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I saw a big 60+ inch Panasonic plasma set in Atlanta last weekend. The owner, an old friend, has all the latest goodies for his viewing pleasures. I was not expecting what I saw. He turned it on, and the picture was incredibly sharp allover the screen. He started the blu-ray disc, and it was an old MGM Technicolor feature. I could see the grain in the film on that screen if I got closer! We took the same disc and took it downstairs and played it on another blu-ray with a Sony Trinitron from the mid 1990's. It looked about as good as my Sony's do, but no grain.
I've stopped bad-mouthing digital.
I do bad mouth the lack of quality I'm hearing about here. You pay that kind of money for something, it should last. Both of my early '90's Sony's are still going with one minor repair on one, and a replacement kine on the other after non-stop 18 hours a day running all those years... It looks great again. I think that new sets should be built better.
I wonder if there is something even better (read expensive) coming down the pipe as I speak? Something that will render these Plasmas, and LCD's obsolete in 5-10 years?
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