What do you guys think of plasma TVs? Anyone still using this technology? My brother gave me a 50 inch full HD LG after he upgraded and movies look really good. The way it displays motion is super smooth and colors and black levels are surprisingly good for a 12 year old TV.
A plasma was my main TV until a couple years ago when I got an OLED. I was quite content with it, especially for the price of basically free. I liked having all the analog inputs for the older components and game consoles I have. Plasmas are a great compromise vs. getting a CRT for "vintage" gaming.
>>109236650It's unfortunate they couldn't scale it beyond FHD as it could've bridged the gap between LCD and OLED when OLED was still expensive.
They're cool, when you have them in their element they can still produce a really nice image, but they have their drawbacks.The PWM flicker/noise is quite distracting if you use them for UIs/Vidya, on top of the input latency has been really bad on every one i've tried.If you're just going to use it as a movie screen though you could honestly do much worse.
>>109236650>Anyone still using this technology?I have a pioneer kuro from like 2009 and hope that I'll never need another TV again. They're so much more comfortable to look at than modern leds and oleds, especially in darkness.
Luddite baby duck technology. You need to move on.
>>109236650plasmas are actually good the only reason i dont use mine is because its 720p
>>109238982so how come CRT can run 4K and insane refresh rates, making games ultra-realistic, but plasma doesn't have the same effect?I remember typing on CRT we all did, we played vidya on them, i never pixel peeped, with LCD/LED it was a sad time until recently when 1440 started to come out, and even now we get screen tearing, weird rendering of the picture, things made more sense with CRTnever had plasma, know very little of them
>>109236650plasma is the closest thing you'll get to crt on a "flat" display but unless properly configured, expect latency issues between audio and picture. Also beware burn in, I honestly don't know what the situation was with plasma but I recall a LOT of people talking about burn ins during the rise of plasma televisions
>>109239109I don't know plasma tech but my assumption is component density. on a crt, cranking up that boys current can have direct impact on resolution.
i saw a few in a tech store as a kid. most were stroby shit, but they also had a fuckhuge one with zero strobing but some kind of intentional grainy noise thing, that one was impressive.
i have three tvs:a plasma for my modded wii u (with wii games as well, and some jellyfin streaming over hdmi)a crt for my modded wii (gamecube, n64, snes, nes, and my dvd plaher)a modern 4k oled for watching most things and playing modern gamesplasma is unmatched for that specific era of gaming and video can look great, especially if you can manage to find a display that hasn't dimmed too much
>>109236650I found the leading and trailing artifacts distracting. Kinda like how some people can't unsee rainbow artifacts on DLP projectors, I could not get my eyes to settle down enough for them to go away.
>>109239686The image retention issue was largely solved midway through the plasma era.
Still have one, Panasonic viera something, 42 inch, full hd. I measured wattage pulled from wall and he is using 250-300W at lowest possible brightness on eu 220v grid. In winter it works as small heater
2007 philips reporting in. She warms my room in the winter.
>>109241967based and non-consoomer pilled
