Re: do whatever works for you

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Posted by Rich H on November 10, 2005 at 17:36:13

In Reply to: do whatever works for you posted by budget minded on November 10, 2005 at 04:00:18:

Budget minded wrote: "i AM trying to help you..."

Unfortunately, promoting your own paranoia about digital displays is hardly the way to "help" someone. (You seem to be years behind the ball - "hideous motion smearing" on plasma? That hasn't been a factor for years now. Ask any gamer who owns a plasma).

Here, you need to freshen up. Read this:

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pio/pe/images/portal/cit_3424/273087528Pioneer DTV White Paper - FINAL.pdf

We are in a period of rapid advancement and competition in terms of digital displays. If it's all a big conspiracy theory in your mind and want to stick with CRT, knock yourself out. CRTs still provide great images. But they don't provide everything digital displays provide. The idea that to buy a plasma is to buy an "inferior product" and that you are here to help people not "waste money" in buying plasma is foolishness.

I was a CRT lover and bought my plasma in 2002 and it was perhaps the most satisfying electronics purchase I've made. (That's saying a lot from a long-time, gear-loving audiophile/videophile). Thank goodness I didn't listen to someone trying to stop my "wasting money" and actually got accurate information about plasmas.
Since 2002 I've been on the AVS plasma forum and I don't recall once anyone feeling they "wasted money" in buying their plasma. The vast majority of people are extremely happy. You act like there is some magic technology out there that doesn't suffer defects, or doesn't involve some rolling of the dice. Go to AVS forum, The Home Theater Spot, The Home Theater Forum and you'll see that EVERY technology has it's problems and defective units. That includes the people buying CRTs. (For instance, there have been several problems with the top rated 34" CRT sets from Sony and other manufacturers).

Plasmas now are rated to last as long or longer than CRTs, have at least as good burn in resistance, and offer a host of technical advantages over CRTs (and although CRTs still do blacks the deepest, some plasmas are very close - e.g. Panasonic brand - and some micro displays like the newest Sony SXRD rear-projection sets are measuring black levels below what reviewers equipment can measure).

You write: "just 1 dead pixel = broke as far as I'M concerned."

First, dead pixels are extremely rare in plasmas, particularly in the best selling Panasonic brand. And if you are that paranoid, many A/V stores offer "no dead pixel" policies - that is you can exchange your display if it has any dead pixels. And as far as a dead pixel = "broke," from the perspective of a plasma owner who enjoys perfect corner-to-corner geometry and focus throughout the screen, I might retort that "any imperfect or bowed geometry = broke as far as I'm concerned." This would mean, of course, most CRT tube sets. (And uneven brightness and convergence/geometry problems are more visible than a single dead pixel on any HD plasma).

Again, if you are too freaked out to buy a digital display, or perfectly happy with a small CRT tube set, no one's going to make you buy a plasma. But many of us have been enjoying our digital displays for years. I watch in the dark and value good black levels. I get them with the Panasonic plasma, and the perfect flatness and focus of the image, along with the significantly larger image, gives me a more cinematic experience than I have ever gotten from any tube set.Come on in, the water's fine...;-)

Cheers,

Rich H.

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Follow Ups Full Thread

Topic - Plasma Life Span?? - Shakey 08:43:05 10/26/05 (23)

Re: Plasma Life Span?? - BobW 09:00:06 11/11/05 (0)

Re: i don't trust plasma - budget minded 11:49:23 11/05/05 (9)

Re: i don't trust plasma - Jack G 10:58:34 11/08/05 (8)

do whatever works for you - budget minded 04:00:18 11/10/05 (7)

Re: do whatever works for you - Rich H 17:36:13 11/10/05 (4)

Re: paranoia is an overstatement - budget minded 03:20:07 11/18/05 (3)

Mebbe it's not paranoia - Kal Rubinson 09:22:30 11/18/05 (2)

Re: no argument there - budget minded 04:07:07 11/20/05 (1)

Enough, please - Kal Rubinson 07:31:09 11/20/05 (0)

Touchy are we? - Jack G 08:40:09 11/10/05 (0)

i DID address this post's topic by the way - budget minded 04:06:48 11/10/05 (0)

Re: Plasma Life Span?? - RichG 08:44:38 11/02/05 (1)

Re: Plasma Life Span?? - Sondek 10:19:25 11/07/05 (0)

extra extra - Joe Murphy Jr 19:15:46 10/29/05 (0)

Re: Plasma Life Span?? - Kal Rubinson 12:15:41 10/26/05 (8)

Psst... - millen 12:31:17 10/26/05 (7)

Re: Psst...Busting Plasma Myths.. - Rich H 13:20:19 11/10/05 (0)

Either way,,,,,,,, - Kal Rubinson 17:37:27 10/26/05 (5)

Re: Either way,,,,,,,, - Shakey 18:57:10 10/26/05 (4)

Re: Either way,,,,,,,, - unclestu52 13:37:03 10/27/05 (2)

That had something to do with it as well.... - millen 13:48:40 10/27/05 (1)

Pixel orbiter is..... - Kal Rubinson 17:09:51 10/27/05 (0)

Dunno. - Kal Rubinson 19:09:42 10/26/05 (0)

Follow Ups

Re: do whatever works for you - Rich H 17:36:13 11/10/05 (4)

Re: paranoia is an overstatement - budget minded 03:20:07 11/18/05 (3)

Mebbe it's not paranoia - Kal Rubinson 09:22:30 11/18/05 (2)

Re: no argument there - budget minded 04:07:07 11/20/05 (1)

Enough, please - Kal Rubinson 07:31:09 11/20/05 (0)

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