I spent weeks reading through thousands of posts at the AV forum, http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/
and ended up with a great Samsung 50" Plasma... :) -- JRS [email protected] Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Bino Gopal <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 11:49:51 AM > Subject: Re: [H] advise > > Yeah Pioneer got out of the "making" plasma business. I know a bit about > this b/c I researched extensively (and dithered for a while too) when my 26" > Sony XBR WEGA CRT died earlier this year in Feb; was the best picture you > could get, but it was just too small and I wanted something bigger. > > The Pioneer is still the best picture you're going to get, even compared to > new LCDs b/c the blacks are the blackest and all that. That's b/c the > filter or comb or whatever you call it on the Kuros (Kuro is the plasma > line; the Elites are the best of the Kuros) are HANDMADE; yes, no joke-it's > also why they were so expensive, and couldn't scale, especially with the > economic downturn. > > So I was very tempted to pick one up; Best Buy had sales on them and was > considering a display model two, but the 2 problems with that: > > 1) Since they're no longer making them, if something happens, what would I > get as a replacement? Basically no guarantees on warranty or anything > 2) The 60" (I wanted at least that size) was ~$5-6k, even if I got a floor > model which has been on for a while, etc > > Since I got a 60" LED DLP that looks great for $950 (and just has a little > hotspotting; otherwise the picture is AWESOME with HD cable (though you can > tell which channels are skimping on the bandwidth, and which aren't-I will > say SyFy and USA are doing a *very* good job there) and for what I paid I > wouldn't feel bad in getting a new set in 2 or more years if I wanted > to-though I don't hope to need to. > > And by then, things will have changed enough there'll be better tech out > there that obviates all this stuff. > > And yeah, if you look at the industry, LCD has always been an inferior > picture; it's gotten better, but objectives test show it's still not as good > as a good plasma (read: Pioneer Kuro Elite, or the best Panasonics, which > aren't bad either), but it was all a function of thinness and marketing; the > buying public is not the techie or detail-oriented and if you can fool them, > you drive the market to kill all the non-thin sets, and plasma was still too > expensive in comparison and also uses a lot more power. > > I mean, an LCD tv is just a big computer monitor right? There's stuff > native to the technology that don't make it good for viewing tv/movies and > all that motion, hence all the 120Hz, 240Hz BS they have to do to compensate > for that (I was talking to an ISF certified tech while at Best Buy who was > filling me in on some of this stuff). > > I mean, some of the new tvs with the 240Hz "super-reality" stuff just looks > WRONG-have you guys seen what I'm talking about?! It's crazy; it takes > movies and makes them look like video and it just looks WRONG! > > Anyway, just some random thoughts not organized very well since I spent > quite a lot of time earlier this year researching and deciding what to > do...HTH! > > BINO
