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Are Plasma TVs the Next BetaMax?
Lev13than writes "An article in the Toronto Star questions whether the battle between LCD and Plasma is the next VHS vs. Beta: "LCD is now in plasma country, and this means war — a war some say plasma can't hope to win". Rationale for LCD's victory include plasma's burn-in vs. LCD's ruggedness, improved images and falling prices. While the Beta analogy isn't particularly helpful (since both technologies play the same content), the article does raise interesting points."
Sure, CRT's are cheap and great, but have you ever tried to move a large CRT? You need a crane! or 4 beefy guys from the gym.
Being a scrawny nerd with no muscle tone makes moving CRT's a problem. It's primary reason I dumped my nice 19 inch CRT monitor for an LCD.
If Plasma == BetaMax, does that mean in another year I'll only be able to watch pRon on my plasma TV?
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We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
Our coach wasn't very comfortable - especially when yelling at us for doing our laps too slowly or making us do push-ups.
Hi Tom... oh wait, thats an R and N. my bad.
I wouldn't say that CRTs are horrifyingly large. They're just horrifyingly large if you want them to be.
I wouldn't either, in general, but it depends on the depth of the space you have to put them in. I miscalculated when I had my family room remodeled. The shelf built for the TV is only 20" deep, and unless I wanted to have a 19" TV (for six people to crowd around?), that just isn't enough room for a CRT. So I had to go with something else. Given that anything shallow enough to fit was going to cost better than a grand, I figured I might as well spend some more and get something that everyone would really enjoy, so we ended up with a 50" DLP HD-TV. With a TV like that, it made sense to get a surround sound system, too. Oh, yeah, and while I was at it we really needed a small form-factor PC with DVI outputs to run Mythtv. Plus a couple TB of disk space for video storage (in the server).
That's the story I told my wife, anyway. "Sorry, honey, but I messed up that shelf and now if we want to watch TV in the family room it's going to cost us $3500. On the plus side, because of my mistake we'll end up with a nice home theater system."
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