[Las Vegas Dave]

Pinging the HDTV list..

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[bert]

What is Black Friday?

[marvlus]

The heat and energy created by the plasmas are awfully high, at least on my Panasonics. Wonder how the LCD’s compare?

[krb]

The displays are also said to use BFI/DFI, or Black Frame Insertion/Dark Frame Insertion. With BFI/DFI, a black or dark frame is inserted between original frames, helping to eliminate the human eye’s propensity for image retention.

Drool! I have been wanting something like this for years! Now movies will really play like movies really do in the theater. In the theater a 24 fps movie is actually played at 48fps, with a shutter in front of the lamp flashing each frame on the screen twice, in order to reduces Persistence of Vision:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_of_vision#Film_systems

[savedbygrace]

How accurate has Swann been in the past?