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“I see. Does that mean that CRTs, with their higher power consumption and higher running temperatures are "less reliable" than LCDs as well?
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Certainly so - statistically LCD sets are considerably more reliable than CRT's were.
However, the running temperatures of CRT sets weren't as high as early Plasma sets.
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You yourself have commented in the past about the fact that Samsung plasma TVs don't have the same capacitor plague problems that beset their LCD sets of 5 or 6 years ago.
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Presumably they fitted better capacitors in the Plasma's?.
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LCD panels, especially on the newer, thinner sets are beset with tab problems in particular. To the point where I wouldn't have one unless it was cheap -- it just isn't worth investing a lot of money in a technology that routinely expires after three or four years (regardless of manufacturer).
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It happens in a small number of cases, just as CRT faults happened on CRT sets.
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Why do I get the impression that this wouldn't be a problem for you if Sony were making plasma TVs? The fact is that three of the four most prominent manufacturers of TVs make plasmas.
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What 'problem'? - I simply posted the facts. HD Ready Plasma sets are crap on HD
The Sony HD Ready Plasma's were just as crap on HD as everyone else's - and of course they dropped Plasma long before Full HD ones became possible.
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Conversely, SD picture quality on many of the LCD sets (and I include Sony in this; their newer TVs have sunk like a stone in this area and I wouldn't have one as a result) is borderline unwatchable -- a problem that typically does not afflict the plasma sets. Horses for courses.”
I don't know where you have been looking?, Sony LCD sets (and many others) look pretty damn good on SD programming, and I've not noticed any deterioration on the newer sets (and I installed two this morning).
If a Plasma is as good as an LCD on HD, then it's also going to suffer from poorer SD pictures, for
EXACTLY the same reason. HD Ready Plasma's seem better on SD simply because they have far less sharpness to their picture (they blur the edges of the artefacts together, making them less visible), and that's why they are crap on HD.