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RE: Slightly OT: home cinema
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- Subject: RE: Slightly OT: home cinema
- From: "Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 15:16:38 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennethwatt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 April 2001 10:44
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Slightly OT: home cinema
>
>
> Phil,
>
>
> Plasma, unless the price takes a serious tumble, life expectancy is
> increased and quality improved will not challenge any other technology
> around in the mass market, whereas LCD is established already, is
> reasonably
If you are looking for the quality to drastically improve, then Panasonic
have already done it! They have solved two problems which plague ALL other
plasmas on the market - black levels looking black and not grey, and
posterisation, or colour banding. Most existing panels can only display 256
shades of grey - the Panasonic can display (I think) 1024.
They still aren't cheap though, I'll agree, but I think that has more to do
with yield problems than licensing costs. How much would a 42"
diagonal LCD
cost? Prices have halved in the last year, and I'm sure that as yields
improve that costs will continue to be driven down. As Keith has mentioned
Plasma is only an interim measure, LEP screens have been "coming in 6
months" for the last 2 years!
Only time will tell on the life issue, but you can be sure that I will keep
a very close eye on it.
Tim.
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