What Flat Panel Monitors Do you Like?

[TelehealthMan]

Hi Fellow VC Geeks :)
I am ordering some new Tandberg HD systems and am investigating the best displays to hook up to these new units.
I would like to hear other people's opinions on what type of Flat panel Monitors are best.
I am sure there are a few of you in the same position; looking for good flat panels that can accomodate HD at an attractive price.

Personally I avoid Plasmas because of the burn in issues.

I demoed a wide throw projection system that would be nice in a rear projection integrated environment but these are still a bit expensive and esoteric.

LCDs are getting cheaper and bigger every month so I am leaning that way.

I am intrigued by the thin panel rear projection systems like DLP and LCOS.

Has anybody tried one of these??
$2699.99 canadian at BestBuy.
Samsung 61" Widescreen DLP Projection HDTV** (HLS6166)
Samsung HLS6166 HDTV 1280 x 720 resolution.

SONY has a 60 inch LCOS model that is a few thousand more but is 1080i native resolution (as far as I can tell). I am a bit concerned as to how a 720 p image (or lower) would look on a monitor with 1080i native resolution.

Any informed opinions out there?

Cheers
TelehealthMan

[Morgan81]

It all depends on how much space you have to deal with.

[tonyi]

You might want to give LG professional a look see. I've been very impressed with the 50" plasmas from them. They look much better than alot of the Pioneers and Sony's i've tested with. And are useually alot cheaper.

[TelehealthMan]

Thanks for all your replies to the Poll. Looks like LCD technology is out in the lead with Plasma in second place. Any of you Plasma users noticing burn in?
Cheers
TelehealthMan

[Oliver Black]

I had one consumer grade Samsung with a slight burn-in. We currently have been using Electrograph (commercial grade) and not had any issues...

[TelehealthMan]

Anybody like Sharp the new AQUOS LCDs? i have one and it does 1080p
The picture is very very nice! The price is a little high.

[nello]

no burn-in problems with Pioneer 50" plasma pdp-502mxe. Standby power consumption 0.6W

[Shawn Jones]

I selected all of them, as each is good for it's particular environment.

I used to be in the integration business, and this is somewhat of a general question. Kind of like asking what type of car to buy without telling us you are going to drive it off-road three-quarters of your use, and having Ferrari's, Lambo's, and Land Rovers in your list.

If you could be a bit more specific on your application, you will get a more usable result.

Thanks

[erf2076]

I had one consumer grade Samsung with a slight burn-in. We currently have been using Electrograph (commercial grade) and not had any issues...
Oliver, I see you are using an Electrograph are you using VGA or S-Video? Also, if your using VGA where do you have your audio plugged into? ie. AV1/AV2/or AV3

Thank you
Erin

[Oliver Black]

Looking from the back, there is an audio input next to the DVI input connector. That is the input to use for the VGA or DVI input...

[machuky]

Hi,

to respond to your question, we are using beamers, plasmas and LCD in my corporate environment. I wouldn't recommend plasmas, as they are pretty expensive and all of them have burn in problems ( Sonys and LGs ). Sometimes less than one year of use is sufficient to degrade these screens ( from my personnal experience of course, I'm not benchmarking hundreds of them ).
Beamers are nice, but need very good rooms when coming to light. Plus if you feed them with non HD or at least non HD-Ready, they tend to be ( or get ) blurry, so they need to be setted up from time to time. Oh, and I forgot about the cost of the bulbs. More than expensive.
My favourites are certainly the LCDs. When coming to precision, they have the best image. Less expensive than plasmas now. Lighter too. Lots of great brands. Sony and Samsung are excellent, but we have a few LGs that are very good, except maybe for sound ( the weight of the speakers alone says a lot compared to some other brands ).

So only my two cents, but I certainly would consider a 50'' LCD these days ( or bigger if you can afford it ).

Hope it helps.