Quote Originally Posted by Woochifer
Let's see, if there was such thing as a perfect technology to fulfill all of the different expectations with HDTVs, why would all of these competing approaches even exist?
Why did we have several different types of automotive tech? Or two kinds of videotape?
We even had two types of DVD (divix and "straight" dvd)
Several groups of people trying to solve the same problem in different ways.
If the plasma manufacturers had even dreamed that LCD WOULD get so cheap and
SO good so FAST they never would have built a plasma set


Psst, that's otherwise known as COMPETITION, Mr "Libertarian"!
YES, and its great, but this shaking out in video display is taking forever.
Looks like RPTV is the next casualty, then Plasma



Quite the contrary. If they go extinct, it will be because a better technology will have come along at a lower price point. LCD ain't gonna be that technology. I prefer to focus on performance. If I were buying right now, I'd go with plasma. If I were buying a few years from now, I'd see what's out there and decide at that point. If that defines a fanboy, then you're stretching the bounds of nonsensical hyperbole as usual. Then again, with your ramblings, I gotta wonder if your grasp on sanity or logic is more tenuous.
LCD IS THAT "TECHNOLOGY"
The one thing that really pisses me of about you plasma fanboys is you automatically presume that plasma has a better picture,
WHICH IS VERY SUBJECTIVE.
You must be a kid, or you forgot that when plasma first came out the picture was washed
out, grainy, looked like crap.
The picture is better today, but LCD is every bit as good (higher end anyway)
The main problem with plasma that people complained about was "black level", in other words it sucked.
Todays problems with plasma are leaking gas envelopes, massive energy usage,
burn in, and radiaton , paticulary ultraviolet.
But hey if you sit far enough away mayby your kids strange features will only be your genetic heritage


I guess we can now add troll and fanboy to the list of concepts that elude your comprehension!

I guess we can add a lack of comprehension of ANYTHING to yours.
Plasma is doomed, and theres one factor you've missed (well one out of thousands)
Plasma is a lot more expensive to make, ship, and service.
Eventually the industry will kill the market for them on purpose, just so they can standardize production into one form factor.
This has happened before, will happen again