Where on earth do you get your information from, Psycho?
LCD sets are more expensive than plasma so I don't get what your saying here.
LCD's have sold better because they have been thinner, more efficient and marketed a hell of a lot better, not because of them being cheap because they are far more expensive than plasma for comparable panels.
Not when the Kuro's were on the go... $6,000 - $9,000.
http://www.techradar.com/news/telev...ioneer-kuro-uk-plasma-prices-confirmed-171944
Let alone Pioneer Kuro PDP-LX6090. "I still think that the
starting point of £4,300 isn't too unreasonable for a prestige 60in"
Plasma has always been more expensive than LCD. It's why nearly everyone can get LCD TV's for £200 - £700 and think it's got great black levels on the shop floor. That as well as torch mode. It's what sells as first impression.
Yes, I agree LCD's have been marketed very well. Energy bill saving, tick! If Plasma's are so cheap why isn't the market saturated with Plasma's? Just about every TV ad I saw for years were LCD's. Occasionally on Sky ads years ago before a film started it was Viera. It's been such a long time since I can remember and I'm not sure what models they are.
Pioneer and Panasonic pulled out of Plasma because they weren't selling like LCD's. It's the same reason why Samsung has dropped one of their 2014 Plasma's.
http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/samsung-h7000-201403153671.htm
RobbyTV AVSForum said:
it's all about profit and the uninformed consumer.
Even all the Samsung Reps at my Local Best Buy claim that Samsung has never used such a panel on any of the Samsung TV's
Weboh AVSForum said:
Last years cheap Samsung 1080p used something that looked what seems to be pentile. It was not a very sharp TV, because of it.
Psycho Sonny said:
i mean put a fat tv and a thin tv in front of a moron and ask him to pick one and every time he will pick the thin one regardless of the picture quality.
You'd be a stellar teacher, Sonny. Not everyone is a moron and most don't know or has been educated. Doesn't make them morons. Were you born with any technology/TV knowledge? Your description certainly shows how you have no clue about marketing. Looks sell but it's whether they know what the technology is like inside. Most don't.
Going by your description that makes you a "moron" as well.
Besides, most just see TV's as TV's until they have been informed. Some learn some don't want to learn. Doesn't make them morons. I really wish you'd stop calling people morons.
Some learn about them, most don't or most don't care. To them, it's just a TV. It's just entertainment after work.
Also, super thin LCD's come with a price. Edge-lit. So many are wanting 4k - 8k 60"+ but watch fast panning shots on edge-lit screens and you'll see the streaks. Then people start complaining about it months to years later after they have found out what it is. People want super thin screens so they get edge-lit and because of that the panel can't evenly light the screen.
Psycho Sonny said:
people think plasma is old outdated tech that's why it's cheaper, therefore the "newer LED" which is more expensive must be far better quality, that's how the masses think.
While thats partially true, Plasma has never been cheaper unless you go to the budget range but both have budget ranges and LCD still beats out lower priced Plasma. Some LCD TV's you can get for £120. However, no top end LCD currently can beat a high end Plasma and it comes with a price for that reason. Plus the fact so many people have been drilled with the energy efficient LCD marketing. As well as scared off with screen burn but thats a whole other topic.
Let alone OLED.
AVSForum said:
Plasma tech has plenty of problems too. And everybody who though OLED was going to be problem-free... HA! They are in for a big surprise... like pixels illuminated at 100% can't maintain that level of light output very long before the pixel dims to protect itself from head damage. And there's the face that anything organic begins decaying right after it comes into existence... nobody is saying how long we can expect OLED displays to look good before the organic (i.e. carbon) based LEDs begin to drift as they decay.
There is no perfect or ideal video display tech and there may never be one. DLP has, perhaps the fewest compromises but today the only way to get DLP is in a projector. And that's not practical in a room that gets a lot of light during the day.
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I said the resolution is the same, which it is. The fact that you manage to become more "informed" watching 1080p rather than 1080i is completely psychological.
