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i was just at an electronics store chatting with a sales man on a slow day, no other customers.
i was looking at the new lower priced plasmas they had a 42" panasonic for $3999 i think it looked great. he said the good thing about plasma was the thicknessand relative low cost but you must worry about burn ins and the picture gets worse over time. i then asked about the 50 and 60" sony and zenith LCD. agian he said the thiness, small front frameand no worry about burnins however he mentioned you could have dead or always on pixels and some fast moving things may leave trails, the picture changes slightly depending on angle and it gets dimmer over time and its not best at non native resolutions a little blurry,
then he showed me what he thought was the best buy and by far the cheapest a dlp monitor, basically a digital projector, 13-18 inches deep so bigger then the others, great pic from all angles you buy a new bulb for $200 evrery 3-4 years so picture stays bright and your investment stays goodno burn in no dead or always on pixels much cheaper, a 50 samsung well under $4000. he then mentioned hdtv spec of 720 progresive which he says is superior to 480interlace and 1080i. and 1280i and said most plasma in this range will not have all these choices i.e. gateways. i think he said but am not sure that unlike lcd's the dlp treats the resolutions independant of some native resolution thereby giving better overall results then plasma and lcds when viewed at a non native resolution. of course i was intrigued, and istantly had thoughts of a 23" wide scrrn computer monitor using this technology just 13" think with a choice of all resolutions being clear, no dead pixels or burn in crt type angles andresponse time.
but now i think he was just trying to get a sale. anyone hear with the inside scoop on dlp and whether it would make a good computer monitor
i was just at an electronics store chatting with a sales man on a slow day, no other customers.
i was looking at the new lower priced plasmas they had a 42" panasonic for $3999 i think it looked great. he said the good thing about plasma was the thicknessand relative low cost but you must worry about burn ins and the picture gets worse over time. i then asked about the 50 and 60" sony and zenith LCD. agian he said the thiness, small front frameand no worry about burnins however he mentioned you could have dead or always on pixels and some fast moving things may leave trails, the picture changes slightly depending on angle and it gets dimmer over time and its not best at non native resolutions a little blurry,
then he showed me what he thought was the best buy and by far the cheapest a dlp monitor, basically a digital projector, 13-18 inches deep so bigger then the others, great pic from all angles you buy a new bulb for $200 evrery 3-4 years so picture stays bright and your investment stays goodno burn in no dead or always on pixels much cheaper, a 50 samsung well under $4000. he then mentioned hdtv spec of 720 progresive which he says is superior to 480interlace and 1080i. and 1280i and said most plasma in this range will not have all these choices i.e. gateways. i think he said but am not sure that unlike lcd's the dlp treats the resolutions independant of some native resolution thereby giving better overall results then plasma and lcds when viewed at a non native resolution. of course i was intrigued, and istantly had thoughts of a 23" wide scrrn computer monitor using this technology just 13" think with a choice of all resolutions being clear, no dead pixels or burn in crt type angles andresponse time.
but now i think he was just trying to get a sale. anyone hear with the inside scoop on dlp and whether it would make a good computer monitor