Video Asylum

Posted by tinear (A) on August 21, 2014 at 14:01:16

In Reply to: RE: The second sentence says it all-- the vacillation of all time. And this is one critic. The contention was that posted by mrdavis842 on August 21, 2014 at 13:33:48

And this, by the moderator at forums. highdefdigest.com
"It isn't about surpassing, or having the ability to. Pioneer couldn't figure out a way to make Kuro displays without them being cost prohibitive. Kuros weren't expensive because they were making money, they were expensive because it cost a lot more to make those displays than others.

Panasonic, when they bought a lot of the Kuro technology, took what they could that could be profitable, but were not able to find a better way than Pioneer had in getting the pure blacks and quality that Pioneer had been delivering with Kuro without running into the same issue of price that Pioneer ran into.

So, while we have a ton of new bells and whistles, at the end of the day, putting out a phenomenal $8,000 50" display is going to lose manufacturers money, and so they don't even go down that path.

Panasonic has their new ZT series, but I'm not sure what the difference is between that and that VT series." That's from 2013, the last year of Panasonic plasma.
Like that legendary Sony CDP-101, it's a classic. If Panasonic infinitesimally beat the Kuro in blackness, that still leaves overall picture and build quality.
Let's see if seven years from now people are competing to pay top dollar for the Panasonics.