Can You Expect A Plasma Tv Sale In Your Neighborhood Soon?
When you talk about flat widescreen television sets, two technologies immediately come to mind - plasma and LCD. These TVs give richer color and crisper resolutions even with large displays. Watching battle scenes, landscapes, and cityscapes are best seen in full panoramic view. For some time, buyers were constantly caught in a bind as to what flatscreen to purchase - until now.
After slowly eating up plasma TV market shares in recent years, LCD finally overtook it in the first quarter of 2009. Liquid crystal display sales grew by 137% quarter on quarter and close to 500% year on year. In comparison, plasma volume in the 55-inch and above category was flat during that same period.
Plasmas beat LCDs when it comes to rendering black. The former reproduces much deeper blacks. Seeing dark grays instead of blacks somehow takes away the drama from certain movies especially those that are dominated by black; the Matrix sequel and Batman series, for example.
LCDs, on the other hand, are lighter and, by nature, have higher resolutions. Since new developments in LCD technology, most notably in Sony products, have produced much improved blacks, the main argument used by plasma loyalists is slowly fading away.
Being lighter, LCDs dominate in the small and medium sized categories. What's more, the price of LCD TV for sale has slowly been going down. Thus, in the past, liquid crystal displays ruled the small and medium sizes while plasmas dominated the very large screens.
When Pioneer threw in the towel in the plasma TV manufacturing arena in March 2008, people began speculating that the end of plasma's reign on flatscreen TV was imminent. Plasma loyalists then were quick to dismiss the speculations, claiming that plasma was untouchable in the large flat screen department. However, the latest quarter of plasma TV sale results are giving us a clearer picture.
Based on those results, it isn't difficult to imagine that store owners would want to dispose of their plasma TV sets and come up with various plasma TV sale promotions before the last of their loyalists would metamorphose into turncoats. Surely, they would rather part with them at reasonably low prices than at a loss. These are high-end products, so you really don't have too many large screen plasma buyers out there, much less in the future.
