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Plasma TVs for Video Games?
moonboy asks: "As plasma televisions continue to come down in price (Gateway even has a 42" available for $2999) I'm considering purchasing one. Has anyone here had any experience with these and particularly playing games on them? I'm thinking about both console and PC games however, I'm concerned about refresh and resolution. How do they compare?"
Okay, if a score box will burn in, then how can television networks get away with superimposing their logo on every freaking second of television on their station? I'd be quite likely to have one television station on longer than one game screen (cinematics between levels would erase the score box).
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He has the right idea. For the same $, you get a DTS projector. Effectivly arbitrary screen size (your 'pad' doesn't need a 40' projection), multi input, etc etc.
He even had the two tier couch thing going on for movie nights.
I saw him type on an 80x24 screen (at 8' x 5'), play nethack, the origional Zelda, and Gran Turismo. Anything you wanted.
About the only 'downside' is that you must have a decent receiver for your audio (and realistically, some of your video) switching, since your projector won't have any sound capability.
When the time comes for me to upgrade my 36", that's the route I'll go.
Zapman
I'm concerned about refresh and resolution. How do they compare?
I would be much more concerned with burn-in than with any refresh rate. We recently got 5 Panasonic plasmas here at work. They are used to show mostly flash animations and the occasional PowerPoint show. Static images can burn-in within hours. We have to take great care to make sure there is never anything left on screen that can cause burn-in. The worst case I have seen is an IE error message, left on overnight. In the morning, we could actually read the text with the monitor turned off. I would be afraid to run a video game, which has static images like score overlays that never go away.
There is a "white wash" feature, which helps remove the burnt-in image, but it is never totally gone. Often, I will pause a game and leave it for an hour or more. Doing so on a plasma would have disastrous effects.
Aside from the burn-in, I have noticed a reduction in brightness, and this is only since last summer. Not a very good lifetime for a product which cost $20,000 CDN last summer.
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