Samsung Plots Showdown Between Flat-Panel TVs – CIO Tech Informer – News – CIO — This story appears to be part of a promotional effort by Samsung. Look for a lot of chit-chat regarding all this. Seems like a promotion push to get people to buy Christmas panels or something. I’m keeping an eye on it.
Samsung Electronics wants to see TVs made using liquid crystal display (LCD) panels compete more closely against those based on plasma display panel (PDP) screens, a company executive said Monday.
PDP and LCD TVs occupy different segments of the flat-panel television market, with PDPs generally used for larger screens, or those that measure more than 40 inches across the diagonal. However, Samsung hopes that a new factory set to start production late next year will permit volume production of LCD TVs with screens that measure 50 inches or more across the diagonal.
“If they lose the final battlefield at 50 inches, I think the future is very cloudy for PDPs,” said Jun Souk, executive vice president of Samsung’s LCD research and development center, speaking at a conference in Singapore. “It’s a big problem.”
I am not buying a HDTV until I can purchase a 1080p set (35″ or larger) for a reasonable price. Frankly, I don’t care what technology they are using.
I have a 135″ 720p screen in my basement, it is an Infocus 5000 LCD projector. It cost $1000. It makes all of my friends with $3000 42″ LCDs very jealous.
Plasma is a dead technology and LCD will soon follow once the OLED and FED TVs start coming.
For those out of the know:
Organic Light Emitting Diode – Like your cheap wrist watch
Field Emission Display – Like a Plasma or LCD version of the good ol’ CRT. Very high contrast, amazing colors, no pixel delay.
Saw both Samsung’s 42″ in Plasma and LCD, side by side, out our local Best Buy. Both the same price too, 2099$ Cnd.
Same price, same specs, same input signal, etc.
Now the world’s finest expert IMVHPOV, My Wife, likes the plasma better.
2K is starting to be reasonable in price, but I’m waiting for the after Xmas specials, like Jan or Feb 07. I want to pay 1500$, no more, for these antiques.
#2, there are problems with projects, especially LCD. DLP at least doesn’t lose colors over time.
Cost of the replacement light bulb, can be up to 1/3 of the purchase cost. Most last only 2,000 hours. Assuming cool-down periods.
So having it on all day, say 8 hours non-stop, you just lost X% more.
We use projectors for computer training, so 3-5 day sprint of at least 7 hours a day. No way the bulbs lasted as long as mentioned by the manufacturer. We get more like 1,000 hours out of a 2,000 bulb.
IOW, projectors are great, shop for bulb replacement cost instead of pure power, 350$ later you’ll regret it.
Plasma is a dead technology and LCD will soon follow once the OLED and FED TVs start coming
Don’t hold your hand on your ass. These technologies are years away.
Look at this! Agreeing with gc.
Interesting to see the break-point rising though. I would have guessed LCD to be holding at cheaper <36″.
I imagine price will keep me with DLP’s through the next uptick…at which point I’ll probably upgrade to 1080p. There ain’t squat in 1080p telecasts available, anyway, right now.
Check out the quality of what Patrick/Robert use on their show — a 1080p DLP from Samsung. Snazzy enough when you have a matching signal.
Oh yeah — Samsung’s PR department is working overtime tracking up to the holidaze. They had a release, this morning, that said cell phones would be replacing desktop/laptop computers for most uses — real soon now.
hopefully this raises my street cred for purchasing the Digimax L85. By the way, does anyone know how the pricing of laser displays will compare to LCDs?
We’ll get a big screen TV only after our Trinitron dies, which might take awhile. Cable will be supporting “normal” TV for some time…
Its a change over in tech.
They are trying to dump the Old, 2-3 old versions for the current, and future versions.
It works, and will force the others to drop prices also, and when the 1080p’ hit the market, with better pictures, everyone will kick themselves.
This thread is like a time machine of bad advice.
I’ve had a 1080p LCD for months that beats the pants off of any projector listed. The good ‘ol 100″ screen coments are funny, because anyone with a clue knows how diluted the picture gets at that size.
The future is LCD. The end.