excellent price for a local purchase

About the best I've seen online for the 58" B550 (next model up?) is $1700 + $100 shipping.

"...but my room is not light-controlled enough for plasma, not to mention the $$$ I don't want to spend on 60+" plasma."

It sounds like it was just too good a deal to pass up for almost 60 inches of glass, considering you mentioned that your room was light-challenged. What most people fail to realize is that the average person works during the day, so the majority of viewing will not be under poor conditions (lots of light). Now, on the weekends that changes for some people with lots of windows or life with others who think every light switch in the entire house must be in the ON position.

"Same HD signal was feeding all of them, and by God, the Samsung plasma had so much more depth of colors, almost scintillating realism, and I just "felt" better looking at it. In particular, the moon-lit small ocean waves just looked alive, and I felt like I was actually there!"

Like its forefather, Direct View CRT, the "realistic/like being there/like looking through a window" presentation is due to the emmisive nature of plasma. Using phosphors, these two technologies actually make their own light, rather than trying to change the properties of a light source (which creates the artificial look) or by forcing light through a barrier to light transmission in order to get the picture to you. With plasma and Direct View CRT, the picture starts at the glass -- it doesn't have to pass through a filter (LCD, LED LCD) or screen (LCoS, DLP) to get to your eyes.

I wanted to get a new plasma last year, but then I learned that some new technology was going to be implemented with this year's models. Unfortunately not all of it was implemented, so next year may be the year. It will definitely be at least a 65" plasma: I just don't know if it will be the consumer or broadcast version.

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Topic - Sony Wega 60" biting the dust. What's next, 60" or larger - Jon L 11:04:12 10/09/09 (36)

See if this is a common problem, and also check power supply capacitors... - bassbinotoko 22:25:48 10/17/09 (0)

You are a brave man to give up 2" - cfraser 15:29:54 10/10/09 (1)

Yup - Jon L 18:15:15 10/10/09 (0)

you didn't mention your budget - Joe Murphy Jr 08:15:27 10/10/09 (29)

Went to Costco to buy the New Vizio locally dimming LED LCD, BUT walked away with Plasma - Jon L 09:09:27 10/10/09 (28)

RE: Went to Costco to buy the New Vizio locally dimming LED LCD, BUT walked away with Plasma - Gmood1 22:45:35 10/10/09 (26)

Plasma Burn-In - Jon L 15:36:03 10/11/09 (25)

RE: Plasma Burn-In - Gmood1 16:56:46 10/11/09 (4)

We choose plasma for PQ - cfraser 15:27:45 10/12/09 (3)

RE: We choose plasma for PQ - Gmood1 17:31:33 10/12/09 (2)

RE: We choose plasma for PQ - cfraser 18:22:36 10/12/09 (1)

RE: We choose plasma for PQ - Gmood1 18:39:42 10/12/09 (0)

Partly because they've redefined "burn-in" - cfraser 16:25:58 10/11/09 (19)

LCDs also suffer from image retention (nt) - racerguy 06:45:29 10/13/09 (15)

RE: LCDs also suffer from image retention (nt) - Gmood1 09:47:48 10/13/09 (14)

I've seen it quite a bit - racerguy 19:04:00 10/13/09 (10)

RE: I've seen it quite a bit - Gmood1 20:40:09 10/13/09 (9)

RE: I've seen it quite a bit - racerguy 21:10:04 10/13/09 (8)

RE: I've seen it quite a bit - Gmood1 21:21:56 10/13/09 (7)

You are definitely confused - racerguy 04:56:41 10/14/09 (6)

RE: You are definitely confused - Gmood1 08:03:31 10/14/09 (5)

I'm through with you - racerguy 14:52:24 10/14/09 (1)

RE: I'm through with you - Gmood1 18:30:36 10/14/09 (0)

you might want to consider this - Joe Murphy Jr 09:29:39 10/14/09 (2)

RE: you might want to consider this - Gmood1 10:42:57 10/14/09 (1)

you didn't offend me - Joe Murphy Jr 13:42:19 10/15/09 (0)

brown-in is their burn-in - Joe Murphy Jr 13:32:11 10/13/09 (2)

RE: brown-in is their burn-in - Gmood1 14:30:57 10/13/09 (1)

not burning in - Joe Murphy Jr 18:20:38 10/13/09 (0)

that's not how it works - Joe Murphy Jr 14:04:15 10/12/09 (2)

I meant that if you read the owners manuals - cfraser 15:02:11 10/12/09 (1)

understood - Joe Murphy Jr 21:16:29 10/12/09 (0)

excellent price for a local purchase - Joe Murphy Jr 13:46:32 10/10/09 (0)

RE: Sony Wega 60" biting the dust. What's next, 60" or larger - grantv 12:07:16 10/09/09 (2)

You're missing out - Brian A 01:21:29 10/10/09 (1)

RE: You're missing out - grantv 08:33:54 10/10/09 (0)

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excellent price for a local purchase - Joe Murphy Jr 13:46:32 10/10/09 (0)

excellent price for a local purchase

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