I guess the Plasma is Dead thread jumped the gun a bit soon. With that said, and from what we know Pioneer has already developed (9mm thin plasma's), I don't think Plasma will be taken out of the picture just that quickly. Should be interesting what the next Kuro line will bring to the table, and if they will market it in the same way they've done the current line of Kuro's. I for one would like to see a toned down price tag, but I doubt that will come.