[darkpuppet]

chinaman,Jan 12 2006, 03:04 PM Wrote:You sound cheap.  Who would buy  ED now instead of HD? 

For a 42" plasma you are looking at $5000 minimum.  Anything cheaper and you get what you paid for.
You say that you already have pixels gone on your better LCD?  Yeah, we don't mind looking at that black hole in our face all day every day, and still tell everyone plasma sucks and LCD is the best!
Stop shopping at Walmart,Bestbuy-Futureshop,TheBrick, etc. for all your electronic needs.  Nobody will find any highend equipment at any big box crap store.
To each his own, but don't try telling everyone that plasma sucks.  ElCheapo!
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plasmas suffer from burnt pixels, burn-in, and will reach half their original brightness in about 30,000 hours without any option to bring the brightness back up.

Even expensive plasmas suffer from these disadvantages... sure they've made a lot of headway to improve them, but buyers should know ahead of time what they're getting into. You're basically spending 5G on a TV I'll have to replace in 7-10 years.

it's true people should go to a proper audio/video store for their hi-end TV purchases, but 90% of the population don't know any better, or even less, care... the TV works fine for them, what do they care?

Plasma's sell simply for the wow factor, and now that they're coming down in price, you're going to see more and more common people buying them.

I'm sure companies will continue to improve plasma technology, but with SED's on the way, not sure what the point is.