Did I ever tell you about the time that we bought a television? What a day! Actually it took two days. One for research and another to find a store. I evaluated LCDs and plasmas, and I figured I might as well post the results here.
Here's the criteria I used:
- Brand Reliability
- Picture Quality
- Screen Size
- Viewing angle
- # of component inputs
- # of HDMI inputs
- # of DVI inputs
- Ease of Use
I scored each TV from 1-100 based on how they met each of the criteria. It was a weighted score, so for example the brand reliability was weighted more heavily than the number of DVI inputs.
Here's how the plasmas stacked up:
- Panasonic TH-42PZ700U : 68
- Panasonic TH-42PX77U : 65.1
- Samsung HP-T426 : 63.4
- Panasonic TH-50PX75U : 62
- Samsung HP-T5064 : 59.3
- Hitachi UltraVision P42T501 : 57.6
- Samsung HP-T4254 : 56.3
- Hitachi P50H401 : 55.4
- LG 42PC5D : 54.9
- LG 50PC5D : 53.9
- Vizio JV50P : 52.4
- Sanyo DP50747 : 52.2
- Vizio P50HDTV : 48.8
- Norcent PT-5045HD : 46.8
- Vizio Maximvs VM60PHDTV10A : 37.3
- Maxent MX-58HPT51 : 37.3
And here's how the LCDs stacked up. We wound up getting the Sony at the top, I think.
- Sony Bravia KDL-40V3000 : 83.6
- Samsung LN-T4661F : 83.4
- Samsung LN-T3242H : 82.6
- Sony Bravia KDL-32XBR4 : 81.3
- Sony Bravia KDL-40S3000 : 78.7
- Samsung LN-T4671F : 78.3
- Toshiba Cinema Series REGZA 52LX177 : 75.5
- Toshiba REGZA 32HL67 : 75.5
- Sony Bravia KDL-46XBR5 : 73.2
- Panasonic TC-32LX700 : 72.9
- LG 37LB5D : 71.7
- Samsung LN-T4061F : 70.6
- Sharp Aquos LC-52D64U : 69.8
- Sony Bravia KDL-46W3000 : 69.6
- Samsung LN-T4053H : 69.4
- Sony Bravia KDL-32S3000 : 68.9
- JVC LT-47X788 : 68.5
- Toshiba REGZA 47HL167 : 68.1
- Sharp Aquos LC-52D82U : 67
- LG 52LB5D : 66.6
- LG 42LB5D : 66.6
- Vizio Gallevia GV47LF : 65.3
- LG 47LB5D : 65.1
- Toshiba REGZA 42HL6 : 64.8
- JVC LT-32E478 : 64.8
- JVC LT-37E478 : 64.3
- Sony Bravia KDL-46S3000 : 63.6
- Samsung LN-T5265F : 63.4
- JVC LT-42X688 : 63.4
- Toshiba REGZA 42HL167 : 62.6
- Vizio VU42LF : 62.1
- Vizio Gallevia GV52L : 61.1
- Mitsubishi LT-46133 : 60.9
- Vizio VW37LHDTV : 59.8
- Westinghouse TX-47F430S : 57.9
- Insignia NS-LCD37 : 57.8
- JVC LT-42E488 : 57.4
- Sanyo DP37647 : 56.8
- Mitsubishi LT-40134 : 56.6
- Olevia 537H : 56
- Westinghouse TX-42F430S : 55.5
- ViewSonic N3735w : 55.3
- Sharp Aquos LC-37D43U : 55
- Sharp Aquos LC-42D43U : 53.4
- Olevia 542i : 52.8
- Polaroid TLA-04641C : 51.9
- Sanyo DP42647 : 51.3
- Olevia 747i : 49.4
- RCA L42WD22 : 48.9
