 65-73". The problem is that every large tv I look up tends to have major problems within the first year or has terrible motion blur. Anyone know of any models that aren't steaming piles of shit that are within the size range?