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- Gromit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+130 minutes to plasma burn-in?? After 13 months of use, my Panasonic plasma has ZERO burn-in, ghosting, etc. I've played countless hours of video games on it too. It's just not that much of a problem. WAY overhyped.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"dropping prices as much as $500 on plasma-screen TV's that retail for around $3,500."
read the article, the things are still gonne be a huge chunk of change. for that kind of cash I can just put a projection system in my basement. I'll just wait for the cheap ones in a few years to hit walmart and other places....for around 400 or 500 hundred bucks. - shawgo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I want a difital projector, but there is no place in my house that is ever dark enough. I would never buy Plasma TV. I might get an LCD screen if they go down in price soon.
- atbnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This would be great when it comes about. I'd love to have a plasma, but there is no way I can justify paying a couple grand for a TV.
- GuyNextDoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Yea, think I'll wait for another year or two"
That's fine, but of course, you can always say that no matter what year it is, and what the price of technology is. Technology always improves, prices usually always go down until they hit that point where they can't sell them for any less! If you wait another "year or two", then you just miss out on 2 years of actually using the Plasma! - einsteindesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0$20k down to $3k in 4-5 years, that's pretty good. Waiting for 1080p before I buy anything more than $1k.
"I want a difital projector, but there is no place in my house that is ever dark enough"
Pretty happy with my InFocus 4805 projector; 16x9 native and 1:1 pixels for DVD (no interpolation). Coupled to a cheapo ($99) Zenith DVT-412 (plus a few region-free codes) and you have a *very* decent beginner's home theater. $1100 for a 9-foot screen + 5.1/DTS/DD2 + DVD player. And it doesn't take 3 people to move it -- the projector only weighs like 6 lbs.
But yeah, it's worthless in daylight. Budget another $100-200 for blackout curtains. - jackusage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0you'll only get burn-ins if you watch a lot of mtv or sci-fi channel, etc. because of the logo in the corner
- GuyNextDoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'll probably snatch up a Dell 42" HD Plasma when it starts going for under 2K. I know they actually want to keep dropping the price, and their Plasmas are pretty good machines. There is no way an LCD is better than a Plasma at this point in time. LCD's do a horrible job with interpolation. Plasma is king of the big screen market. LCD works for sizes under 26" - but still needs to improve the tech!
Burn-in isn't a problem anymore, so no worries about ruining a several grand investment! - k3n85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thought it meant to $500, not dropping $500 to around $3000 .... weak, but still a diggable topic :D
Yea, think I'll wait for another year or two - turbo2ltr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0MTV isn't bad, it's the news channels like CNN and Fox that have the ticker on the bottom 24/7 that you'd want to be carefull of. Most of the channels use a transparent logo so the pixels still get a workout.
But Gromit is right. Burn in is way overhyped. I have thousands of hours on my Panasonic 42" plasma and there is no signs of burn in. The key is to have the contrast and brightness set up properly by either a professional or a DIY DVD like "Video Essentials". Dont just eyeball it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i paid 140 for my 27 inch flatscreen normal tv, im not buying ***** until i can get a 52 inch plasma for twice that.
- Gromit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0$10,000 for a 50" plasma that lasts 5 years?? Again, there's a lot of bad info floating around regarding plasma displays. I've had my 42" Panasonic HD plasma for 13 months now. I paid $3,900. A friend just bought a 50" Panasonic HD plasma for $3,500. Panasonic claims that their displays will reach *half brightness* in 60,000 hours. Half brightness. Considering that the first thing I did with my display was calibrate it using Video Essentials, which consists of turning the brightness WAY down, I think I can live with bumping the brightness up a bit over the course of the next 20.5 years (60,000 hours, 8 hours a day). Not that I watch 8 hours of TV a day or plan to use this thing for 20 years.
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of great options when it comes to buying a new TV. DLP, LCD, projection, CRT, etc. I don't think plasma is the best choice for everyone. It just drives me nuts that people seem to be so confused about plasma displays. - kloud213, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wasting not wasring
- turbo2ltr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you think "burn in" is a problem with Plasmas, then you obviously haven't seen the halflife of OLED. I wouldn't touch OLED until they can design it so it's brightness doesn't diminish significantly over time.
- Permanent4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Have as glorious a price war as you want. I'm still going to wait until the OLED technology matures. OLED TVs will trump all plasma, LCD and DLP TVs when they finally arrive.
Besides, I blew all my cash on a Treo 650... - disord3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0marshy: your flat screen will never hold a candle to some of these other TVs. You have a Tube CRT tv, which has NOTHING on a CRT-based RPTV.
Don't get my wrong - I'd love to get a 52 inch plasma for $300 also, but you seem to think your TV is something that it's not just because the glass in the front is flat like a plasma tv. (: - Hamsterpotpies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0$500 for a tv. god that is to much. my 20" tv was $100 and that was alot.
- jordan1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^^I guess you haven't seen Hidef programming. You wouldn't say that if you had.
- SilentSpyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's good because I find spending more than $400 on something to watch stupid reality TV shows and the occasianal good thing appaling.
- kloud213, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0until there is more HD programming i dont see the point of wasring all that money. video games in HD is cool but not enough to drop 400 on the system then turn around and get a tv for 1000-3000. its not worth it, now when the blu-ray,hd-dvd war is over thats when ill start dropping hella money on good equipment
- einsteindesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^^ hey cletus, there's this nifty thing called a DVD, and this other nifty thing called Netflix. 50,000 titles to choose from, and a good chunk of it is atypical of hollywood garbage.
If reality TV sucks, change your reality. Personally I think Mark Burnett deserves a sharp stick in the eye but that wouldn't prevent him from making shows. - IceKnight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0think about it this way too. if you buy a $10,000 50 inch plasma that lasts say 5 years with the way tech goes these days. thats roughly $2,000 a year to have a big tv, not including taxes or extended warranties
- bitsnbytes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0quote "i paid 140 for my 27 inch flatscreen normal tv, im not buying ***** until i can get a 52 inch plasma for twice that."
Ok I have done the math. At 25% a year in 9 years you can by one for $264.00 - Zerocool.956, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0OMFGWTF?!?!?
YOUR TV WAS 100$???
you think thats expensive? maybe if your tv was 12 inches.
so i assume your tv sucks ass.
i bought my 64in HD LCD sony televison for 7000
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