Ouch! cracked Plasma TV front glass

[Ed Pawlowski]

Brighter, yes. But I don't want to see a reflection of the lamp in the TV background as often happens with that shiny screen.

[Doug]

Sorry, only 3 Samsungs in our house so far. They replaced the 4 or 5 old ones (Panasonic, Sanyo, Sony, ???). Actually 4 Samsungs if you count my daughter who lives near by of which I own 1/2 of her tv .

[Doug]

Ed, I can't speak about Plasma since I never owned one but my Samsung LCDs have adjustments for brightness / darkness which help to a degree. I guess it's subjective to how much. To be honest, I never change my setting and it seems my (surgically aided) eyes adjust to the tv.

[Bob_Villa]

LED is a type of "back-lighting"...not a type of display in use on TVs at this point.

[HeyBub]

Just a thought:

Since the TV is trashed anyway, why not clear off a large space on your workbench and disassemble it?

You might find that the front glass is just that: a piece of glass!

If so, you can get a replacement from a glass shop.

I had a 25" LCD monitor go belly up and wash ashore. Checking the web, I found that capacitors for this particular model were flaky. Taking the list from the web site, I bought 11 capacitors (as I recall about six dollars) and, deftly wielding a soldering iron, replaced them. Monitor now works perfectly.

Point is, you can't kill a corpse. I'd invest a couple of hours in a possible cure.

[George]

Isn't "this 20" is a lot different than that 27" " something of an apple an orange thing?

[George]

I think in general a smaller monitor will always look better than a bigger monitor.

[Pete C.]

SFB, matsuSHITa is the parent company of the Panasonic, Techniques, Quasar and probably a number of other brands.

[Pete C.]

LG most likely OEMd the LCD panel used in the Acer monitor. LG owns the largest LCD factory in the world last I knew.

[Pete C.]

Most of the time when someone reports this type of apparent issue, they are either comparing an analog signal to a digital one or have the phasing settings misadjusted on an analog input. I use my 26" LG HDTV/monitor for CAD work much of the time and it is crystal clear.

[Pete C.]

I've yet to find any "good" Panasonic gear and I've had the misfortune to use a lot of it. I recall the much maligned Goldstar brand way back when, and the fact that while everyone claimed it was a POS, the stuff just kept working flawlessly year after year.

[Pete C.]

Are you saying you don't file a CT sales and use tax return on your out of state untaxed purchases?

[Pete C.]

No such thing as an LED TV at this point, possibly in the future. Today's options are LCD or plasma basically. LED only refers to the backlighting of the LCD panel. Early LCD panels used fluorescent backlighting, and I don't think very many of those are even made anymore. LED backlighting comes in a number of flavors these days with edge lit being the common less expensive variant. Some LED backlit LCD TVs have the LEDs behind the LCD in an array that is actively controlled to reduce backlight in areas with a darker image to increase the contrast ratio. I think a few high end units even use RGB LEDs similarly to enhance colored areas of the image with matching backlight.

[Metspitzer]

Could you point me to a site where this is discussed.........slowly :) My 27 inch is using an HDMI cable and the 20-21 is using a DVI cable. The 20 does 1080P but does not have an HDMI port.

When I first noticed the difference, the 27 was using a 20ft HDMI cable. I changed it to a 6ft HDMI that is barely long enough to reach the tower. It may have helped a little.

The program that makes the noticeable difference is Winmx. I really don't notice it using IE or FF. But with Winmx the difference is really noticeable.

[krw]

Wrong.

[dpb]

Actually, Matsushita _was_ Panasonic originally (from 1918 roughly?) altho setup as different brand names. In 2008 Matsushita retired the founder's name in favor of Panasonic and essentially reorganized/renamed the company dropping Matsushita.

SANYO became a subsidiary in 2009.

I'm not sure about but a quick look doesn't show Quasar/Techniques/others as subsidiaries...a more than thorough recounting is available at

[krw]

That's not right either. The link below doesn't say what you think it does. The *company* goes back to 1918 but the "Panasonic" name dates only back to the '50s. It was known as "National" before that but they couldn't use the name in the US (there was already a "National Radio") so came up with the "Panasonic" (Pan-American-Sound, or some such) brand.

Yes, it was started/run by a relative (cousin, IIRC) and absorbed, as you say.

I think the Wikipedia article goes into some more detail but I haven't looked it up in a while.

[Duesenberg]

Matsushita is no longer used as a corporate name. The name was dropped around 2008. The company uses Panasonic as the corporate parent name now globally.

Panasonic is a very trustworthy name so that's why they changed the name. Plamsa TVs are a Panasonic strength.

Does SFB means shit for brains? It used to in the old IRC days. Because if it does, you may want to retract that on this particular issue.

[Pete C.]

A very recent name change does not in any way mean that matsuSHITa was not indeed the parent company of Panasonic. As for Panasonic quality, I spent far too many years having to use their garbage and having it fail right out of the factory sealed box to consider it remotely trustworthy.

[clare]

As with ANY product, there is high end and low end fron each manufacturer. A cheap of any brand will be poorer than a good of any other brand, with some natable exceptions where an incredibly low priced product CAN blow away its higher priced competition. Can't predict which company and model it will be from quarter to quarter though.