Panasonic plasma losing black level?

[3LB]

...10 year life-span on CRTs...

you mean the picture quality waning after 10yrs or just flat-out quit working altogether?

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

you mean the picture quality waning after 10yrs or just flat-out quit working altogether?

He is talking about when the set begins losing brightness noticeably.

[pixelthis]

you mean the picture quality waning after 10yrs or just flat-out quit working altogether?

With a CRT the picture starts to "wane" out of the box, they glow when hit by an electron beam.
Well, there is no such thing as a free lunch, so they degrade a tiny bit every time they produce light, ever notice how you have to turn up brightness on an older CRT set?
Well, by the time ten years rolls around that tube is getting pretty dim, if its still working,
being its just a giant light bulb.
Sure it might last 15 years, but that is going to be one sad looking picture.
Since plasma is basically a squished CRT, and depends on phospers for light , the claims for a twenty year life span for a plasma are ridiculous, to say the least.
Now come to find out that instead of explaining this(like the instructions of some tube sets did) they just designed them to get brighter as time goes along, to adjust for the degraded phospers.
Actually this is decent engineering, the con is not explaining it to consumers, and it
would be pretty silly to brag about the "great" black levels of plasma, then have to turn around and explain that these black levels will only last for a few years.
While the LCD that they claimed was "inferior" due to lesser blacks just kept chugging along with the same specs twenty years later that it came out of the box with.
This is big, because what set will you pay 2,000$ for?
A plasma that has a picture that , over time, will degrade? THAT IN FIVE YEARS(OR LESS) won't be up to spec?
Or an LCD that , twenty years later, will look pretty much the same!!!

[GMichael]

Or an LCD that , twenty years later, will look pretty much the same, but still not look as good as a 20 year old plasma.!!!

There, fixed that for ya.

[pixelthis]

There, fixed that for ya.

Thanks.
Get excited when I smell blood in the water.

[GMichael]

Thanks.
Get excited when I smell blood in the water.

You just love to rile people up every chance you get. It's ok. It makes for fun reading. As you were.