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#1 astrobuf
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??? Plasma can show truer blacks than LCD because plasma can completely turn off each individual pixel. "When light hits a plasma it turns their blacks grey" is actually true for LCD as LCD always has a back-lit source which prevents true "inky black levels" that are possible from plasma. Localized LED dimming on LCD's attempt to solve this by shutting off the backlight in darker areas of a screen so that the native resolution can get better on LCD's . This helps, but no LCD has a native contrast ratio better than the best plasmas out there.rastan
The acid test for any display is to watch a starry night scene, or perhaps a fireworks scene. I gauruntee that "NO" LCD TV will ever be able to show thse scenes with good image quality. Astrobuf
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#2 astrobuf
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I've been in Panasonic's Plasma Plants in Osaka. Panasonic most certainly has their own PDP fab's. In fact, Panasonic has made the largest investment of any display manuafacurer in Plasma. Your freind is confused by Panny's LCD strategy. Panny indeed does buy it's LCD modules from Samsung and other suppliers. Panasonic did purchase the Pioneer PDP business several years ago. The Pioneer R&D staff which produced the exceptional KURO sets and other fantastic TV's now work for Panasonic. The Pioneer fab's and R&D labs (located in Kofu Japan) are now part of the Panasonic operations. As to quality of PDP PAnny vs Samsung, I'd generally steer people to Panny. Samsung has a love-hate relationship with PDP TV's. Samsung is the worlds larges LCD maker and the Samsung parent corporation keeps starving the PDP business of needed investment in preference to crazy investments in huge LCD fabs. Astrobuf