Pioneer @ CEDIA - History of Pioneer plasmas

We can say that without a doubt, this is one of the coolest displays at the '06 CEDIA EXPO. Pioneer dug up one of their first displays and hung it next to a newer one processing a signal like it was '01 on one side and '03 on the other. Then lastly, there is a display from this generation to show how far Pioneer plasmas have evolved. The color is better along with the definition, contrast, brightness, and lastly, power consumption. The digital numbers in the middle of the display is showing the power usage of the above displays. Believe it or not, a good amount of people stray away from the PDP market because of high power consumption and this shows that things aren't the way they used to be. If you are at the EXPO, swing by the Pioneer booth and wander to the back of it where this demo is located.

Continue on for another shot of the booth.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 15th 2006 10:17AM]

I saw this Pioneer timeline at CES last year. It is great to see how far plasmas have come. It would be cool if they posted the retail prices above each plasma to see the price decline as well.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 15th 2006 12:30PM]

Looking at the picture it appears they haven't changed at all, except the newer ones are black and the old ones are grey.

Also I don't believe the colour chanes, I have a number of Plasma's around teh house and actually the older ones tend to look better than the new ones (of the same resolution).

Besides, I'm surprised they even found a Plasma from the 90's that still works - I have around four of them sitting in my workshop awaiting PSU fixes that cost almost twice as much as a new plasma TV costs.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 15th 2006 2:59PM]

When the technology begins to reach a mature condition the year-to-year changes are often found to be less and less significant. What this means for a product manufacturer is that there will be less and less reason for someone last year, or the year before that, to upgrade.

This is good in a way in that a mature technology will become mass-consumer and inexpensive and then allow a newer technology to enter the market (SED, OLED, etc.) are the boutique technology for the next decade.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 19th 2006 12:13PM]

#2, You have GOT to be kidding. Seriously, are you nuts? NO older display looks better than newer ones, even if they are from the same generation (i.e.: used vs. new out of the box). If you put up your ancient reference display next to one of the new ones (from ANY brand), you'd be crying into your soup. I can't believe you actually had the brass ones to post such a blatantly false comment.

#3, if you had seen the Pioneer demo, you'd see that significant improvements are being made with every generation: black levels improve, detail improves, color accuracy improves. This is true of ever brand. None of these are " less significant".

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2006 3:30PM]

Why would SED blow away current stuff