http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/ Engadget Comments for Plasma market getting smaller and higher-end, but it's still alive http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/
It's all moot though, nothing beats CRT! I want someone to make a 50" 1080p CRT that is so heavy it falls through the floor. You'll never beat it's picture.]]>May 13th 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/
You fool! You jinxed it!]]>May 13th 2009 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/
The picture on such a CRT would be great, but you run into serious issues when designing such tubes. There is what amounts to a practical size limitation on tubes due to the upper corners and keeping the entire picture straight. The phosphors are excited by electrons accelerated through a vacuum, which works pretty well for small sets.

Trouble is, electrons have mass. And it turns out the earth does too. Drop due to gravity is the biggest problem with large tube-style sets. There has been some development in this regard - 32" used to be the max, now you see sets around 37" - but the costs become prohibitive (and not linearly so) when you go up from there. ]]>May 13th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/
Plasma's whites, while dimmer, seem more like what you'd see in a theater, and you don't have to worry about buzz tech when buying, like "response time", "LED TV", or "120 / 240 / eleventy billion Hz". You can't beat the native contrast levels, either.

For me, now when I'm deciding which tech to buy, the deciding factor is panel size. I think that if you're looking to buy a 1080p HDTV larger than 42", then you'd be nuts not to buy a plasma. When I need something smaller than that, I go with a good LCD set.]]>May 16th 2009 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/negatory]]>May 13th 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/
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You can replace a plasma panel too, I guess. Which one do you think is cheaper?]]>May 13th 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 14th 2009 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/
It's not that they can't be used at high altitudes. You probably have too many Best Buy guys talking too much. Plasmas MAY be louder at high altitudes (and possibly have a shorter lifetime of the panel, which probably doesn't matter).

Living in Colorado has nothing to do with it. I live part time in California and could live at a higher altitude or a lower altitude than anyone in CO. I have a plasma set in California at 100ft elevation and it is fairly noisy. I have a plasma set in Reno at 5800ft (I live on a hill) and it makes no more noise (almost none) than the various LCD sets I also have there. Personally if you are listening to any show with constant sound, the noise isn't very audible considering sitting over 10ft from the screen.

Also, if you've ever been on the Concorde, you'd see a plasma set (it was a normal industrial model, Philips I think) operating at very high altitudes. The pressurization on board is usually equal to around 6500-7500ft.

Obviously, altitude equivalents and variations are also subject to atmospheric pressure variations.]]>May 13th 2009 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/
I had no idea that fanboism extended past the label to the underlying technology.]]>May 13th 2009 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/
You can't just make blanket statements like that. There's a wide range of quality in both plasmas and LCDs. The new LED LCDs are quite stunning and certainly look better than your average LCD or plasma. And I hate to burst your bubble here, but the current image king is the Mitsubishi LaserVue... a laser based DLP. ]]>May 13th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/
What he probably didn't do was compare them using his own personal color meter and contrast measuring equipment that you "true" videophiles do every time you watch some garbage on TV.]]>May 13th 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/May 13th 2009 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/
(Make sure to get light gray screening. This corrects the annoyingly deep black levels of plasma.)]]>May 13th 2009 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/13/plasma-market-getting-smaller-and-higher-end-but-its-still-her/
I suppose your knowledge of LCDs is based on old monitors like this one:
http://www.gokeytech.com/images/MagicTouch2-LCD-Monitor-wHa.jpg
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