Here in Japan you can walk into any major electronic store and see the movement. The TV section is mostly made up of LCDs these days. The plasma section is getting smaller and smaller. (reminiscent of the tube to plasma transitions we saw a few years ago) Seems that the South Koreans have moved more into Plasma and Japan has moved on to LCD. Having said all that however, I just got a great deal on a Pioneer PDP-436HD! Even the new LCDs...just something about them that seems unnatural....?!?
CliveW
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All I can say is that all the LCDs I've seen fail on the black levels when comparing plasma to LCD, although I'm willing to be corrected here! In my mind this is what makes the LCD look more unnatural. I was comparing them side-by-side in Frys the other day and I couldn't get any of the LCDs to come even close to the depth in the dark areas. The LCD seems always to be sat at a slightly lighter grey level. The depth of the plasma wins every time. That said, the LCDs win when it comes to the low reflection you get. I don't think you can get a plasma without a nasty reflective glass front, can you? Maybe you can't get deep black levels without the glass......
Anonymous
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Yea, you speak the truth! Don't know the specs on blackness but to my eye, the black is not black on LCDs. The demo on the Sharp series shows a jungle scene that pans slowly across the leaves. Looks awesome but then I saw one that had ice skating playing and still something nagging me about the movement, hard to explain. I almost bought a LCD for the low reflection that you mention. However, I can happily say that the brightness of my new plasma completely overpowers the reflection that used to wash out my old tube type. Technology moves on so by the time this gets posted something new will probably be out....All I can say is that I am very happy with my plasma....just hope I can get it repaired 5 or 10 years later..if necessary.
Galileo
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Plasma's do get reflection, they have a greater viewing area than LCD. The plasma can be higher or lower in the line of sight and still have a great picture. I would purchase large screen LCD in the future once they meet the specs on plasma.
I specifically bought the Pioneer due its advertised "low reflection" characteristics. Seems that most plasmas have a piece of glass with some type of color filter on it then a small void and then the actual chamber that holds all the plasma. This causes twice as much reflection (one off the front glass and the next off the chamber with the plasma). Pioneer says they only have the once piece of glass with the color filter that is part of the chamber that holds the plasma. Reflection has not been much of a problem for me so far.