Advantages over LCD:
No motion Lag. Even 4ms will show blur during fast motion.
Black level performance. LCD’s can’t do black, when they try it loses detail in dark scenes. Things will be silhouetted when in reality they are not. No detail in things like dark hair or clothes.
Color performance. Colors are more realistic on a plasma.
Price. On anything 50 inches or over plasma is much cheaper.
Disadvantages to LCD:
Care and feeding. Burn in is not really a problem anymore but it can happen if you leave a static image up for an extended period. Don’t use a plasma as a computer monitor.
Power Usage. It takes a good amount of power to individually light each pixel.
I've heard that's true... but at this age my eyes have trouble picking out some of those details -- my four-year old LCD RP still looks good to me. If Graybeard58 is around my age, that may not be a big issue. :-)
I’ve heard nothing beats tubes? Anyone just build a damn good old fashioned TV? What you think about that? This new fangled stuff sounds like a ton of money, and in a few years you wish you’d done something else?