Re: Plasma TVs and Diary of a two-channel man....(plus questions)

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Posted by Rich H on April 26, 2001 at 12:09:33

In Reply to: Re: Plasma TVs and Diary of a two-channel man....(plus questions) posted by Victor Khomenko on April 26, 2001 at 10:28:18:

>>"Ah, yes. It is a dying overpriced technology. It doesn't even come close to the quality offered by any number of direct view TV's.

Plasma today is strictly a life style sale - flat display if you must have THAT feature. In all other areas it basically
is completely outdated." <<

It's funny Victor. That was exactly my feeling until recently. I'm not a home theater guy - one reason being that I'm very sensitive to picture artifacts. Whenever I've looked at TVs, no matter what price or technology, I've been disappointed by how bad the images look. Big TVs seemed to be simply blowing up low-resolution images. My loudest laughs were reserved for people dishing out money for the crappy, smeared images on Plasma screens, just to have a cool-looking flat TV. Count me an uninterested cynic.

But last fall I was in a AV store in NYC and the best picture display there was clearly a new Plasma screen playing a DVD (don't know which screen it was). It was, aside from HDTV, the very first time a tv image made me go "WOW!" Then I encounter this Panasonic plasma set in my local AV dealer and, to my eyes, it is clearly a step above everything they have in their very large, high-priced store. It is the single display that, for picture quality alone, makes me absolutely lust after it. (The other plasma screens in the store are disappointing in comparison). I haven't seen a direct view TV yet that didn't display an annoying (to me) presence of lines, blurring, crispies or other artifacts. In comparison, this Plasma screen is like looking through a window.

So, either you and I haven't been looking at the same top-quality plasma screens, or beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Rich H.

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Topic - Plasma TVs and Diary of a two-channel man....(plus questions) - Rich H 00:32:36 04/25/01 (15)

Re: Plasma TVs and Diary of a two-channel man....(plus questions) - Alan 18:24:51 05/13/01 (0)

Do yourself a favor.... - Jimmbo 10:44:01 04/26/01 (0)

Re: Plasma TVs and Diary of a two-channel man....(plus questions) - Victor Khomenko 10:28:18 04/26/01 (5)

Re: Plasma TVs and Diary of a two-channel man....(plus questions) - Rich H 12:09:33 04/26/01 (4)

That sexy, sexy, sexy plasma... - Victor Khomenko 15:48:30 04/26/01 (3)

Re: That sexy, sexy, sexy plasma... - Rich H 17:31:12 04/26/01 (2)

Re: That sexy, sexy, sexy plasma... - Roland 18:34:17 04/26/01 (1)

Re: That sexy, sexy, sexy plasma... - 30pw9815 13:52:23 05/01/01 (0)

Thanks guys, and.... - Rich H 22:11:24 04/25/01 (3)

I would be careful - Victor Khomenko 10:40:12 04/26/01 (2)

Re: I would be careful...Thanks, you're right. - Rich H 12:12:11 04/26/01 (1)

Re: I would be careful...Thanks, you're right. - pete 14:01:00 04/28/01 (0)

They're both correct... - Estes 19:10:53 04/25/01 (0)

Consider the Source - Dan G. 12:33:32 04/25/01 (0)

got a idea for you................ - bob 03:20:01 04/25/01 (0)

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Re: Plasma TVs and Diary of a two-channel man....(plus questions) - Rich H 12:09:33 04/26/01 (4)

That sexy, sexy, sexy plasma... - Victor Khomenko 15:48:30 04/26/01 (3)

Re: That sexy, sexy, sexy plasma... - Rich H 17:31:12 04/26/01 (2)

Re: That sexy, sexy, sexy plasma... - Roland 18:34:17 04/26/01 (1)

Re: That sexy, sexy, sexy plasma... - 30pw9815 13:52:23 05/01/01 (0)

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