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I must disagree with comment from "brian catmull" that plasma "full HD image lacks punch, as compared to LCD." All critical and objective tests have shown that LCD still cannot match the black level and shadow detail of plasma, even with the current spot dimming LED backlighting technology. I own large HDTV sets of both kinds, and I must agree with the critics that LCD only looks brighter and deceivingly sharper (careful look between sets side to side with the same materials shows that is not the case) initially, especially in show rooms and with program material that were shot in bright lighting conditions such as sports broadcasts, TV news, or materials that are composed of solid fields of color, such as animations and graphics. However, any video material of real life images such as films, movies, nature documentaries, LCDs provid far inferior and less natural picture than plasma. Now days, I choose NEVER to watch any Bluray or HD DVD (I have both, one of each) video materials on my large LCD set. Black is just too crushed and lack shadow detail on a LCD, so everthing either look like a sharply contured areas of ink, and variations of dark greys into light greys all have the fuzzy and powdery look.

The only current future flat panel technologies that will replace picture qualities of plasma are SED and OLED displays. As a matter of fact, OLED would consume less power than current LCD sets.

I think the public presently choose LCD sets over plasma mainly because most consumers do not purchase HDTV sets under the 50"/52" size range, and that brighter image tends to attract more attention in showroom floors than acurate videophile picture. If you look at the market share of LCD TVs being sold, it is still under the 52" size catagory, while 50", 58", and 60" are still dominated by plasma sets, EVEN TODAY. LCD sets larger than 52" are only made currently by Toshiba and Sharp, and both are very expensive and provide inferior picture quality than competing plasma sets pf the same size category from at least 7 different plasma HDTV manufacturers (Pioneer, Futjitsu, Samsung, LG, Vizio, Panasonic, Hitachi, they all make plasma sets bigger than 50".)]]>Mar 15th 2008 4:21AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/01/06/pioneer-unveils-super-thin-high-contrast-plasma-tvs/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/06/pioneer-unveils-super-thin-high-contrast-plasma-tvs/
"...public presently choose LCD sets over plasma mainly because most consumers do not purchase HDTV sets LAREGER than the 50"/52" size range..."

Majority of consumers still have HDTV sets under 50" size.

If the majority of consumers are buying 58" or 60" sets, then plasma would wipe out LCDs. ]]>Mar 15th 2008 4:27AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/01/06/pioneer-unveils-super-thin-high-contrast-plasma-tvs/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/06/pioneer-unveils-super-thin-high-contrast-plasma-tvs/Jan 6th 2008 7:58PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/01/06/pioneer-unveils-super-thin-high-contrast-plasma-tvs/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/06/pioneer-unveils-super-thin-high-contrast-plasma-tvs/Jan 6th 2008 8:04PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/01/06/pioneer-unveils-super-thin-high-contrast-plasma-tvs/http://www.switched.com/2008/01/06/pioneer-unveils-super-thin-high-contrast-plasma-tvs/their money with Plasma, first off the image
although full HD lacks punch, compared to LCD,
Samsung amongst others have already demonstrated
101cm LCD only 10 mm thick, and here is the knockout blow to Plasma, it uses only 90 watts!!
Plasma are struggling to reduce their power use
for equivalent size down to 300 watts let alone
the LCD current power use of 265 watts, don't
be conned by FALSE advertising from Plasma
manufacturers, Pioneer will be releasing LCD panels for the first time in the company's
history under the PIONEER name in 2008 although
supplied by Sharp, Panasonic are increasing their LCD range in 2008, I will repeat it again
PLASMA WILL BE OFF THE MARKET BY 2010,
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