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MikeQ:

--- Quote from: RayB on May 28, 2007, 11:13:21 pm ---whatever. Five years from now everyone who bought a plasma will be dumping their DIM television sets (that's what happens to plasma tvs).  SED will be the viable replacement.


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I've had a plasma for more than 5 years and  it looks great.  The bad press about plasma is mostly false.

shorthair:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 28, 2007, 08:20:32 pm ---Sony would love to come up with something innovative.  They've been bleeding money for years.  More flat screen tech?  Bah.  Wake me up when someone has hologram TVs.



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There ya go. Particularly as they've been imagined and speculated about since at least the 40s and 50s in SF, and in a less technical/more metaphorical fashion before that in carnival culture.


RayB: yeah, they will, but not for SEDs. The regular market model is starting to fold. This was predicted in NEUROMANCER ('84).

boykster:

--- Quote from: RayB on May 28, 2007, 11:13:21 pm ---whatever. Five years from now everyone who bought a plasma will be dumping their DIM television sets (that's what happens to plasma tvs). 

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That's funny, I have a 5 year old plasma, that has been used responsibly (ie not left on for hours on end when nobody's watching it) and has about 6000 hours of viewing on it.  Still works wonderfully, no need to "dump" it as you say....

This generation plasma (from 2002) had a 1/2 life lifespan of 15000 hours....that's 7 years at 6 hours a day viewing.  I'm not quite 1/2 way there.  Newer plasmas have a 1/2 life lifespan of nearing 60000 hours...thats 27 years of 6 hours a day viewing.  27 YEARS!  And of course, that's until you reach 1/2 brightness, no reason you can't keep watching that set, simply turning the brightness and contrast up to compensate.

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I love it how people read/hear something, take it WAY too literally and then spread mis-information.

Don't get me wrong, SED and other thin/low-power/flexible/etc technologies are cool, and I'm interested in the next wave of technologies.....but dissing current tech is pretty silly.

MikeQ:
I've actually not been too kind to mine and never suffered any problems.  I've left static images on it for the good part of a day and never seen burn in.  Mine for a while acted as a digital picture frame so it was on constantly scrolling through thousands of photos for days at a time.  I ran a calibration DVD on it when I got it 5+ years ago and recently did so again.  Nothing was out of wack at all.  AVS forum has a lot of information and case history on the durability of Plasma.  I read numerous articles before buying mine and most of the bad press came from commercial Plasma sets.  Plasma TV has been around since 1964 and because of the cost, its primary application was in the commercial sector.  These are environments where sets are almost never turned off and display the same images for their lifetime.  Early sets had burn-in issues and loss of brightness.  These problems were engineered out before Plasma went mass market.

boykster:
Yep, good stuff.  AVS was a major resource for all 3 of my plasma purchases, as well as many other things.  I'm boykster over there too  ;D

I agree that most of the anti-plasma hype is true, albeit with some pretty major asterisks.  Sure, you can get burnin on a plasma, but you have to try pretty hard to do it.  Sure, plasmas will dim over time, but when you actually look at the numbers, it's a LOOONG time before you might see a problem.

Your plasma will break for other reasons well before you notice a substantial decreas in picture quality...

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