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Turkish on 03 February 2012
Chris Hu said:
Turkish said:
Chris Hu said:
Turkish said:
Slimebeast said:
Panasonic was hot for electronic products in the 90's but since that they only been famous for their high quality plasma TV:s.

I planned to buy a Panasonic plasma TV for a while but since then LEDs have catched up and are very aweomse so most consumers including me will buy a Samsung LED.


Plasmas over LCD/LED ANYDAY, Plasmas are much much better then LED and LCD


Only if you like to waist electricty five years from now no electric company is going to make plasma TV's anymore.

Funny, I just remembered when LCD became affordable around 2005/2006 they were saying the exact same thing, Plasma is still around. Every other display technology is inferior to Plasma. The viewing angles, the colors, the contrast, the blacks, the refresh rate, the 3D is much better on Plasma.

 

The only technology that seems to rival Plasma seems to be OLED, but its only started to make an appearance and still too expensive.

Electric companies that stopped making plasma tv's outnumber the electric companies that are still making plasmas once Samsung and LG will stop making them which will be pretty soon its RIP for plasma.  Also around 2005/2006 was the last time all major electronic companies still made plasma tv's.  Since then Sony, Hitachi, Philips, Vizio, RCA, NEC, and Pioneer have stopped making plasma tv's.  Also not everyone needs or has room for a 40+inch tv for them LCD/LED and pretty soon OLED is the only choice.


For sure bro, Plasmas are doing as good as they did 5 years ago, Panasonic has more then 80 billion dollars of turnover just selling plasmas. Samsung makes plasmas, Sharp, Toshiba makes plasmas. Philips makes Plasmas, LG makes plasmas, oh yeah... did I say Hitachi still makes Plasmas too? Never heard of Vizio and RCA tho.

 

I plan on upgrading my Samsung plasma to a VT50 Panasonic plasma, probably the best tvs ever made after those Kuro's.



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NightDragon83 on 03 February 2012
badgenome said:
Probably will get banned for saying this, but oh well: 3DO is doomed.

I'm gonna double down and say that the M2 is nothing but vaporware.  And Trip Hawkins has a tiny penis.

Come at me, mods!



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You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

sethnintendo on 03 February 2012

Any major Japanese company post a profit? It seems like they all are using the yen and earthquakes are their main excuse.

I suppose Toyota might have still made a profit but I know Honda is down along with most Japanese electronic companies.



sethnintendo on 03 February 2012
badgenome said:
Probably will get banned for saying this, but oh well: 3DO is doomed.


Too bad Sony didn't take lessons from 3DO's outrageous price.



Troll_Whisperer on 03 February 2012

At least it makes Sony's loss look like small change.



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Turkish on 04 February 2012
sethnintendo said:
Any major Japanese company post a profit? It seems like they all are using the yen and earthquakes are their main excuse.

I suppose Toyota might have still made a profit but I know Honda is down along with most Japanese electronic companies.


Nikon, they even raised their profit forecast.



Slimebeast on 04 February 2012
Turkish said:
Slimebeast said:
Panasonic was hot for electronic products in the 90's but since that they only been famous for their high quality plasma TV:s.

I planned to buy a Panasonic plasma TV for a while but since then LEDs have catched up and are very aweomse so most consumers including me will buy a Samsung LED.


Plasmas over LCD/LED ANYDAY, Plasmas are much much better then LED and LCD

I have read about it many times and heard the claims that plasmas are better and in the past I agreed with them when I went to stores to compare but in the last two years I can't see the superiority of plasmas with my own eyes any more. Honestly when I visit electronics stores the Samsung expensive LEDs outshine the Panasonic VT30 series plasmas they have on display.



Aprisaiden on 04 February 2012

Its a crazy high loss but the concern for investors is the future of the Plasma market that Panasonic currently dominates, also the company plans on making a 30 bn Yen operating profit (the overall loss is largly due to writing off Sanyo and one time costs) 



Turkish on 04 February 2012
Slimebeast said:
Turkish said:
Slimebeast said:
Panasonic was hot for electronic products in the 90's but since that they only been famous for their high quality plasma TV:s.

I planned to buy a Panasonic plasma TV for a while but since then LEDs have catched up and are very aweomse so most consumers including me will buy a Samsung LED.


Plasmas over LCD/LED ANYDAY, Plasmas are much much better then LED and LCD

I have read about it many times and heard the claims that plasmas are better and in the past I agreed with them when I went to stores to compare but in the last two years I can't see the superiority of plasmas with my own eyes any more. Honestly when I visit electronics stores the Samsung expensive LEDs outshine the Panasonic VT30 series plasmas they have on display.


Thats becoz they set optimal configurations to LED tvs while Plasmas get worse treatlent so that they look bad lol, no joke. :) LEDs are a better form of LCDs, they're the same technology, the viewing angles, the contrast and blacks are still inferior to Plasmas, there is image ghosting in 3D displays while Plasmas dont have it. I agree with u tho, LEDs look amazing in stores :)



Slimebeast on 04 February 2012
Turkish said:
Slimebeast said:
Turkish said:
Slimebeast said:
Panasonic was hot for electronic products in the 90's but since that they only been famous for their high quality plasma TV:s.

I planned to buy a Panasonic plasma TV for a while but since then LEDs have catched up and are very aweomse so most consumers including me will buy a Samsung LED.


Plasmas over LCD/LED ANYDAY, Plasmas are much much better then LED and LCD

I have read about it many times and heard the claims that plasmas are better and in the past I agreed with them when I went to stores to compare but in the last two years I can't see the superiority of plasmas with my own eyes any more. Honestly when I visit electronics stores the Samsung expensive LEDs outshine the Panasonic VT30 series plasmas they have on display.


Thats becoz they set optimal configurations to LED tvs while Plasmas get worse treatlent so that they look bad lol, no joke. :) LEDs are a better form of LCDs, they're the same technology, the viewing angles, the contrast and blacks are still inferior to Plasmas, there is image ghosting in 3D displays while Plasmas dont have it. I agree with u tho, LEDs look amazing in stores :)

Damn, I suspected that they try to trick customers like that.

I might buy a Panasonic plasma after all. Especially now that they're in trouble, they need support.

It's so hard to decide.