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I must be getting old: Television technology has me stumped

The last time we got a television was one my son gave us about six years ago -- maybe seven? It's a nice but very heavy digital television with a 28 or 32 inch diagonal screen, I don't even recall that much. I do know it's heavy, and that it takes up a lot of depth setting in the corner of our living room on the entertainment center where it perches.

I absolutely do not understand new television technology. What, in terms that really MEAN something to me, is the big difference between a plasma TV and an LCD TV? If I get a plasma TV, and find a plasma TV mount to hang it from the ceiling on along one of my old house's walls -- why is that better or worse than a flatscreen LCD TV? And, is there a difference between flatscreen TVs and LCD TVs??

I've watched some news features on various television shows comparing all the TV technology and talking about buy and giving them for gifts. But I really don't understand any more about it than I did before I watched the so-called "explanations."

All I can conclude is this: It'll be a few years in this economy before I can get the money for a new TV anyway.
[tags]plasma TV, plasma TV mount, LCD TV, flatscreen TV, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]