Quote Originally Posted by macsd View Post
when the flat screen first came out, it was all plasma. it was very expensive thus the change from tube to flat screen was very prohibitive until the LCD came in. this brought the prices of flat screen tv to go down and market start to pick them up. if you notice, very seldom you'll see a plasma tv on sale worldwide
ever since the LCD was introduced.

the reason why it's the cheapest base on your list is simply they are getting rid of their inventory. in short, plasma is on the phase out stage. so my recommendation to you is get the panasonic LCD. i would assume that's the VIERRA series which is really very sharp in color. i strongly recommend you add in 5K and take the HD DVD & HT. An HD DVD player is totally different from an ordinary DVD player. The HD produces better picture quality than an ordinary player. If you would notice, all the display units are all hook-up on a HD player that's why the picture quality are so good. Plug it to our standard cable program then you will see a big deterioration unless you have digital cable provider.

hope this helps.

ps, saan bang shop moi nakita yan, i'm thinking of putting one in my bedroom too.
Bro, plasma is not being phase out contrary to what you posted. The reason why one seldom sees plasma being in big applance stores like abenson, western is bec of more aggressive marketing strategies of LCDs but if you would visit AV specialty stores, then there are more plasmas than lcds. Also, the VIERRA series of Panasonic is PLASMA.
Burn-in or even Image retention problems of plasma tvs were already a thng of the past
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