I think it's easy to see why the mass-market went for LCD and not Plasma. You only have to look at this review.
"The bad: Expensive; less accurate primary and secondary colors in non-THX modes; somewhat limited picture controls; still less efficient than comparable LCDs".
Most don't care that Plasma is (at the very nth degree) 'better'. Most of the time LCD is close enough not to be a big deal. Most just have their TV for watching TV (most of the time) and your average reality/soap type TV garbage just doesn't need an expensive TV.
LCD matches a price and performance which for the majority is (easily) 'good enough'.
When they start shelling out OLED at LCD prices and lower I think it's then that we'll see average quality jump in the mass-market. But I think it's pretty obvious that (aside from the a/v enthusiast who isn't bothered by the higher price or higher running costs) Plasma has failed in the mass market and is going to see out the rest of its days as a high margin niche product.
Whilst I personally could buy one if I wanted to I just would never do so, in the same way that my buying a gas-guzzling car is just never going to happen. Further, I look forward to us gradually banning such energy inefficient devices (and devices which are disproportionately energy intensive to produce), something some US states are beginning and the EU is starting to do also.
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I think it's easy to see why the mass-market went for LCD and not Plasma.
You only have to look at this review.
"The bad:
Expensive; less accurate primary and secondary colors in non-THX modes; somewhat limited picture controls; still less efficient than comparable LCDs".
Most don't care that Plasma is (at the very nth degree) 'better'.
Most of the time LCD is close enough not to be a big deal.
Most just have their TV for watching TV (most of the time) and your average reality/soap type TV garbage just doesn't need an expensive TV.
LCD matches a price and performance which for the majority is (easily) 'good enough'.
When they start shelling out OLED at LCD prices and lower I think it's then that we'll see average quality jump in the mass-market.
But I think it's pretty obvious that (aside from the a/v enthusiast who isn't bothered by the higher price or higher running costs) Plasma has failed in the mass market and is going to see out the rest of its days as a high margin niche product.
Whilst I personally could buy one if I wanted to I just would never do so, in the same way that my buying a gas-guzzling car is just never going to happen.
Further, I look forward to us gradually banning such energy inefficient devices
(and devices which are disproportionately energy intensive to produce), something some US states are beginning and the EU is starting to do also.