What is a Plama set's response time?

[RWetmore]

I see that it isn't listed in the specs. I know it's supposed to be faster than LCD, but how much faster? How does plasma response time compare to CRT? What is typically the response time of a high quality DV CRT set??

Though rare, I have heard some plasma owners state they occasionally notice some motion blur with fast motion.

Thoughts???

[jonnythan]

As I understand it, plasmas refresh their pixels tens or hundreds of times per actual screen refresh, so it's pretty much a moot point.

[RWetmore]

Hmmmm. Is it faster than a CRT? What actually is the response time. I have heard that it isn't always faster than LCD - given today's improvements in LCD response times.

[tdavis21484]

Audioholics listed plasmas as "<8ms" in their new overview, but I think they're just being safe - my understanding is that the response time is less than 1 ms. Some plasmas get accused of having poor response times when it gets confused with lag, which is when the picture takes a little time to be processed before being displayed. However, these are two separate issues - response time is not a problem with plasma. Depending on the processing/scaling involved (dNie, I'm looking at you) it can take a noticable amount of time for the picture to reach the screen and be displayed.

You could probably consider it faster than CRT in a way, since technically, only one little spot on a CRT screen is being refreshed at a time, as the electron beam scans, while plasmas fully refresh constantly. This means no flicker.

[RWetmore]

If response time is never a problem with plasma, then why do some see motion blur???

[jedi.night]

[QUOTE=RWetmore]If response time is never a problem with plasma, then why do some see motion blur???[/QUOTE]


Probably more do to the source than the plasma.

[dark1x]

[QUOTE=RWetmore]Hmmmm. Is it faster than a CRT? What actually is the response time. I have heard that it isn't always faster than LCD - given today's improvements in LCD response times.[/QUOTE]
It's not CRT fast, but it is shockingly close. Having testing a number of newer LCD TVs, I can safely say that LCD isn't anywhere NEAR Plasma or CRT response time. DLP is fairly awful as well.

[Hedonist]

From a biological standpoint, I wouldn't worry about any response time <5 ms really as that certainly approaches the biological resolving power of our brain anyway. Most action potentials have a duration of 3-5 ms so anything faster than that will be subject to aliasing within our brians anyway.

[RWetmore]

So it seems no one can actually quote specs. I am getting conflicting information all over the place. Does anyone have any really good references on the subject??

Thanks.

[jonnythan]

"To ionize the gas in a particular cell, the plasma display's computer charges the electrodes that intersect at that cell. It does this thousands of times in a small fraction of a second, charging each cell in turn."

Thousands of refreshses per fraction of a second? Let's say 2000 refreshes per second.

0.5 ms.