You're right about picture quality. When I was shopping for HDTVs back in October I was set on LCD until I actually went to the store and saw a Samsung plasma right next to its Samsung LCD sibling. There was really no comparison. The picture on the plasma was just so much better. The quality of the colors, performance in dark and bright environments, etc. And, it was a bit less expensive. My only regret about my on-the-spot switch from an LCD I had researched to a plasma I had not is that the plasma is 1024x768, so hooking up my Mac to it is pretty useless. Using xorg and forcing 1366x768 over VGA actually looks really good though.
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mroach @ Aug 15th 2007 10:54AM
You're right about picture quality. When I was shopping for HDTVs back in October I was set on LCD until I actually went to the store and saw a Samsung plasma right next to its Samsung LCD sibling. There was really no comparison. The picture on the plasma was just so much better. The quality of the colors, performance in dark and bright environments, etc. And, it was a bit less expensive. My only regret about my on-the-spot switch from an LCD I had researched to a plasma I had not is that the plasma is 1024x768, so hooking up my Mac to it is pretty useless. Using xorg and forcing 1366x768 over VGA actually looks really good though.
Example: http://linked.mroach.com/flaps_2.jpg