After the heartbreak of losing Pioneer's excellent Kuro line, Panasonic's plasma displays were the last bastion of hope for plasma TV enthusiasts, but now even they are going extinct. Panasonic today confirmed a Reuters report from earlier this month that it is exiting the plasma TV market with almost immediate effect — production of new units will end in December and all related operations will be wrapped by March next year. Two of Panasonic's three factories have already stopped building new units and the third will join them in about a month's time. The Verge reported this past April that the company had ceased all future plasma display development.
Panasonic made a strong effort to push its plasma TVs this year — coming to CES in January with a fully refreshed home theater lineup — however the economics of plasma display production just haven't worked out for the company. Though consumer demand is apparently still firm, Panasonic says that "due to rapid, drastic changes in the business environment" and price pressure from more affordable LCD TVs, the unhappy decision had to be made. That leaves HD enthusiasts with a few months to save up the money to buy a ZT60, the last in a proud line of beautiful TVs.
As for the future, a Panasonic Display vice president told The Verge in April that plasma research and development efforts would likely be diverted to OLED. The company sees televisions using the technology as "one of the key future products," and it is working to insure that it can make affordable OLED TVs that still leave room for profit before putting any up for sale. If and when that day comes, sticklers for the picture quality offered by plasmas should be more than happy with OLEDs.
Plasma is better than LCD/LED if their spec is the same, given that Plasma projecting light directly to your eye balls and give a way better colors and contrast while LCD/LED projecting light horizontally, however the downfall of it is that the projection will slowly die over time with broken pixels and also image burn if u didn't take care of it. Plasma is also famous for sucking up a lot of energy and not eco friendly compare to LCD/LED.
That's what I learned, correct me if i'm wrong.
Speaking of which, when I bought my LED 3 days ago, I was standing infront of a panasonic Plasma and another LCD next to it, both projecting the same video, but plasma color is indeed giving better vibrant and depth to the footage, could be my hallucination tho
This post has been edited by TheEvilMan: Nov 2 2013, 10:45 AM
Plasma is better than LCD/LED if their spec is the same, given that Plasma projecting light directly to your eye balls and give a way better colors and contrast while LCD/LED projecting light horizontally, however the downfall of it is that the projection will slowly die over time with broken pixels and also image burn if u didn't take care of it. Plasma is also famous for sucking up a lot of energy and not eco friendly compare to LCD/LED.
That's what I learned, correct me if i'm wrong.
Speaking of which, when I bought my LED 3 days ago, I was standing infront of a panasonic Plasma and another LCD next to it, both projecting the same video, but plasma color is indeed giving better vibrant and depth to the footage, could be my hallucination tho
indeed it's better.. viewing big screen 70-80 LCD viewing 1080p always give me low quality images but on plasma looks damn good.
Nov 2 2013, 12:36 AM, updated 13y ago
Panasonic concedes plasma TV defeat, ends production 
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