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In Reply to: RE: You are definitely confused posted by Gmood1 on October 14, 2009 at 08:03:31:
FYI: racerguy and I don't agree on too many subjects. However, on plasma vs LCD, I think we both read from the same page. That said, he'd probably prefer you not group the two of us together. Just so you know why he was "offended" at your remarks.
Cost: plasma manufacturing costs are still below LCD costs. So why have many manufacturers exited the plasma business? More profit in LCD due to the markups (not only do you have to make them, you have to sell them to third parties who want to make money). It really is a $ issue.
Misinformation and disinformation: years of incorrect spoutings by untrained, ignorant and downright stupid retail employees has had a delirious affect on plasma acceptance. Same goes for the online comunity. There's probably a 1:20 ratio (if not worse) of informed: uninformed pro-LCD users when it comes to the plasma vs LCD debate. You can blame the disinformation on the misinformed parties and the retailers. Too many unscrupulous retailers out there along with the ones that just want to make a buck to the ones who are forced, by upper management, to make a buck. How do they do it? Make the LCD sale -- by any means or tactics necessary. I've seen it and I've heard it. You don't know how many times I've wanted to yell "You lie!" and reach over the aisle and smack the shit out of a Best Buy employee for outright lying to a customer seeking information about plasmas.
Myths: so much bullshit in the stores and online, mountains made out of molehills, etc. It amounts to a smear compaign if you really want to get down to it. Think about the following for more than a second. How many decades did we have just Direct View CRT (what plasma technology is based on) and the world was a happy place to be? Then, all of a sudden (the last 6 or so years), that technology and its successor is bad bad bad? Gimme a fucking break!
Now, LCD is clearly the technology to get if there is certain criteria that is important to you or needed under certain circumstances. Anyone not willing to admit that isn't too bright or is a fanboy -- simple as that. However, the climate in this dabate is way off the mark mainly due to the issues stated above.
On the image retention and image persitence issue, I have only seen one LCD have a problem with ghost images remaining on the screen. That doesn't mean there aren't thousands more, but my eyes have only seen one. That's pretty damn good based on my experiences.
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Follow Ups
- 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)
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