Economy booster: California looking to ban plasma TVs

hotair.com ^ | March 23, 2009 | Ed Morrissey

[Rebelbase]

“This ONE law will crush Pioneer and Panasonic and give a big windfall to Samsung.”

A chance for Pioneer and Panasonic to sue the state of CA and further the bleeding of public funds?

[reagan_fanatic]

Customer: "I'd like to buy a TV."

Salesman: "We're sorry, but we can no longer can sell plasma, LCD, DLP, LED or projection TVs by order of the State of California. However, we are running a special this week on these lovely etch-a-sketch's..."

[savedbygrace]

California is a large part of the reason we even have plasma and LCD TVs. They (and the EU) effectively banned CRTs because of the lead and other unPC materials in CRTs.

[Joe 6-pack]

Telescreens will be provided for each household...

[KarlInOhio]

A new job for all the Mexicans no longer working in construction: smuggling plasma TVs across the border. Hey, senyor, you want to buy a beeg screen.

[lormand]

California - Finally a state that Louisiana can make fun of

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep, this will be a business opportunity for places like Stateline, Nevada, the casino/shopping complex by Whiskey Pete’s on I-15 just across the Nevada state line, and across the Arizona border in Yuma. Those places will do land office business in these plasma TVs. These are big sellers nowadays.

I wonder how good liberals will feel when the plasma TV police ban their TV because of global warming?

[the anti-liberal]

Thanks for this! and bookmark.

[Hayzo]

is my Interocitor still ok in California?

[Sir Gawain]

And plasma is the better technology. Idiots.

[revtown]

Think of this as an opportunity.. We could start a Plasm CAP and Trade scheme and auction off Plasm credits to supplement the tax revenue.

[olivia3boys]

We picked plasma over LCD because we have a lot of children viewing with us from different spots all over the room, and plasma looks great even from a severe angle.

Plasma is not so good in direct daylight; it is like a mirror. But we don’t watch movies in the daytime so it doesn’t matter.

If we ever decide to upgrade we’ll just get one in Oregon. That way we can avoid sales tax too.

[Sir Gawain]

You can usually choose between anti-glare and anti-reflective coating. I hope plasma doesn’t go out as an option because it wins in picture quality easy, and burn in and fading are non-issues now.

[ridesthemiles]

This ONE law will crush Pioneer and Panasonic and give a big windfall to Samsung.’

How many components have been created and manufactured in Kalifornia- especially in Silicon Valley???

Talk about b iting the hand that feeds you.
Lots of those companies would be glad to move to Nevada- where there is NO INCOME TAX.

[reagan_fanatic]

is my Interocitor still ok in California?

You mean the one with the Bead condenser, Cathermin tube with inindium complex of +4 and Intensifier disk?

[Fiji Hill]

...much easier to carry once the looting begins in earnest.

I've never been to Earnest. Is that near Barstow?

Don't know about that, but I do know that the other day, the rain was coming down in Torrance.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

It's all moot anyway. Mitsubishi is coming out with a laser television set that'll make both plasma and LCD look like 1950s floor model sets.

Ed nails it here. I don't know why LCD is joining this crap, for computer monitors and desktop TVs they can't be beat.

[Moonman62]

It's all moot anyway. Mitsubishi is coming out with a laser television set that'll make both plasma and LCD look like 1950s floor model sets.

They're going to cost $7000 and they've already been delayed for two years. I wouldn't hold my breath.

[hot4plasma]

A little humor is what the doctor ordered today... and you gace it to me!!! I laughed at the imagery of them prying your cheese curled stained hands from your plasma TV!! Thanks for a good laugh, fellow freeper!

[hot4plasma]

Sorry.. etch-a-sketches have been shown in numerous studies to cause one to be actually creative, and thereby, not pliable to the state’s policy of draw-speak.. therefore, they are banned as well!