it depends on the room if you have a room with lots of natural light go for led as they're brighter but if there is no natural light or if you game at night or can control the light easily go for a plasma. id go for a Samsung led or a Panasonic plasma (both cases make sure its 1080p) lg dont usually have that good colour reproductions(in the store they use very controlled environments where the videos are suited for the very saturated colour profiles they use) whats the model number of the 55 inch panasonic?

at this point TVs have such a high contrast that unless you have a really incredible eye I doubt you'll see a difference between TV's these days; beside temp color of-course. There will always be TVs that look bluer (Samsung) or more reddish (Panasonic) than others and I always go for the reddish ones because the colors look more natural.

Old HDTV's had the problem with lag and ghosting and with the new ones is the dejudder. So what you really need to look into when buying a new TV is not the contrast and color but which one does the best job at smoothing the annoying dejuddering effect. And believe me, if you haven't notice it already, most PS3/Xbox games are at 30 frames and they try to soften the effect with camera based blur and stuff but it doesn't work that well if you ask me. When you move the camera around the evil dejudder is always there ruining the image and making your eyes hurt. And the lower the frame-rate the worse it gets so, it is a real problem for movies which are filmed at 24 frames.

http://youtu.be/j3ydVKYE9fM

And yes, 240hz fixes it and it's incredibly good for movies but for games it ads tons of lag to the controller and every game will feel heavy like Killzone 2. So concentrate on high-quality panels that do it natively without the help of that gimmick.

Plasma panels > LCD/LED until new tech like OLED comes out.

Buy a Plasma. Its cheaper, better image quality, no ghosting or judder so better for gaming.

It's better but far from overcome . At least unless you go for higher end models .

Black are still way better on some plasma models , again especially panasonic , and less lag is a definitive advantage for a gamer over electricity consumption

Yeah. No

I personnally like the frame extrapolation process (what you clal the soap opera effect). I think it makes sports look better, and blu-ray are crazy good. But I know I'm in the minority here (just look at the reactions from the 48 FPS for the Hobbit lol).

But frame-extrapolation has a clear advantage for gaming. For fast games such as Burnout or Infamous (when you run), the LG trumotion improves the game considerably, everything is so smooth, it's like playing at 60-120fps. If I turn it off, I notice it right away.

If you game, you should go with LED anyway. You can always turn some of the video processing off.

People love a cheap TV!