Okay...I'm going to waste 10 minutes of my study time and do this for you:
LCD can often display better HD images since the pixels are stitched together more closely. However the black levels of LCDs are appalling and you will often find that dark scenes will be bluish gray and there won't be much details. If you are a videophile then you will see that LCDs do not display a "true" colour skin tone of the actors. The good thing about LCDs is that they do not have a fan humming throughout the entire movie. Plasmas will also use more power and get hotter as well, unlike LCDs. Another con of LCDs is that when watching fast moving scenes, the details of the image will tend to be blurry and runny, this is also a main problem associated with LCDs.
PDPs (Plasma Display Panels) is the more favoured type for watching movies. You will however notice some "noise" - lumpy and grainy pixels - when watching in HD, hence PDPs are not as good as LCDs when watching HD contents. Plasma on the other hand, offer superior black levels and colour reproduction; PDPs also have better motion response, so you will not encounter blurry moving images, but clear and define palettes. The main issue with PDPs is that "burn ins" can kill your TV...burn ins are "printed" pixels that stay on the screen permanently and cannot be removed - this is due to the "gas pixels" bursting because they are static for a prolonged period of time.
04/11/2007
Cambridge Uni!