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Plasma Dead

brentsg said:
Many companies outsource LCD panel production and I don't see anyone claiming LCD has been killed off.
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True, but has the BEST LCD company decided to stop making them? No. They end up being the ones providing the panels to others.

Many, myself included, consider Pioneer to be the best. Part of this superiority must be in the panel itself - no? Now that all Pioneer non-LCD sets will have Panasonic plasma panels in them, why bother? Just buy a Panasonic. How is Pioneer going to maintain superiority while using someone else's supposed inferior panels? I really doubt that most of Pioneer's edge lies in the electronics feeding the panel...

As far as cheering the "death" of plasma? Whatever. After the burn-in and other teething problems for plasma were dealt with I feel it pulled ahead on the basis of IQ. I can go to a huge Best Buy and compare a huge wall of HD sets and almost all of the LCDs look grainy, digital, over saturated colour, over-sharpened signals, sparkley, like looking through a screen door, or have dead/stuck pixels. The plasmas may not scream "look at my artificially sharp looking overlay sports graphics" but the plasmas are all easy to watch and look natural. I'd take a 720p Pioneer (even before Kuro) over the 1080p LCDs I've seen - even from Sharp. Of course the ignorant just look at the LCDs and say "look how bright the colours are! Let's get it!". The wide gamut Sonys seemed to present less of this problem.

This move was purely business oriented. The stock jumped because Pioneer was in the red trying to build a better product with their own factories. Now the shareholders will lose less money by outsourcing components, and people will continue to buy Pioneer based on reputation unaware that they aren't even Pioneer panels any longer. I'm sure the sales guy at the store won't be volunteering that information.
 
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