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50 inch Plasma TVs
_Stryker writes "Pioneer has a new
50 inch
TV that would look great hanging on my wall. Did I
mention that it is only 4 inches thick! Imagine playing
(insert favorite game here) on this bad boy! "
Ya know, I predict that in the future, we'll need fewer
posters.
I can't wait until these things become affordable.
They are much cooler than my current 12 inch wonder.
What's it going to take for these things to become affordable to real people?
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From what I've heard, the amount of heat generated by such a large plasma device would be enough to char the wall it was hanging on or enough to bake cookies...
mmmm cookies...
For crying out loud, the thing ways 95 pounds. What were you planning to hang it with? You'd have to almost literally bolt the thing down. This, of course, assumes the heat of a plasma monitor hanging on the wall didn't burn the house down.
Nonetheless, it's a cool idea. I just wish they wouldn't give people crazy ideas like hanging it on a wall. But hey, when that monitor drops to a reasonable price, I'll be first in line to buy one.
1024x768?
Faugh.
I get 1280x1024 on my 19" Sony, and I could probably go up to 1600x1200 if my video card could handle it.
I must admit a lust for Sony's new flat screen TV, which has a stunning picture, but it's $ 1,900, not $ 25,000.
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So how much will it, or do we expect it to cost?
We recently bought a a flat panel display
at work, and it's been a major pain in the
ass. The technology has some pretty severe
handicaps. Like the fact that you can't tip
them more than a few degrees off vertical,
or you'll blow the display (even when off).
And unlike most displays made in the past
10 or so years, they will burn in, so don't
leave them hooked up to a windows machine
overnight, because when the screensaver bsod's,
you're going to be reading that debugger
info for weeks to come.
And this one costs $25,000! There are already
several companies that make 50 inch flat panels,
and they're all orders of magnitude cheaper.
Maybe for your 25,000 smackers you can acutally
tip this one on its side for a couple of seconds.
They don't mention that on the website.
I think large panel LCD displays are more likely
to be the future of flat panel displays, not
plasma. IMHO, that is.
Still, it is pretty cool looking, once you've
hung its 100 pounds on the wall with
a dozen togglebolts, and the drywall holds.
-Lungo
Sure, a flat-panel 50 inch screen is nice, they say its HD upgradable, but for $25k I'd expect an HD upgradable to be able to actually do HD resolution. 1280x768 isn't.
:)
Doesn't mean I won't accept it if someone was to give me one.
I think it had the ability to be used as a computer monitor. I also thought the different display modes for letterbox movies and the ability to show two channels side by side were interesting.
the good ground has been paved over by suicidal maniacs
hey, well...you got to admit it's getting better, getting better all the time.
Now lets go watch Flipper with out multi-ethnic friends in our stupid looking house.
That's because real people buy these horrid steeltraps called cars. And what's this about useless jewelry and aweful huge houses with grass? People should set their priorities straight.
according to the sales pitch, it allows you to
view "the internet". Now thats a big TV. what will modern science come up with next. fabulous!
I doubt that the flat display would generate anymore heat than a crt. The density of the plasma is so low that only electrons notice the temps.
Don't forget you won't exactly be sitting inches in front of it (for long anyway :)
DVD's aren't exactly high resolution, but they look fabulous on my 35" Toshiba.
James
1024x768... or even 1280x768... both, though pretty cool on monitors of 21" or less, would probably fail to look great on a 50" screen... :-)
I would want more window space! *but*.. this is a great leap forward... that thing is THIN!
I have some experience with these, and I do not consider them watchable. The principle reason is that the plasma cells do not respond fast enough to provide 24-bit color depth. The ones I've seen at the Consumer Electronica Show and at the dealerships appear to be limited to 16-bit. Also, the factory settings are pushed way beyond reasonable performance. Wonderful if you enjoy dither patterns and mach banding.
They're cheap, but HUGE. I guarantee that a 50" CRT is _not_ going to be 4 inches deep.
Maybe four or five for around the house. One for the dog, too. And one for me. And still have change, better resolution, and a bigger screen.
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What is the resolution for HDTV anyways? I'm glad to finally see HDTV ready stuff hitting the market. Now if they'd only start broadcasting...
P.S. My friend had a projection screen TV mounted on his ceiling, projecting onto a 12' diagonal movie screen that took up one whole wall of his bedroom. Playing STAR RAIDERS on that was Awesome!
Well, frankly, at 25,000 smackers, it's only something to drool over. And if it's not worth "drooling" over, it's not worth $25000. Just think of the SGI/Beowolf/Mahogany veneer computer that could be had for such a price...
Frankly, I find the television adverts for such things are a bit ludicrous, as I doubt there are very many "hip" 18-25 year olds with enough money to buy a $7K HDTV, much less a $25K medium-definition flatscreen.
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Oh. $15K is a lot more resonable. But I had my heart set on a widescreen to watch "Flipper."
You guys aren't going to be sitting right up against one of these things either. (Well, I don't know, maybe you are). I think you're meant to sit back from these a few feet (like TV-watching distance), which makes this resolution perfect (the latter even more so, since it takes advantage of the wide aspect ratio).
Posted by shindogu:
It's not going to work in europe...
everything is PAL, and the thing can only be hooked up to something NTSC...
I'll be sticking to the beamer..
It's all relative to me.
What about people who buy $50k cars only to total them a few years later. And considering the majority of Americans spend more time in front of a TV than in their car, you might consider it a bargain.
Digital TV resolution is approximately 1000 lines.
Sony has a 50 inch diagonal lcd for $6000... it only does 1024x768... but for that price difference....
600 Watts, about the same as a CRT of the same size actually. The 600 Watts has to dissapate over a smaller surface area of course and isn't really that much (think 6 light bulbs).
The first poster is correct, it generates about the same heat. I never worked on one but it was often displayed at RCA when I worked there. The 6 fans are probably there to keep it cool (duh) which means it needs to operate at a lower temerature than a CRT.
They use about half a kW, apparently. Probably not enough to cook the wall but definitely enough to keep the room toasty. I remember hearing that ther *were* some issues about power consumption and actually being able to sell these things to consumers, but maybe they got around that.
I saw the Sony Flat Screen Tv last weekend and it was pretty impressive. Although it's $17000NZD. 1st division Lotto would be good or a bonus!
Anyway Xerox has already developed at Flat screen capable of 300dpi. Now this is cool.
XRCE: Flat Panel Display Interface
When shit hits the fan get some of these https://youtu.be/pY-GncsZ-UE
Gee, what a ridiculous price - for 25 large, you can buy TWO of the new killer Proxima DLP projectors at full list price and still have 5 kilobucks left for a new computer and DVD. Server two rooms SIMULTANEOUSLY, with connections for NTSC, S-Video, and up to 12x10 PC resolution!
I think I'd go for this option, especially since the DLP projectors are bright enough to be easily visible in normal room lighting!
Check out www.ti.com/dlp for cool info on the technology...
Having played with 2 large plasma screens at CES in Jan. I can vouch that they really do run HOT.
And the heat radiates evenly out from the front of the screen. I don't understand why anyone would buy something that radiates that much heat.
The effect at 5 feet general room warmth. At 2 feet it was like having a bunch of 60 watt bulbs lined up in front of your body. The Hitachi model definitely kept its side of the room warm.