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In Reply to: RE: Go to a store . . . posted by Brian A on October 05, 2009 at 19:34:00
Anyway, they run the plasmas in a torch mode in stores. They have to to compete with LCD's brightness in the lit showrooms (besides that most consumers, from what I've seen, seem to regularly run in a torch mode anyway). Regular plasma power consumption can be 1/4 of that (as measured here with a 60" Pio, actually less than 1/5), it varies depending on what's being displayed.Would you not buy audio gear that consumes more power if it sounded a lot better, for the same price or less? Maybe not. :) It is true that the plasmas do put out heat though. Undesirable for a computer monitor in front of your face, the only place LCDs look good IMO, but not a problem when you're many feet away. Crank up the A/C I say! Being in Canada, there's really only 2-3 months of the year when I can even feel that the plasma is warmer than ambient LOL.
Edits: 10/05/09Follow Ups:
Everyone knows you don't buy a display because you're interested in picture quality: you buy a display to be cool. And when you do, you buy an LCD so that your friends, all of whom worship their buds at Best Buy, won't deride you for purchasing a plasma. After all, Best Buy wouldn't lie now, would they? It just has to be a coincidence that every display technology that Best Buy has pushed over plasma (LCD, LCoS, DLP, etc) has had a higher profit margin than the plasmas they carried. It just has to be.
Fan Boy Joe is unwilling to credit others with what he claims are his own motives, he thinks if someone comes to a different conclusion than he does they must have bad motives. A zealot. Perhaps old Joe likes plasmas not because he likes the picture but because they make him feel special and out of the ordinary; maybe Joe has twisted motives? See, I can be full of shit too.
I bought my LCD TVs because I liked the picture. I've been into this video hobby since before Perfect Vision #1 and I still have my Video Essentials laser disc. I know the story.
Sarcasm is definitely not your specialty.
Twisted motives? No, not even a twisted sister.
"See, I can be full of shit too."
Not "too", but indeed correct that you are full of shit.
You still have your laserdisc of Video Essentials? I still have mine as well -- it's right next to my laserdisc copy of A Video Standard from 1989. Come to think of it, maybe I should have saved all of the emails that Joe Kane and I have traded over the years since you want to measure who has has the biggest video dick.
"I know the story."
It's rather ironic that for someone who is so full of the stuff, you actually don't know shit.
Furthermore, you have contributed zero to this thread. Not once have you responded to the original poster with any relevant information for him to consider. Quite honestly, all of your comments have been directed at me in what looks like some sort of stalker mode. If anyone has an agenda here, it's painfully obvious that it's you.
You're officially ignored.
Best check your own Murph when you react this hysterically to someone's disagreeing with you over TVs.
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I was thinking more along the line that many (most??) people really do prefer a very bright (over-)saturated picture. If they saw a display calibrated to standard levels they'd probably think it was broken, it does take some time to get used to because it's so different from what they're used to seeing. Not a good thing to introduce to people in a showroom, not if you want to make sales. This would be the sales equivalent of turning the audio gear to a low/reasonable volume to demo it...not a BB technique from what I've noticed.
Also that in a room with uncontrolled lighting, LCDs really are the better flat panel choice. Plasmas really should have a fairly dark room, preferably with only rear bias lighting. Just not doable or practical for many people. Nor in many big-box stores, so plasmas don't come off well there.
If I had kids I'd also probably go LCD. They have their place.
The oldest got a 32" plasma for his 9th birthday. On the same day, his 5 year old brother inherited a 32" LCD. It doesn't get much use.
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