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Too expensive, chunky, and power hungry while LCDs kept getting cheaper and better.
by faeriechangling 4y ago
Too expensive, chunky, and power hungry while LCDs kept getting cheaper and better.
- bastawhiz 4y agoEveryone I know they had gotten a plasma TV had it die within just a couple years. The article says burn-in became less of an issue, but I'd never seen one that didn't have a burn-in problem. Even if that problem was solved, the public sentiment was that they were heavy, expensive, and unreliable.
- pvorb 4y agoI bought mine in 2010 and it's still working flawlessly to this day. It's my family's only TV and it typically sees about 2 to 4 hours of use per day.
- OJFord 4y agoMy parents' 2005/6 Panasonic 1080i plasma looks better than my much more recent Samsung non-OLED LCD, both are fine, but the plasma is better. Similar usage to yours probably, more earlier in its life.
- christoph 4y agoI've still got a Panasonic plasma from circa 2008, which still seems absolutely bomb proof. It's only used occasionally now for some retro (Dreamcast or MisterFPGA gaming), but the picture, UI, remote and everything about it still screams of rock solid engineering. It does weigh an absolute ton - I would guess around 40KG. It's impossible for one person to lift/move. By comparison, we have a 65" 4K HDR panel in the living room, which I can easily lift & move around on my own without breaking a sweat. The 65" feels nowhere near as well engineered though. The OS seems to lockup and become unresponsive at least once a month, which the Panasonic plasma has never done once in its whole lifetime.
- exodust 4y agoSame. My Panasonic plasma from 2007 still works fine, although mine sits in the garage. I use a projector now. I tried selling the plasma but nobody wanted it, not even for $50. Picture quality is amazing for 1080p sources and low-light viewing. It disturbs me how millions of plasma TVs would have been made. Now they are unwanted with nowhere to go. I like to imagine a highly efficient recycle program would strip them down for parts. In reality I suspect most end up in landfill and aren't much value in the recycle business.
- neighbour 4y ago>and power hungry This is an important point. My household uses very little power and when we eventually switched out our old plasma TV after a decade or so of use, our power bill halved. It's hard to pin it all on the TV because this is hardly a scientific experiment but that was the only notable change during that period.
- someweirdperson 4y agoMy LED bulbs paid for themselves in 6 months of reduced consumption. My new TV that replaced a plasma TV will take 3 years to do so. (EU electricity prices. With increasing prices expected it is probably going to take less than originally estimated.)