Plasma TV boosts Gateway picture - (42 " HDTV flat-panel display for $3,000)

The San Diego Union Tribune ^ | December 28, 2002 | Bruce V. Bigelow

[Dark Knight]

Personally, I think it will be the end of the CRT. They are not going to even stop at less the HDTV (full 1080i). So it will be able to be a monitor, TV, PDA etc.

As far as do you have it now, I think Pioneer put it on some of their higher end car stereos. But that is kind of an exotic toy function. They will start with the PDA market, and then computer monitor. The wall TV's will be last, but how fast does the consumer market work when it has a market?

I think that the scene from "Total Recall" may be closer than we realize. You remember, where they were having breakfast, and the wall is the TV. She kept putting back into the Window mode where it was like looking out your picture window.

DK

[savedbygrace]

For some families, that would be about 3 to 3 1/2 years.

[A Navy Vet]

LCD projected on a wall, with a $200 surround system...you call that "great" 5.1 home theater? If you're not going to go CRT, at least use a DLP projector. I won't even get into your clock-radio surround.

[savedbygrace]

Yeah, I had a 22" Apple Cinema Display (LCD panel) that developed a bad column of pixels. Fortunately, I had AppleCare, and it cost absolutely nothing to get the panel replaced.

[savedbygrace]

PS. Glad I saved you. LOL

LOL. Thanks.

[bonesmccoy]

Please check the "reply" button prior to posting. I corrected my message and noted that it was 14 FEET

[bonesmccoy]

OK swabbie...how much did you actually pay for your Bang & Olufson?

[bonesmccoy]

actually instead of calling "it" a "mess", I would call "it" a "free market" with "competition".

May the consumer decide.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See this:

$3000 Plasma TV? SO What. Read this..

[goldstategop]

I'm all for the free market. Heavens rejoice!!!

[bonesmccoy]

The selection you make depends on your use. If the display is in a smaller room and would only have a few people viewing it from a couch/sofa, then the LCD is great. The plasmas were priced way to high prior to the GTW system entering the market.

[bonesmccoy]

Thanks for the info. It sounds like the plasma TV competition and sales are moving up. If the Koreans are popping out the plasma screens faster, the Chinese will need to match. GTW must be getting their screens from S. Korea or China. The Japanese aren't really manufacturing very cheap these days.

It sounds like the cost of a large plasma screen wall mount unit will fall by 50% soon. The cost already declined by 70% compared to two years ago.

[FreedomPoster]

>>"The second-biggest problem for high-definition TV in America, after confusion over cable and broadcast standards, has been the horrible experiences at consumer electronics retail stores,"

When I got a replacement TV for the den a month ago, my primary criteria for selecting a "sales associate" was "can he operate a forklift and get a 32" TV onto my pallet?"

If you want techie details on this kind of stuff, go to the Audio-Visual Science Forum. It's the best.

http://www.avsforum.com

[bonesmccoy]

My take on the innovation in display technology is that the grapple on NTSC TV and movie resolution by liberal media outfits is over.

Digital technology is democratizing. Just look at what Jim Rob did with simple text. Imagine what the next generation of freeping will be?

Kids with digital video cameras can show up to the Feinstein Campaign to shoot stock footage and make their own commentaries to match guys like ABC News.

[July 4th]

For watching DVD's while traveling, I rip them to my laptop hard drive. The battery lasts much longer that way.

With regards to the plasma displays, I think they're extremely cool, but far out of my budget right now. The one thing I can't get past, however, is picture editing. I have yet to see a non-CRT display that can display pictures at a quality useful enough for professionally editing them. For accuracy, CRTs are still the winners.

[bonesmccoy]

MSFT = Microsoft
GTW = Gateway

These are stock exchange symbols used by all financial analysts.

[FreedomPoster]

>>at least use a DLP projector

Many have problems with rainbows on DLP's. I like my LCD projector, and most who see it love it, too. We had a Xmas party, and 6-7 people were glued to LOTR / FOTR extended edition after I put it in for a "short" demo. They couldn't believe how good it was, and how relatively inexpensive the setup. Note: I don't view many black and white art films where contrast is an issue.

[fightinJAG]

Blogs will become citizen-newscasts. FReeperland will have its own web-station where freepers can send in reports for broadcast.

[dennisw]

Freepers who are into home production (like that David Dennis dude) should get into MediaCenter PC's from Gateway, HP, or Alienware.
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RIGHT. I saw a very cool one from Alienware. A super enhanced tivo and much more for $1599.

[July 4th]

I thought that this had been resolved and decided.

That it has. For $150, I bought a Hauppauge HDTV tuner card for my desktop. It displays at 480i resolution, and looks -extremely- cool. Plus, in the Madison and Milwaukee areas all of the broadcasters are running digital. It's awesome.