Their cheaper and available in more sizes, and don’t heat up your room like a blast furnace... Why exactly were plasma’s reported to be so much better?
Silly headline - from the article itself, LCD flat screen is doing fine and, in fact, it is what is displacing plasma.
“Betamax videotape format and laser disc DVD”
They forgot eight track cassettes.
Betamax and Laserdisc lost out for one reason. There was no porn on them.
This has been obvious for at least 2 years and probably longer. Plasma looks great if you can handle the bright reflective screen but LCD has seemed like the better choice for quite some time.
Plasma had an advantage in contrast levels, LCD had trouble with fast motion, and there were few LCDs larger than 42”.
In the last couple years LCDs have caught-up to plasma in all those categories.
The reputation (right or wrong) for “screen burn” always scared me away from plasma.
How do LCDs compare to the newer LEDs from Samsung?
[I have a VIZIO LCD which has a nice picture, when the cable stream is good. Sometimes the cable feed is pathetic, however.]
Plasma has a better picture. That said, you have to replace parts after awhile, and that’s expensive.
I prefer the LCD.....picture almost as good, even for a techie like me. Close enough.
That said, I saw an LED TV in the store the other day. It beats them all. INCREDIBLE picture...Hard to describe since I remember growing up in the 80s still with one of those old types of color TV from the 60’s. How far we have come. The TV looks so good you don’t want to do anything but stare....lol.
The difference, of course, is that Betamax and Laserdisk were competing in format wars. They failed to achieve the market share necessary to get studios to release programming on their format and to get retailers to allocate shelf space.
Plasma is simply losing market share. But the utility of the last plasma screen sold will be the same as the utility of the one sold two years ago. Each individual unit does not require that plasma achieve market share in order to function. Nobody will be left with non-functional equipment.
So, except for the fact that the situations are completely and utterly different, they’re just the same...
Wasn’t Calipornia writing a law to ban Plasmas? The government there will claim victory over the evil Plasma product.
Wasn’t Calipornia writing a law to ban Plasmas? The government there will claim victory over the evil Plasma product.
In my opinion, liberty would be best served if everyone would haul all of them to the dump.
Now can I sell ya my HD-DVD player?
Mine had better motion, plus could be viewed from any angle. Plasma works better in dim light, but who watches in a bright room anyway?
I'm glad to hear that LCD screens are finally catching up and have overcome their flaws. (Actually, we just got a 42” LCD for the bedroom, it's pretty good, but blacks are still not as good)
The fallacy in comparing plasmas to the Betamax is that there will always be content for the plasmas, while eventually new movies quit coming out in Beta.
In another 10-12 years my plasma will be at about half brightness and I'll be happy to hang a new 215” OLED on the wall at a price of around $300 (or $30,000 with Obamaflation)
TC