Plasma vs LCD

[SpacedTeddyBear]

Whatever you decide, you'd probably could catch some good deals in the coming weeks with the Consumer Electronics Show, and the Superbowl around the corner. Assuming American football is popular enough in Canada to warrant sales for the latter event.

You're kidding, right? I may not be the world's greatest handyman, but it's not exactly rocket science to sturdily attach a mounting bracket to a wall. All you have to do is find the stud. Obviously, you'd be foolish to rely on dry-wall anchors.

If anyone is actually dumb enough to dry-anchor a 40kg (possibly more) t.v to a wall, frankly deserves whats coming to him.

[andrewgpaul]

Some flat-panel TVs (usually larger screen sizes) have all the tuner and AV connection 'works' in a separate box, with one cable running from that to the TV. IMO, that would be a good choice if you were to wall-mount; only have one cable running up the wall, and it makes it easier to swap out DVD players, recorders, etc.

[Braedley]

Whatever you decide, you'd probably could catch some good deals in the coming weeks with the Consumer Electronics Show, and the Superbowl around the corner. Assuming American football is popular enough in Canada to warrant sales for the latter event.

Neither are a big factor in Canada. The best time to buy electronics is between Christmas day and new years day (Boxing Day, and the week that follows, now known as Boxing Week). Big screen TVs typically get reduced to within a couple hundred bucks above cost. It's the only time that basically every store has every big ticket item on sale.

[Sea Skimmer]

Personally, I'm a DLP fanboy. It has the truest colour (as long as it uses a colour wheel) of all technologies, and consumes no more power than an LCD set. No pixel burning, little to no pixel lag, and other advantages over LCD and Plasma.

DLP makes works a lot better for digital projectors then for a TV set