Video Asylum

Posted by Joe Murphy Jr (A) on December 04, 2011 at 17:47:44

In Reply to: RE: plasma = radiator? posted by pbarach on December 04, 2011 at 12:29:24

110 lbs vs 40 lbs? What does a wall or decent entertainment center care? So weight has no relevance, unless you hold up your display. Which reminds me of a very short conversation I had with a Best Buy "team leader". He was trying to impress two of his underlings about DLP vs plasma. He started going on about the "advantages" of DLP sets and actually picked up a 43" Samsung to show me how little it weighed. I said, "That's nice, but most people either put their displays on an entertainment center or mount them on the wall. Not too many people hold their display in their arms when it's TV time.". The other two started laughing so hard they had to walk away.

He never spoke to me again.

As for heat, I never owned a Toshiba plasma, but my late 2003 model 50" Panasonic is only warm even after hours of gaming from the kids, a Sunday's worth of football games or a movie. Even my 42" Sylvania (made by Funai) from 2007 is barely hot after hours of use. And that's because it has no fans. The 50" Panasonic has two virtually silent fans that can only be heard at startup -- a slight "whirrr" -- but go stealth in about 5 seconds.