February 26th, 2009
A week or so ago, Pioneer announced that it was leaving the plasma market. Vizio is out of the plasma market too and now there’s word that LG may abandon plasma as well.
I wish that someone–maybe Santino?–would write a big reporting piece explaining what this all means. So far as I can tell, plasma is technically superior to LCD (though the gap has narrowed) and is competitive, maybe even better, price wise. So why is LCD outselling plasma 8-1?
On first blush, I wonder if this has something to do with computer displays: Maybe having a built-in manufacturing base for all of those LCD computer displays gives LCD a giant edge in production costs? Though that only matters for manufacturers, not consumers.
For my own part, I love my Pioneer plasma set and have no plans to replace it until I leapfrog into an OLED.
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