I’ve already pointed out the inferiority of the Samsung 7000 series to you in this thread
here.
But let’s address some of the charges that you’ve laid at the feet of Plasmas.
Life: Let’s use the Panasonic S1s for reference which have a 100,000 hour panel life. First you need to understand that panel life doesn’t mean that the panel just simply dies when it hits its rated life span. What the rating really means is that the panel will be half as bright once it reaches its panel life rating. So if we look at the 100,000 hr rating of the S1s you will find that it would take you
11 years and
151 days of running your TV 24/7 to reach half brightness. If you run your TV only eight hours a day it would take you
34 years and
90 days to reach half brightness. Based on these numbers I would make the assertion that life span is not an issue with current PDPs.
Burn-in: Read
this article that was pointed out by jliedeka. Clearly this is not an issue, and you should become more informed before you go around handing out advice on the matter.
Glare: This is straight from a CNET review of the Samsung 7000 series: shiny screen can cause reflections in bright rooms; and from the CNET review of $4,000 55in 8500 Series (Top of the line): glossy screen reflects ambient light. So to suggest that LED LCDs are immune from glare is just plain wrong and misleading at best.
Heat: Yes, PDPs tend to run warmer than LED LCDs…so what, what’s your point? As long as all of the components in the TV were designed to run under these conditions it becomes a moot point. A/B class amplifiers run warmer than D class amplifiers, so does that that make them automatically inferior on all fronts?
Since you claim that LED LCDs are such a great value I would like you to intelligently address these two points:
1.Price to screen size ratio:
$4,000 will buy a 55in Samsung 8500 series, but that same $4,000 would buy you a 65in Panasonic V10. That’s an 18% increase in diagonal screen size and 39% increase in total viewing area for the same price.
Here is the comparison visually. So I would say that the value lays with PDPs not LED LCDs.
2.Poor of Axis viewing of LCDs:
Let’s go back to Samsung’s top of the line model for reference. The following is an excerpt from the CNET review which can be found
here.
Uniformity: The biggest weakness of LED-based LCDs comes in the arena of off-angle viewing, and the 8500 follows suit. When we moved just one couch cushion to either side, the blacks lightened considerably, becoming brighter, more washed-out, and less realistic, and taking the rest of the image quality down with them.
Even when in the sweet spot, simply hard leaning to either side caused the far edge of the screen, especially letterbox bars and other dark areas, to lighten noticeably (we were seated about 9 feet from the 55-inch model, so seating distances that are farther away will shorten the angle and lessen this issue). Blooming also became significantly more obvious from off-angle, and a bluer tinge crept into the dark areas. Dark scenes and low ambient lighting make the washout and increased blooming more obvious, but the falloff was still visible in brighter scenes and lighting. The 8500 seemed to suffer from this issue worse than other LCDs in our subjective comparison, but again that's most likely because its black levels were deeper than the others to begin with.
Can you honestly call a $4,000 dollar display that only looks great from single seating position, a great value?
Let’s get the facts straight before handing out advice and making claims about LED LCDs awesomeness.
