LCD or Plasma?

flutterflye

I have no idea if this is the right place to be posting this or not.
If not, can someone please tell me where to post it?

Anyway, I have 2 young children - one has special needs, and both are extremely destructive, especially the one with special needs.

I don't want to spend a few hundred on a tv that will end up broken within a week.

I was told by the guy in the shop I went into that plasma tvs are pretty much indestructible, whereas lcd ones could easily be broken by my kids.

My husband says that anyone he has spoken to says that there is no difference in the destructibility between the 2, and that lcd is a much better visual quality.

Has anybody any idea at all if there is any truth in what I was told about plasmas being harder to brake than lcds?

Thank you

Tea 1000

flutterflye wrote: »

I have no idea if this is the right place to be posting this or not.
If not, can someone please tell me where to post it?

Anyway, I have 2 young children - one has special needs, and both are extremely destructive, especially the one with special needs.

I don't want to spend a few hundred on a tv that will end up broken within a week.

I was told by the guy in the shop I went into that plasma tvs are pretty much indestructible, whereas lcd ones could easily be broken by my kids.

My husband says that anyone he has spoken to says that there is no difference in the destructibility between the 2, and that lcd is a much better visual quality.

Has anybody any idea at all if there is any truth in what I was told about plasmas being harder to brake than lcds?

Thank you

Plasma's are still ahead of LCD in terms of picture quality when everything is measured up, but the newest LED back-lit LCD's have really closed the gap. There are pro's and con's to both.
However, because people hold the myth that LCD's are better and can't be convinced otherwise, it means that Plasma's are much better value. You can spend €700 on a very good 42" Plasma with picture quality that you'd have to double your spend to get close to in the LCD range.
Plasma's typically would be more solidly built, and Panasonic's range in particular have been strengthened to take the force of Wii-mote's being accidently flung at them. Many other TV's also have. I've seen first hand the demonstrations of whacking the crap out of a Panasonic Plasma, which had no ill-effect whatsoever.
Don't expect either type to survive falling off the table onto the floor though. Also, it might be better to use the support hole at the back where you can screw the TV down to the stand so it won't fall on your kids.

cnocbui

Plasma TVs by Panasonic are near unbeatable in terms of picture quality. LCDs do not give better picture quality

Get a wall mount bracket and mount it up on the wall out of reach of the children.

flutterflye

Thank you both for replies.

Now I'm off to gloat to my husband about how I was right!