The big VR game review

Yeah, a lot did, but the 'calls' text that would pop up from time to time is horrible, it really is.

Check the difference between SD and HD in the game at some point if you can, you'll see exactly what I mean.

You got a Desktop PC? If so I recommend getting a 360 - VGA adaptor and use your PC monitor from time to time. It'll let you play in HD that way.

I'd actually recommend this to everyone with an SD TV, its the cheapest and a pretty damned effective way of doing it. The only flaw is you need to sort out your own audio set up too.

To answer both your questions.

I have no idea. TV is something i only have a cursory knowledge of. However, I do know that Plasma's are quite a bit cheaper than LCD's of equivalent size. I saw a 42" LG advertising itself as 1080p for about £700 in a high street store the other month.

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To answer both your questions.

I have no idea. TV is something i only have a cursory knowledge of. However, I do know that Plasma's are quite a bit cheaper than LCD's of equivalent size. I saw a 42" LG advertising itself as 1080p for about £700 in a high street store the other month.

I honestly thought you'd know about these things but BAM you let me down.

Has anyone played Ace combat 6? I was thinking of getting that instead of COD4

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I'd actually recommend this to everyone with an SD TV, its the cheapest and a pretty damned effective way of doing it. The only flaw is you need to sort out your own audio set up too.

On the subject of HD, do you know what panels display 1920x1080 for true native 1080P as opposed to ones that are slightly different resolutions (as I'm led to believe this can be the case) also is plasma better than LCD for games? or Vice versa? Looking at spending around £800 on a new telly in the new year, so will be going for something "spicy" BAM.

Depends what you're looking to get out of your TV, really. LCD TVs work through columns of liquid crystal molecules, operated by a system of transistors. Some of these transistors can be, or over a period of time, become defective and the larger TV you have, the harder this issue can be to avoid. Not only this but LCD TV's are back-lit so, say you've got a load of mates round for a united match, bare in mind that viewing angles greater than 45 degrees are susceptible to wash-out. Not only this but because LCD's have a response cycle of around 4 milliseconds to 25 milliseconds, it's possible you can experience a relatively small amount of motion blurring. On the plus side, power consumption is a lot lower than Plasmas if you're worried about your utilities and you could probably get a good 20+ years out of it before the colour starts to fade.

Plasma screens work in a slightly different way by lighting up tiny cells of xenon and neon gas, trapped between two plates of glass. These screens are pretty bright and have good contrast between shades, with deep blacks. Unlike the back-lit LCDs, they have quite wide viewing angles, without any real noticeable wash-out so definitely much better for a few cold tins and footy, or mutli-player gaming. The downside is the high power consumption, the fact that they generally don't last nearly as long as the LCD televisions the increased possibility of screen burn from static images (although this has been greatly reduced since they were first put on the market).

Basically the general consensus seems to be, if you want a large TV and have a few quid to throw about, go for plasma, if you want a smaller one, go for LCD. It is also worth baring in mind that a lot of industry professionals still say a good branded CRT gives just as sharp a picture than most HDTVs on the market at the moment. However, if you want it predominantly for gaming, it's worth making the step-up and I'd advise going into a few stores first, looking at the visual differences between the two makes, see what you think looks best and you can always shop around online afterwards to find the most appropriate model/cost.

It's also worth baring in mind that picture quality from tv works on the bandwidth of the actual channels rather than the TV itself, so in some shops, if they've got a channel on with a fairly low bandwidth, it's not going to show off what the TV might be capable of producing. It's a bit of a ballache, but worth thinking about.