http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/ Engadget Comments for Philips not yet phasing out plasmas, focusing on LCD TVs http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/Mar 15th 2007 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/Mar 15th 2007 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/
Yeah, including mine. You have no idea how angry you've made me with that one sentence. I love it when people believe the plasma old myths. There is absolutely no reason a plasma can't be used for video games. And don't even say the words "burn in" because I will automatically disregard everything you have to say after that. Plasma DO NOT burn in images anymore. Plasma, however, do still suffer from image retention, but you'll never see it and it's quickly wiped away after changing the image on the screen.

I just can't get over the fact that people still believe the old plasma myths. Oh well, I guess it's too much trouble to actually do your own research, it's easier to just believe what the high school kid working at Best Buy tells you.

Do me a favor and go to yahoo and search for "white paper just the facts on plasma tv performance" and go to the first PDF link it finds and read it, it will do you a world of good.]]>Mar 15th 2007 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/
Ambilight is a cool distraction, but, surely they must have something else up their sleeves. ]]>Mar 15th 2007 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/Mar 15th 2007 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/
Correction, affordable plasmas aren't 1080. But they soon will be. And I'd take a 720 plasma over a 1080 LCD any day. Resolution is the last thing the human eye notices after color reproduction, contrast ratio, and black levels, all areas in which plasma are superior.

Stop regurgitating the "myths" you've all come to be familiar with, and actually do some research.]]>Mar 15th 2007 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/
A) Sarcasm, I'll tag it for you next time.

B) Not Kid@Best Buy.

C) You're a plasma fanboy. Good for you, there are reasons not to get one, just as there are reasons to get one. Plasma isn't the end all be all, nothing is, really.]]>Mar 15th 2007 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/
Plasmas still give you the very best picture for a flat panel out there, color accuracy is right on, and LCDs are still at least 5 years behind plasmas in every other manner except brightness.

I sincerely hope Sony gets back into plasmas, their plasmas were the most beautiful TVs ever made, with their floating glass design.]]>Mar 15th 2007 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/May 21st 2007 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/Mar 15th 2007 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/
burn in: simply doesn't happen anymore at least on a good panel. temporary image retention? yes permanent burn in? no

picture fade: the "half life" of a plasma TV is around 60,000 hours these days. that's 8 hours of TV watching a day for 20 years!!

buzzing: a quality (pioneer or panasonic) plasma is as quiet as a mouse, a dead mouse. ;)

not good for video games: this is directly related to burn in as in video games, there can be a static image on the screen a lot of the time. see the "burn in" section above.]]>Mar 15th 2007 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/Mar 15th 2007 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/May 21st 2007 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/philips-phasing-out-plasmas-focusing-on-lcd-tvs/Jun 1st 2007 11:35AM