For most TV lovers, there is a continual battle between what you love the most about your television, and what makes you want to throw it out the window. The first comparison we will make is that one of these TVs is heavier than the other, so please bend your knees when you lift!

A Plasma Television is basically 2 pieces of glass with millions of gas filled cells trapped between them, this is your Plasma Screen. To reproduce a picture, the plasma gasses within these 2 pieces of glass are induced with electricity and become ionized, causing a layer of phosphor on the viewing side of the screen to light up.
LCD Television uses Liquid Crystal Display technology, displayed through a thin, flat monitor, made up of a number of colour or monochrome pixels arranged in front of a light source or reflector. Each individual pixel is divided into three cells or sub pixels of red, green and blue, with the ability to be controlled independently to illuminate thousands or millions of possible colours for each pixel.
What are important are the differences between them. For both Plasma and LCD there are benefits that the other cannot, as of yet, compare.

Notable Benefits and Features of:
 The Plasma TV:

1. Plasma Screens have been historically more competent at providing a larger screen for viewing pleasure, combining a sleek and compact base to support the large screen capability.
2. Plasma TVs are available in a wide variety of sizes, exceeding 42”, 50” and a television fanatics dream 60+” screen size.
3. Wider Viewing Possibilities are a major feature of the Plasma. A benefit for a smaller room, as well as for a larger one, where viewers may be placed off to one side or the other, and at wider angles.
4. Plasma brightness is remarkable due to the fact that the screens do not facilitate a light source reflecting off of something. The brightness is distributed evenly across the screen.
5. Pixels are simultaneously lit up on the screen, allowing progressive sources to be displayed to full benefit.
   

The LCD TV:

1. LCDs can easily handle progressive-scan sources, using millions of transistors that are able to be individually controlled.
2.  High Resolution - LCDs can display High Definition content with resolutions of 1366x768. The highest resolution achieved in a LCD is 1920x1080.
3. Excellent Colour Reproduction - LCDs can display millions of colours accurately.
4. With LCDs there is no problem of ‘Burn In’ where ghost images are permanently burned into the screen, which Plasmas depending on phosphors can experience.
5. LCD TVs have a plethora of multifunctional connectivity options. They typically include inputs for composite video, S-video, High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) and PC In.

Technology in both Plasma and LCD TVs is advancing so rapidly, that in time you may want to throw out your TV despite whether it is LCD or Plasma, just to get the newest features.