Matt,
I was also planning on getting a plasma this upcoming year (probably a 42"-50" one...prob. from Panasonic). Hell, the original plan was to get something closer to Christmas THIS year.
A couple things have changed my view on this so far, the developement of SED being one of them. I am EAGER to see what Toshiba can produce. IF their first crop can show all this good stuff that is to be expected, then I will take my sweet time buying a set...however impatient I become. Also, Canon is #1 in my books for cameras - I love their stuff, their features and their quality and I hope that it translates to the SED technology as well.
Second, I really like plasmas and when I saw the specs on the Panny 65" 1080p monster that is coming out later this year, my jaw hit the floor. Then I saw the price...under 10k. You figure with the rate of price attrition that PDPs are going through and with a smaller version sure to be offer, by the end of next year, you could probably pull up a 50" 1080p PDP with HDMI inputs and the works for a very reasonable price.
Both of these have kept me from taking the plunge now...but man is it ever hard to resist the siren song of HDTV.
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James Varghese @ Sep 12th 2005 6:14PM
Matt,
I was also planning on getting a plasma this upcoming year (probably a 42"-50" one...prob. from Panasonic). Hell, the original plan was to get something closer to Christmas THIS year.
A couple things have changed my view on this so far, the developement of SED being one of them. I am EAGER to see what Toshiba can produce. IF their first crop can show all this good stuff that is to be expected, then I will take my sweet time buying a set...however impatient I become. Also, Canon is #1 in my books for cameras - I love their stuff, their features and their quality and I hope that it translates to the SED technology as well.
Second, I really like plasmas and when I saw the specs on the Panny 65" 1080p monster that is coming out later this year, my jaw hit the floor. Then I saw the price...under 10k. You figure with the rate of price attrition that PDPs are going through and with a smaller version sure to be offer, by the end of next year, you could probably pull up a 50" 1080p PDP with HDMI inputs and the works for a very reasonable price.
Both of these have kept me from taking the plunge now...but man is it ever hard to resist the siren song of HDTV.