Are you in the market for a new flat-panel TV? Chances are, you were first attracted to the big, bright images and superthin screens of plasma. But then, perhaps, you started reading about liquid-crystal-display TVs and couldn't help but notice that they also offered big, bright images and even thinner screens. Now you're probably stuck wondering which technology to buy. (It's bad enough we're moving from an analog to a digital TV system with a whole new screen shape, but now we have to contend with dueling flat-panel technologies? Yeeesh!) Actually, there are very good reasons to choose either plasma or LCD. For now, their worlds don't really overlap, although that will surely change in the near future. The smartest thing to do is to understand how each system works, what its limitations are, how LCD and plasma compare price-wise, and what's coming down the pike.
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