Hitachi/Fujitsu Plasma Display makes arguably the best (and most expensive)Plasma panels on the planet. Their ALiS (Alternate lighting of Surfaces) design which incorporates the 1024x1024 structure in my opinion has one of the smoothest most cinema like pictures available on a consumer device today. A Panasonic for example, with traditional 1024X768P has a great picture, but there is still more evident pixel spacing.
The best way I can describe it is the difference between the Trinitron and the regular Invar Shadow Mask back in the day. No one who saw a Trinitron in my experience ever wanted to go back to a regular shadow mask television. Ironically, when Sony was producing their Plasmas until 2005, all of their panels were Hitachi/Fujitsu sourced up to the 42 inch size.
So its not just some trivial difference, the ALiS design, while not quite up there in black level with some of its competitors, is overall the smoothest picture because of the incredibly tight pixel spacing.
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Hitachi/Fujitsu Plasma Display makes arguably the best (and most expensive)Plasma panels on the planet. Their ALiS (Alternate lighting of Surfaces) design which incorporates the 1024x1024 structure in my opinion has one of the smoothest most cinema like pictures available on a consumer device today. A Panasonic for example, with traditional 1024X768P has a great picture, but there is still more evident pixel spacing.
The best way I can describe it is the difference between the Trinitron and the regular Invar Shadow Mask back in the day. No one who saw a Trinitron in my experience ever wanted to go back to a regular shadow mask television. Ironically, when Sony was producing their Plasmas until 2005, all of their panels were Hitachi/Fujitsu sourced up to the 42 inch size.
So its not just some trivial difference, the ALiS design, while not quite up there in black level with some of its competitors, is overall the smoothest picture because of the incredibly tight pixel spacing.
Ian.