Pioneer kills Plasma, No more Kuro. Proof Plasma is dead !

Posted Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 1:05 pm by Jason Cartwright |

Pioneer kill plasma

Widely regarded as making the best model of Plasma TV on the market, Pioneer have pulled the plug on manufacturing Plasma TVs. This of course includes the industry-leading Pioneer Kuro range, offering superior black levels. This announcement comes despite announcing a bunch of new plasma sets at this years CES only last month.

This continues a growing trend of TV manufacturers moving away from Plasma display technology in favor of LCD. Even though a number of manufacturers still have Plasma displays for sale, these are more commonly made from someone else and simply rebranded.

In the early days of large screen TVs LCD’s of large sizes were prohibitively expensive to manufacture. As the technology has evolved and volumes have increased this cost has dropped – dramatically. LCD’s even at large sizes are now down to an affordable level and with the current economic conditions, they’re set to drop even further.

Earlier this year I picked up a 52” Sony Bravia Full HD LCD for A$2,999. 2-3 years ago this set would have easily cost $6-7k.

Look for plasma TVs to die very quickly over the next 2 years.

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Due to the discontinuity of the manufacturing of plasma tvs their price as gone down also so the plasma fans can acquire an high quality plasma for a reduced price.
danfuckyass

> Look for plasma TVs to die very quickly over the next 2 years.

$10,000 says your wrong. Bet?

Panasonic, a much bigger company, has purchased the Kuro tech from Pioneer and absorbed most of their employees. Panasonic has much better economies of scale than Pioneer. Look for next generation plasmas to come out next year.

Plasmas are brighter, have higher resolution, much faster response time, no motion blur, truer colors, and real black (not darkish gray). The image quality is better and the viewing angle much larger than LCDs.

LCDs have only two advantages: no “burn in” worry because you can deflex them by alternative colors and they use less electricity. You have to take care of Plasmas for the first 100 hours of use to avoid burn-in, but other than that Plasmas are just as reliable. I'd go with plasmas over LCD any time.
comeinyou

danfuckyass i cant agree with you more, plasmas will always be here to stay u cant compare lcd to plasma and people are blind like they are to politicks , follow the leader when are people going to wake up and see the light

Pioneer kills Plasma, No more Kuro. Proof Plasma is dead !

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