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Plasma Vs LCD

October 9th 2006 10:55

Screen Vs Screen

The contentious Plasma versus LCD battle has surely engrossed your lounge room, group of friends or during a verbal battle with your fellow work mates. After much debate one will intelligently choose the plasma while another will move wisely towards an LCD. One can quite easily make the blunder in thinking both screens are quite similar due to their physical similarities, unfortunately that couldn’t be further than the truth.

Plasma screens use a matrix of tiny gas plasma cells charged by precise electrical voltages to create an image. While an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen is basically a whole lot of Liquid Crystal blocks bunched up and jammed between two glass plates, images are created by varying the amount of electrical charge to the crystals. Both types of technology have been widely accepted by the public while alternate views have been formed as to which form of technology one should choose.

Of the two, a plasma is known to have better contrast due to its ability to project deeper blacks, plasma screens also provides better viewing angles, however LCD screens are improving in that area with the release of more and more LCD panels. LCD screens can also blur up during ‘fast moving’ scenes such as a car chase etc. Size is also a big factor with both styles of TV. A plasma screen can be up to 62 inches wide while an LCD will usually cut out at about 42 inches wide. The principal advantage a plasma TV has over its smaller contender is price, an LCD is generally more expensive across all sizes.

There are also excellent advantages in buying an LCD, an LCD is a lot lighter than a plasma panel and although LCD screens are generally pricier they will save a lot more energy than a plasma, an LCD can save a household up to 30% more. From a consumer perspective its other major benefit is its life span, as LCD is guaranteed to last up to 60,000 hours, while the early plasmas were known to only last up to 20,000 hours. Since the early days plasmas have improved significantly to allow for a longer lifespan of between 30,000 and 60,000 hours.

After comparing both screens it’s hard to pick an outright winner. Although some may debate otherwise in my opinion a plasma screen is suited to larger viewing audiences or the cinema type environment. An LCD in comparison is far more conventional and practical due its money saving prowess. It really does depend on the buyer and what he or she is looking for in a TV, in concluding buy the TV that is most suited to your budget and personal space.

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The Embarrasing Truth

October 8th 2006 08:53

This week has again marked a sad day in the U.S. A crazed gunman walked into an Amish school and killed 5 innocent school girls, the motives behind the shooting are unapparent as they usually are but it was an obvious attack on a group of victims who live in the purest of societies. The Amish are a people who like to seclude themselves from the daily grind in a colony environment where basic needs like a TV are simply not a necessity.

If one was to research the shooting for some information on how this guy approached his prey, the evidence is pretty damning. He was carrying three guns, a shotgun, a rifle and a semi-automatic not to mention he had 600 rounds of ammunition sitting in his car!! What is the guy down the street doing with that much ammo?? He’s ready for a war not 5 young children who live in an Amish community. I have never been to the U.S and live in a society where you can go for a walk at night without feeling threatened. I’m assuming Pennsylvania and that particular rural town must be quite dangerous.

To me its sounding warning bells on the crazy gun laws they have in the country. If you look back over the years and the number of shootings that have taken place in schools, shopping centres and the like, one has to question the severity of guns and the lack of accountability from members of the community. In 2003 there were 11,920 Homicides in the U.S (State Illinois Council against Handgun Violence) while 80 million people own a gun which is absurd when the population of the country is 295 million, almost one third of the nation carries a firearm.

The stem of the problem starts with the leaders of the country, gun and rifle associations happen to provide a lot of the funding for political parties across the nation, labelling the problem as incurable unless the leaders of these parties start condemning the use of guns. In a society full of violence this would be a practical solution considering the amount of violent attacks from members of the general population. They’re not breeding an army but a culture where firearms are dominating their existence.

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