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Posted by Joe Murphy Jr on October 21, 2009 at 14:08:09:
Cost: plasma manufacturing costs are still below LCD costs. So why have many manufacturers exited the plasma business? More profit in LCD due to the markups (not only do you have to make them, you have to sell them to third parties who want to make money). It really is a $ issue.

Misinformation and disinformation: years of incorrect spoutings by untrained, ignorant and downright stupid retail employees has had a [negative] affect on plasma acceptance. Same goes for the online comunity. There's probably a 1:20 ratio (if not worse) of informed: uninformed pro-LCD users when it comes to the plasma vs LCD debate. You can blame the disinformation on the misinformed parties and the retailers. Too many unscrupulous retailers out there along with the ones that just want to make a buck to the ones who are forced, by upper management, to make a buck. How do they do it? Make the LCD sale -- by any means or tactics necessary. I've seen it and I've heard it. You don't know how many times I've wanted to yell "You lie!" and reach over the aisle and smack the shit out of a Best Buy employee for outright lying to a customer seeking information about plasmas.

Myths: so much bullshit in the stores and online, mountains made out of molehills, etc. It amounts to a smear compaign if you really want to get down to it. Think about the following for more than a second. How many decades did we have just Direct View CRT (what plasma technology is based on) and the world was a happy place to be? Then, all of a sudden (the last 6 or so years), that technology and its successor is bad bad bad? Gimme a fucking break!

Now, LCD is clearly the technology to get if there is certain criteria that is important to you or needed under certain circumstances. Anyone not willing to admit that isn't too bright or is a fanboy -- simple as that. However, the climate in this dabate is way off the mark mainly due to the issues stated above.