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Nothing happened to them. Nothing ever happens to them! There's a now twenty year old Panasonic still hanging on my wall that refuses to stop working flawless
by femto113 4y ago
Nothing happened to them. Nothing ever happens to them! There's a now twenty year old Panasonic still hanging on my wall that refuses to stop working flawlessly and thus allow me to guiltlessly replace its 480 fat & smugly glowing rows of pixels with something a little more modern.
- garblegarble 4y agoIf you're looking for a reason to replace it you could probably work out how much it's costing you in energy (and possibly extra AC workload if you're in a hot country!) vs an OLED
- saiya-jin 4y agoSaving few bucks to degrade viewing experience may not be a good choice for most people. You know you can save 100% when living in the tent in the forest
- Ma8ee 4y agoI guess you aren't in Europe currently. Right now I'm paying ¢71 per kWh. So that plasma TV would easily cost tens of $ every month.
- rsynnott 4y agoA QD-OLED (or even a normal modern OLED) is probably a better viewing experience than an SD plasma. The issue is that the LCDs that were dominant for a while weren't.
- speedgoose 4y agoIf you are fine with 480p, you may want to check your eyes. You may need glasses or new glasses.
- femto113 4y agoIt's kind of a trolley problem: I'm not "fine" with 480p, but also not fine with throwing away stuff that still works. That seems to mean the status quo wins until the thing stops working.
- louhike 4y agoI have to disagree. 480p on the web might awful, but a well encoded DVD still looks really good
- speedgoose 4y agoOn a small screen it's not extremely bad but you lose a lot of information.
- pjc50 4y agoDVDs are natively 480. There isn't any more information on the disc to lose. Would it be nice to have a 4k transfer from the original 35mm? Yes. Can you get that from the film licensees? Not necessarily.
- astrange 4y agoHe might have the common "mounted the TV over the fireplace" affliction which means it's so far away you can't tell the difference.
- speedgoose 4y agoIt must be a very big room and a very small TV to not tell the difference. Or bad vision.
- pjc50 4y agoThose of us who grew up in the analogue TV era are simply used to it.
- bergenty 4y ago480p? I mean do you need anymore reasons?