Is plasma dead?

[Joe Schmoe]

The 34" seems large enough to be immersive and movielike with 16:9 material. Other aspect ratios make it seem a bit small, though (especially ultra-widescreen.) I hate "stretch" mode and will not use it.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

Where the heck do you have your HT set up that affords you only the 5feet distance?

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Where the heck do you have your HT set up that affords you only the 5feet distance?

In a 10' square bedroom with the back wall covered in bookshelves (which require an access aisle.) If I bought a flat screen, I could increase the distance by the difference in thickness between it and my CRT, but that is all.
(Of course, a 42" at 74" has exactly the same viewing angle as a 34" at 60", so buying one and moving it back 14" would not gain me anything.)

 

[croseiv]

Not yet....

Greetings!

This is my first post here after lurking for several years. Boy I struggled with this issue for several months before deciding to buy my first flat panel monitor. I ended up going with plasma for a couple of reasons. First was price. I found a good 50” Samsung (HP-T5054). It is 720 p, but I couldn’t tell a difference at all between any of them really (1080p vs 720 p) other then image brightness/contrast really. Second was picture quality. The model I chose actually had one of the best pictures of them all as compared. Maybe it was the way they set it up, but boy what a picture it has compared to my old 32” CRT. I feel that the technology changes so darned much that I just would pick what I liked at a price that was right. Anything will be obsolete in a year…. That’s what I did. I should add that I am the kind of guy that will buy last year's model at close out. Trying to keep up with the latest technology is nearly impossible.

 

[Duffinator]

I still feel like my 50" is way to small.

Bigger is better.