Black Friday/Cyber Monday purchases

[Raz0rEdge]

So what kinds of purchases did you guys do over the black friday/cyber monday timeframe?

My wife ended up getting a Tonal workout machine for when the basement will be finished and I opted to put my current Samsung Plasma TV (about 9 years old) down in the basement as well and upgrade to new LG OLED TV. This TV should work really when for when I upgrade to the PS5 sometime next year when not having to fight the hordes for one right now.

 

[IWT]

for when the basement will be finished

Oh, Ashwin, I recognise this statement so well. It is the perpetual dream that one day, some day, it will all be done by which time you will need replace all the items you moved there in anticipation

Ian

 

[pigoo3]

No Black Friday/Cyber Monday purchases yet...but got to start super soon. Especially with Covid...pretty sure near 100% of my holiday purchases will be online.

Hey Ashwin...we have about a 9+ year old Samsung Plasma as well (50"). We haven't used it in years...moved it recently to our guest bedroom. We've totally moved on to LED TV's. We used to play our Playstation on the Samsung plasma...and it was absolutely terrible when it came to ghost images/burn in. After only like 30 seconds the static images were temporarily burned in/ghosting.

I think we've decided to go with a PS5 as well. We currently have a PS3...and thought about getting a PS4 when prices drop due to PS5 launch. But PS4 prices don't seem like they will drop much...and official retail price of PS5 is not much more than new PS4. Even used PS4's on ebay are selling for a bunch.

Like you said...will have to wait a bit until the PS5 craziness is over. Lol

- Nick

 

[Raz0rEdge]

Nick, that's strange about your Plasma having issues with games. I've got the 65" Samsung Plasma and that's been our primary TV since 2011 and I use it to play games on my PS4/Xbox One without any issues of ghosting or lag or anything.

The only reason I'm upgrading is that I'm getting the PS5 in the near future and would like to have the higher resolution 4K and so on.

 

[pigoo3]

Definitely had issues with our Samsung plasma. "Issues" may be too strong a word...since it works fine for watching regular TV. But when anything static is on the screen for say 30-60 seconds or longer (like onscreen menu's or static graphics in games)...there was definite ghosting of images. They would go away after a while once the image changed (nothing permanent).

Nothing in the setup settings helped. I believe there's a setting called "pixel shift"...when the image is shifted around by a few pixels every so often to prevent permanent burn-in (but not enough to notice while watching).

I checked things more closely...looks like our Samsung Plasma is more like 12-13 years old. Possibily making it an older generation plasma...and maybe having more image ghosting issues.

- Nick