LG 50PC2DR monster 50-inch wireless plasma set
By Peter Rojas 
posted Jan 4th 2006 1:13PM
posted Jan 4th 2006 1:13PM
The big news from LG this morning? A new 50-inch flagship plasma TV with dual HD tuners so you can watch and record two different shows at the same time, CableCard support so you can use it without a cable box, and a memory card reader. LG claims that the 50PC2DR will have a 60,000 hour life for the screen and will be out sometime in the 2nd half of the year.
60,000 hour screen life? Is this a reasonable length of time for a plasma screen? I'm not familiar with this issue.
60,000 hours = 8 hours a day, every day, for ~20 years. Sounds reasonable to me.
This is the standard lifetime of most current gen plasmas.
If you assume 6 hours of TV watching per day, 60,000 hours means 10,000 days or 27.4 years. Not bad.
I had never noticed this either, but I have been looking at Dell's 50" and they also atate a 60,000 hour screen life with the following disclaimer:
"2 Plasma display average operational life of 60,000 hours based on retention of 50% of original brightness."
I don't see what LG is offering that Dell and others don't already have, unless they are going to price it at $2500 or so.
What is a wireless plasma set? It still needs power so it can't really be wireless. Perhaps rabbit-ears? Isn't new technology wonderful - the wonders of television reception without wires!
i think the wireless is to do with the reciever box, so you dont need to wireup between reciever and tv be it a cable or sat box. dont know how it works with ure tivo and dvd player.
i seen this on the LG website a while a go about the wirless stuff, they going to have batterys as well as wirelesson smaller displays make them portable,
or maybe i talk s**t.
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Your "wireless" linksys router has to be plugged into the wall. It still needs power, therefore it cant be "wireless" right?
Hmmm, a battery powered 50" plasma TV??? What, maybe 3000 D cells, 2200 C cells, 1800 AA's and 4800 AAA's to power that bad boy for 45 minutes? Of course at 4500 pounds, you probably wouldn't want to hang it on a wall.....
I wanna Know how they Know that it has 60,000 hours of life when it's a brand new Plasma Screen? I work with plasmas all the time and anyone who knows anything about them know that they turn grey after a few years. So if your at your 7th year squinting at the screen remember it was a good buy. actually find someone who has had theirs for 10 years now.
That thing looks absolutely SWEET! Too bad I alreay have a 54" Mitsubishi rear projection TV...