Flat panel television provides an astonishing viewing experience. With their ultra-thin cabinets, superior versatility, and overall performance, plasma television and LCD television sets are quickly becoming commonplace in homes and business across the U.S. Plasma Television and LCD television, with their decreasing price points and performance improvements are a very desirable alternative to the standard CRT set. These flat panel television sets are thin and light enough to mount on the wall. Additionally, the picture offers exceptional resolution and detail and quality.

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Flat panel televisions larger than 50”, a plasma television outperform in terms of picture quality but may be more expensive at 1080P resolution

Flat panel televisions up to 42” LCD television will be, generally, more competitive

Both Plasma and LCD have about the same level of brightness. Nevertheless, LCD's are generally recommended for bright environments. This is still a sound recommendation because LCD's generally have a matte screen whereas plasma screens are shiny because they are glass and there is more of a problem with reflections.

Plasma television can display more variations of deeper blacks than an LCD television which results in better detail during dark scenes.

LCD televisions cannot display true blacks as accurately due to the technology which it was founded, the backlight that is displayed through the LCD layer will always result in some light to be displayed from between the pixels. Although newer generations of LCD are dramatically improving their black levels, in general plasma televisions have an advantage in the area of contrast.

Most high definition sets, whether plasma or LCD, have a resolution of 1,024 x 768 pixels. Looking at the second number, anything over 720 is considered high definition. Newer flat panels have appeared that have a higher resolution (1920 x 1080 pixels). These are called “1080P” of “Full HD”.

Everything else being equal, a higher resolution is better than a lower resolution. But of course everything is usually not equal, so it is helpful to look at other specifications. Higher resolution is also more useful the closer you sit to your monitor. As you move farther away from the monitor the higher resolution makes less of a difference. Also, higher resolution sets are more expensive.