Plasma TV's End May Be Near

[NickD 203]

LCDs are not low-tech actually.

Been around for the last 40 years with improvements in making the opacity proportional with voltage but mostly a printing process, actually the opacity depends upon the concentration of the number of pixels between turned on or off in any given area. Requires a back light and the distance between that backlight and the pixels determines the viewing area that is determined by the thickness of the diffuser, want to make it thicker for better diffusion, but a trade off in the distance for a narrower viewing range. Always tradeoffs, sick of tradeoffs.

Other disadvantages is either if the DC component of the driving waveform becomes too large or the screen becomes too cold, the pixels will be permanently opaque. Response time is also critical and for a large screen, the pixels have to be made as small as possible using extremely thin printed leads on the glass that translates to much lower yield rates. Yield rates are perhaps the greatest factor in determining cost, you are paying for the bad ones. And those extremely thin lead wires in a x,y matrix are subject to failure. Technology is a simple as turning a pixel on or off, brightness is best controlled by using PWM.

Design isn't as bad as it may seem, just perfect a very small segment and use a step and repeat process. Still have a high voltage going to the fluorescent tube that can cause problems, and they don't last forever.

Still an image, maybe one of these days, just an electronic device to send signals directly to our brain, that way you could watch a movie with your eyes closed. Or maybe using LED technology once they can make them small enough.

[Heracles 417]

The reason you guys hate Plasma is because you are racist. You know that Plasma's deliver darker black colors. So you prefer LCD's which cannot deliver as dark colors.

I need to report this thread to Jesse Jackson.

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I need to report this thread to Jesse Jackson.

You killed this thread.

[SMOKE 1,426]

plasma vs. lcd. side by side, plasma has a far better picture.

Edited February 24, 2009 by SMOKE

[pedroh 21]

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plasma vs. lcd. side by side, plasma has a far better picture.

I don't think that's true anymore....LCD's keep getting better. With adjustments on my LCD, I'm able to get as good a picture or better than in a movie theater.

[pedroh 21]

yea LCD's keep improving a lot.. a good 1080p LCD with a blu ray playa' u dont need anything else

[SMOKE 1,426]

plasma vs. lcd. side by side, plasma has a far better picture.

I don't think that's true anymore....LCD's keep getting better. With adjustments on my LCD, I'm able to get as good a picture or better than in a movie theater.

its true. try it, i did last weekend...same brand, same definition...720/1080 both...plasma wins hands down.

yea LCD's keep improving a lot.. a good 1080p LCD with a blu ray playa' u dont need anything else

thats great if you only watch dvds....nobody broadcasts in 1080p..very few are just now broadcasting in 1080i

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Gone the way of Betamax, and Laser printers, I suppose.

laser printers? explain.

I have an old PB9800. I didn't know anyone still used a laser printer, other than me.

[pedroh 21]

plasma vs. lcd. side by side, plasma has a far better picture.

I don't think that's true anymore....LCD's keep getting better. With adjustments on my LCD, I'm able to get as good a picture or better than in a movie theater.

its true. try it, i did last weekend...same brand, same definition...720/1080 both...plasma wins hands down.

yea LCD's keep improving a lot.. a good 1080p LCD with a blu ray playa' u dont need anything else

thats great if you only watch dvds....nobody broadcasts in 1080p..very few are just now broadcasting in 1080i

or if play videogames.. some videogames for either the ps3 and 360 come in 1080p, and u can download movies too in 1080p they look awesome

[SMOKE 1,426]

or if play videogames.. some videogames for either the ps3 and 360 come in 1080p, and u can download movies too in 1080p they look awesome

sorry i forgot the gamers.

[NickD 203]

plasma vs. lcd. side by side, plasma has a far better picture.

I don't think that's true anymore....LCD's keep getting better. With adjustments on my LCD, I'm able to get as good a picture or better than in a movie theater.

Ha, but still have a tiny screen compared to a projector. But we have a 15" LCD in our motorhome, not bad really, wife and I have to cuddle up close to watch it. Sound is pretty bad so I plug the audio out into the vehicles' radio, to get surround sound, but have to listen to it on 6 by 9 inch speakers.

But hey, we are camping, and we are suppose to be roughing it.

[pedroh 21]

[scooter rider 0]

I have my PS3 hooked up to my LG the picture is insane clear.Lg has very good rating i think they have a better picture than Sony or Samsung.

[pedroh 21]

I have my PS3 hooked up to my LG the picture is insane clear.Lg has very good rating i think they have a better picture than Sony or Samsung.

LG has been stepping it up a lot they do have very good monitors..