This is indeed sad. Why does so much of the tech world embrace lesser tech? I understand the lower cost aspect for consumers, but there will always be a market for higher end gear.
I do not think its always embracing something that is lesser, but something that will work better for them. I have a few friends who have had plasma tv's in the last 4 years or so. Because part of what they used their tv's for was gaming, they had some burn in on items on the screen that did not move at all during game play, like a map or something situated in a corner of the screen. One of my friends returned his plasma after a week because of burn in on the screen. Not sure if this is something that has changed with plasma recently, but I know I would not want something that I would have to worry about burn in. Never had that with my LCD tv and I have accidentally left a game on pause with the tv on for extended periods of time.
I'm pretty sure Samsung & LG will continue to put out Plasmas but Panasonic leaving is a shame since their TVs were the best out there, and this years VT60 & ZT60 have usurped the legendary Pioneer Kuro as the best TV ever made.
Luckily I recently picked up a 65" VT50 for a decent price so I should be set until OLED TVs finally become affordable.
A lot of the reasoning has to do with plant design.
If you design a plant to produce 10,000,000 units a year and demand is 500,000, in most cases it is very difficult and expensive to scale production back to that level.
With two major competitors out of the picture will be interesting to see if Samsung can maintain enough sales to make it worthwhile for them to stay in the game.
this is incredibly sad.. Panasonic makes one of the best plasmas out there..
my samsung is turd - even my Pioneer Plasma [ production quality ] does not compare to Panasonic...
Burn in can be fixed with a solid white screen usually. All they would have needed to do was display a solid white full screen image overnight. It works with typical LCD also.
Burn in can be fixed with a solid white screen usually. All they would have needed to do was display a solid white full screen image overnight. It works with typical LCD also.
Well, the writing was on the wall long ago once the newest technologies such as OLED and 4K, etc. were announced. Once these newer displays start making it to retail at reasonable prices, who is going to bother with plasma? It has pretty well hit the wall.
I was just at a sales conference and during a session with Panasonic the whole "shut down of plasma" thing was all we talked about (all we let them talk about) and they basically spent the whole time assuring us it was BS.
I can't speak for how the older Plasma screens work, but I've never seen any burn-in of any kind on my LG. We often leave it for extended periods on stations that have substantial static onscreen graphics, and there's never an issue.
The biggest reason I prefer Plasmas is they do action and fast motion so much smoother. For fast action sports like hockey or MMA, there's nothing else I've ever seen that's even close.
You have to be a complete toolbox to get burn in (not IR, actual burn in) on any plasma made since like 2007 or so. 90% of the objections to plasma raised by customers and perpetuated by ignorant salespeople are simply FUD to the absolute max.
Reviews of plasma tvs still complain about burn in. That's one reason why we avoided them.
It has always been said that plasma is bad for gaming, it's odd that people still buy them when they'd be using them for that.
Several years ago when the number of plasma models died down they said it was because people were cheap and weren't buying plasma tvs when you could LCD the same size for a lot less.
Too bad thye're going byebye.
Oh, this SUCKS! I'm not impressed with any LCD or LED set I've seen. Those refresh rates are terrible…makes everything look like it's in very slight fast forward!
We've had a 46" Panasonic plasma for going on 4 years now. It's still beautiful in every way! We had a slight mishap where a hammer flew into the screen (don't ask! LOL) and caused a 'tear' if you will that's very bright on light scenes, but invisible in dark ones…but even with that…it's still a blood great tv set.
i recently bought a 42" panny from 08 for a 2nd set...it cost me less than 1/2 of what an "entry level" LED set goes for at future shop and it trounces it handily in the PQ department.
Why? As the title says "Plasma Display Manufacture Coming To An End".
It doesn't say it IS dead or has come to an end but it sure seems to be getting closer and maybe even faster than some realize.
As another recent article says:
"Now plasma TVs are in low demand and increasingly limited supply.
The format's biggest cheerleader, Panasonic, this month revealed it will stop making plasma televisions, reducing its proponents to only two companies.
But experts and retailers alike say the plasma TV's death has been a long time coming, and new TV technology such as OLED and 4K screens has sealed its fate.
Panasonic announced its withdrawal from the plasma market following months of speculation, explaining that "declining demand" was forcing it to stop producing plasma TVs in December. ..."
plasma was dead the minute pioneer produced the best one ever and promptly sold so few they went tits up ...its been dead since 2008 and just didn't know enough to lie down.
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