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In Reply to: Plasma Screen TV posted by ronroseb on October 22, 2002 at 11:30:54:
Ron,I own a Panasonic 42" plasma. It's the SD (standard definition) version, but there is also a new HD (high definition version) available.
Harmonia certainly got it right; once you start enlarging NTSC images beyond it's capabilities, things get dicey (I believe when the NTSC format was originally created long ago, they were counting on 19" TVs being the largest imaginable display).
Most of the NTSC images I've seen on any large screen display have been pretty crappy. The standard broadcast material I view on my 42" Panasonic ranges from cruddy to fabulous.
That said, I switched from an excellent 27" CRT, which displayed one of the sharpest NTSC pictures I've seen, and yetI absolutely prefer watching NTSC on my plasma. This is because plasmas bring some special qualities to the experience - a natural way with light and color, and a wonderfully dimensional image - that I find absent in CRTs. Even a slightly noisey, soft NTSC signal still looks more realistic than on a CRT, like I'm peering through a window into the scene. This may be getting esoteric, but I agree with many other plasma owners that the good plasmas present images that look more natural than CRTs, more relaxing and believable to the eye. After living with a plasma I find CRTs have an annoying "electric" glow to the image. As well, the picture of a fixed pixel device like a plasma is still, calm as opposed to the less precise beam from the Cathode ray. When I switch to CRTs, often I'm concious of the image constantly jiggling (just watch text), as well as the image flickering gets on my nerves. Not only that, I'm glad to be rid of that damned raster scan high-pitched tone emmited by CRT TVs (some people, like me, are sensitive to that squeal - I can walk into any room and know if there is a TV on with the sound turned off).
At this point, even for NTSC, there ain't no goin' back to CRT for me.
For what it's worth...
Rich H
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