There are three major types of flat panel HDTV displays, PDP (Plasma Display Panel), LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) and DLP (Digital Light Processing) televisions.
Plasma TV:
Major advantages: Superior brightness, deeper black level, better contrast ratio, greater color spectrum and faster response time, hence sharper, richer-color and smoother-fast-motion pictures.
Major disadvantages: High power consumption and heat generation (as much as traditional CRT TV), permanent ghost images created by "burn-in" (prolonged display of an image, e.g., menu bar, logo, etc.), retentive ghost images caused by extended display of pixels at high brightness (such ghost images will disappear after running random TV contents or powering off for a certain period of time), muddy images result from gradually declining image quality over periods of time.
LCD TV:
Major advantages: Higher available resolutions, lower power consumption, less heat generation and no "burn-in" of permanent ghost images.
Major disadvantages: Lower contrast ratio, poor black level (dark is not completely dark), narrower color spectrum, "motion blur" (jitter/ghost images in fast motion pictures) caused by slower response time.
DLP TV:
Major advantages: 3 D-image viewing option, a much greater color spectrum produces finer details and colors in images, excellent gray scale and contrast, faster response time gives no "motion blur", no "burn-in", no limit in screen size.
Major disadvantages: "Silk-screen" effect (texture of the TV screen seen in front of images) visible with bright white or very light colored images, "screen-door" effect (pixel grids visible in images) at close distance, more noticeable dithering noise in dark images, poor color rendition with bright red and yellow at high brightness, poorer viewing angle than plasma or LCD TVs.
The "rainbow effect" (brief flashes of perceived red, blue and green "shadows observed in contents with bright objects on a dark background) of single-chip DLP TVs may cause eye strain, headaches or migraines.
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