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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Panasonic and Pioneers are pretty much accepted as the best plasma's out there. With Panasonic's being much more reasonably priced.
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Agreed.
My brother just bought a new 50 inch Panasonic Plasma - 50PHD8UK. We are picking up this afternoon! It is $4700, with tax, local here in Calgary.
The half-life on that plasma is 60K hours. On his current plasma, he runs the brightness at about 25% because the TV is in the basement. Unless the TV is across from your picture window and in direct sunlight, I dont see anyone using a brightness higher than 50%. Even in a bright room, anything brighter than that would make your colors all wonky - the black would be grey, the white would blur, etc, etc.
In short, 60K hour half life is TONS! I am guessing it would be something like 90,000 hours (over 10 years of use at 24 hours a day) before the TV couldnt put out enough brightness.
Like you said, the plasma offers the best picture. But, the cost is greater than a DLP Projection TV. It all comes down wether or not the better picture is worth the extra money to you. Hey, I have met people that dont think HDTV is 'worth' much more than regular TV.
Either way a person goes, they will soon find out that the largest shortcoming of ANY display device is the poor video quality of our broadcasts. Any SD signal looks pretty bad on a 42+ inch display, and even the HD isnt as clear as it once was.