Stephen Burgess

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• April 2, 2010, on TVs of the Rich and Famous:

  Phil, as a photographer, you might just be concerned with image quality. When it comes to flat screen digital display devices, there is only one that I would ever wish upon my family and friends for TV and movie watching purposes: Plasma. The reasons are numerous. But how about we start with the most important one: Longevity. Plasma (good ones from Panasonic and Pioneer in particular) have the highest MTBF, more or less equivalent to the older CRT sets, many of which could last as long as 20 years or more with no significant degradation. LCD and DLP cannot even begin to approach this. They suffer dead pixels within only a few years. Their lighting source, when it dies, may not be serviceable. Basically, if an LCD or DLP set dies in any way after 5 years, it becomes landfill because there is no way youýll be able to fix it. All the other reasons are technical, performance related deficiencies that impact image quality, such as: -60 Hz refresh limitation saddles you ...