In my experience, not all the knocks against plasma are baseless. I have seen burn-in first hand, and also know of an inexpensive set that started to emit a very loud squeal not long after they went out of warranty. I think the problems with PDPs at high altitude were also very real, though I believe they’ve mostly been corrected now.
I just bought a new Toshiba 42” 1080p for $1500, Vista MC looks great at 1920x1080 1:1 native on it. I don’t think I could achive the same with a PDP at any cost.
in our store we had one of the 65-inch Marantz(if I remember correctly) which were the new 103-inchers of four years ago. The boss left the pearl harbor DVD on menu all night... when we came back next morning, you could unplug the plasma from the electric source, and the image of the menu would still be seen, mostly, without power!!
it was amazing and it also was really hard for us to loose a $25,000 plasma, but it was back to normal in no time, sooooo, I think those issues must be resolved by now, if it wasn't such a problem 4 years ago.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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In my experience, not all the knocks against plasma are baseless. I have seen burn-in first hand, and also know of an inexpensive set that started to emit a very loud squeal not long after they went out of warranty. I think the problems with PDPs at high altitude were also very real, though I believe they’ve mostly been corrected now.
I just bought a new Toshiba 42” 1080p for $1500, Vista MC looks great at 1920x1080 1:1 native on it. I don’t think I could achive the same with a PDP at any cost.
in our store we had one of the 65-inch Marantz(if I remember correctly) which were the new 103-inchers of four years ago. The boss left the pearl harbor DVD on menu all night... when we came back next morning, you could unplug the plasma from the electric source, and the image of the menu would still be seen, mostly, without power!!
it was amazing and it also was really hard for us to loose a $25,000 plasma, but it was back to normal in no time, sooooo, I think those issues must be resolved by now, if it wasn't such a problem 4 years ago.