No new plasmas anymore?

[JJ]

Originally Posted by Pondosinatra

How long did you have the Panny???

Oh my gosh, you're bringing back horrible memories.

About 9 months. Then the screen started developing a "disease" that spread throughout the entire panel. Discoloring, panel uniformity went into the garbage. Panny tried to fix it twice to no avail, by then there were none available (October 2014) so they gave me a refund. At the time, there was only 1 or 2 other mentions of the same issue on the internet, on AVSForums. I haven't wandered back since.

Then I tried projector - Epson 5030 and Sony VPL40, both of which were defeated by my room - not so much the lighting/walls, but by my unchangeable seating distance of 7'6", which on a 92" screen meant I saw screen door effect on the Epson and after continued viewing ended up being too large for the viewing distance for the Sony.

So instead of making a smaller 75" or 80" screen, I scrapped it altogether and bought a Samsung 65" JS8500. Had it for two weeks now, couldn't be happier. Daytime viewing is back, I have great blacks, 4K (which on the 25 hours of 4K content I have readily available, aint bad!) and amazing color, on par with the ZT65.

Only downside is the occasional moment the edgelighting is noticeable (credits scenes) and bad viewing angles past 30 degrees or so.

But in a world of compromises nowadays, it's the best choice. Just took me almost a year to find it.

[Pondosinatra]

Originally Posted by JJ

Oh my gosh, you're bringing back horrible memories.

About 9 months. Then the screen started developing a "disease" that spread throughout the entire panel. Discoloring, panel uniformity went into the garbage. Panny tried to fix it twice to no avail, by then there were none available (October 2014) so they gave me a refund. At the time, there was only 1 or 2 other mentions of the same issue on the internet, on AVSForums. I haven't wandered back since.

Then I tried projector - Epson 5030 and Sony VPL40, both of which were defeated by my room - not so much the lighting/walls, but by my unchangeable seating distance of 7'6", which on a 92" screen meant I saw screen door effect on the Epson and after continued viewing ended up being too large for the viewing distance for the Sony.

So instead of making a smaller 75" or 80" screen, I scrapped it altogether and bought a Samsung 65" JS8500. Had it for two weeks now, couldn't be happier. Daytime viewing is back, I have great blacks, 4K (which on the 25 hours of 4K content I have readily available, aint bad!) and amazing color, on par with the ZT65.

Only downside is the occasional moment the edgelighting is noticeable (credits scenes) and bad viewing angles past 30 degrees or so.

But in a world of compromises nowadays, it's the best choice. Just took me almost a year to find it.

Hmmmm. I've had a VT upstairs for a couple years? now with no problems. I also bought the ZT over a year ago, but it's still in the original box as I've been waiting to get the basement done. Fingers crossed when it gets installed in a few weeks all is good. Maybe I'll hang on to my Kuro just in case.

[BarkingGhost]

This is truly sad. First development of FED/SED lost out to the continued milking of LCD and plasma, but now plasma loses out to the continued milking or LCD for the Wally World consortium.

OK, good to know anyway. I'll just go buy another projector.

[slimdude]

Unfortunately Plasma TVs have been discontinued! It's a shame because, I always thought Plasma looked much better than LCDs. I have a Panasonic Plasma HDTV, and it look absolutely gorgeous. Panasonic were the next best thing to the now defunct Pioneer Kuro.

[JOHN MFN D.]

Hopefully my Panny has a few more years in it. I really do enjoy it!

[RickWJ324]

My main 2 tv's (51" living room and 42" bedroom) are both Samsung plasmas! Best deal for the price and picture! Much preferred over lcd!!

It'll be a sad day when they eventually die on me....

[R3P0]

Originally Posted by RickWJ324

My main 2 tv's (51" living room and 42" bedroom) are both Samsung plasmas! Best deal for the price and picture! Much preferred over lcd!!

It'll be a sad day when they eventually die on me....

By then OLED should be perfected and you can just get that