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Additionally, if you want to talk about gimmicks or fakery, plasma has the ultimate. Plasma is incapable of outputting ANY gradations of luminance. So in order to simulate different luminance levels, it has to flicker the display pixels.

They both have their advantages, and one of LCD's is power usage. I think it would be fantastic if plasma's power usage could be lowered to be in line with LCD. But I don't mean just fakery like plasma's stated contrast levels (which are actually not even possible on anything resembling a real image). With enough fakery, anyone can come up with a misleading stat (witness LCD's BS "4ms" numbers). So I'd love to see plasma really meet the power challenge, not just come up with rigged tests.]]>Feb 9th 2008 12:52AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/panasonic-aiming-to-make-plasmas-as-energy-efficient-as-lcds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/panasonic-aiming-to-make-plasmas-as-energy-efficient-as-lcds/Feb 9th 2008 4:49AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/panasonic-aiming-to-make-plasmas-as-energy-efficient-as-lcds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/panasonic-aiming-to-make-plasmas-as-energy-efficient-as-lcds/Feb 9th 2008 2:25AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/panasonic-aiming-to-make-plasmas-as-energy-efficient-as-lcds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/panasonic-aiming-to-make-plasmas-as-energy-efficient-as-lcds/
Yet so many say they are only too happy to use the power-hungry PS3 as their video player instead of a standalone device
(which consumes so much less power - IIRC it's 25w v 125w).

Green hypocrisy, as per.]]>Feb 9th 2008 4:16PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/panasonic-aiming-to-make-plasmas-as-energy-efficient-as-lcds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/panasonic-aiming-to-make-plasmas-as-energy-efficient-as-lcds/Feb 10th 2008 9:59PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/panasonic-aiming-to-make-plasmas-as-energy-efficient-as-lcds/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/02/08/panasonic-aiming-to-make-plasmas-as-energy-efficient-as-lcds/

ANSI Contrast Ratios:

Sony XBR4/5 LCD: 1700:1
Pioneer Kuro Plasma: 3500:1

Nuff said.]]>Feb 10th 2008 5:34AM