Give it 3 more years and plasma will probably be dead, Even panasonic are cutting the range back, next year they think we will only see 2 models, another year possibly the same or none, it really depends on how well they sell this year.
It also doesnt help as the multiples probably wont be stocking plasmas and only keeping LED tv's.
I had a Panasonic G10 plasma and have upgraded/downgraded to a 47lm620 LG LED, which im very happy with, it does have some light bleed in the corners but its very minimal and on dark films hardly noticeable.
Yes motion isnt as good on some things, but to most its fine,and the input lag for gaming in Pc mode is 31ms according to a review site.
yes but you're buying for today and right now Panny is the best, OLED is some time off, at least 2 years from now, i'd rather have the best now and the best in 2 years time.
pannys biggest problem is they dont advertise their tvs anymore, so the general public dont even know they exist... joe average goes straight to Currys and buys a Smart LED, just because he thinks it looks trendy and gives him street cred, just like his Krappy Smart Phone.
panasonic are in trouble..... yea without advertising they will be, plus tv sales are low anyway; for lots of reasons.
Panny's TV sales were fine last year (although not superb or anything) - they are going to phase out plasma yes... but that's because they are fully committed to OLED which is the natural successor.
yes, but joe average wont buy OLED at 5 to 10 thousand quid, so selling OLED is going to be a real problem, expect sales to be low; unless the price is low....sales will be like now, but deffo not like when HD TV first came out 7 years ago... everyone switched, but not now, everyone is making do with what they've got.
the boom for HD TV is therefore over, it's tailing out, it's only really for us lot, you might therefore still see Plasma tv, i expect Panny will keep selling top quality plasmas, but dump their LED instead.
Panny probably make enough money just selling their plasmas to us fans, there must be loads of panasonic fans like me around the country, AV Forum is full of us lot, these new pannys are really popular...and they're really big in Europe too !!!!!
it's therefore easy for them to make just a few high quality plasmas that all sell out, rather than loads of rubbish LEDs that dont.
the new panny is being pre-ordered like crazy by its fans and the ST 50 is selling out fast, this is not a company in trouble, just one that's slimming down.
if you're a fan, you'll replace your tv every year or two....this is enough to keep Panasonic going
