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If You're Streaming Netflix, Picture Quality Isn't Your Primary Criterion
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It's almost a Beta-vs.-VHS thing that with reports that Panasonic is closing its plasma TV operations in favor of LCD and OLED sets, the entire plasma category is likely to be gone in a few years. Plasma has some major advantages over LCD, namely better contrast and black levels, less blockiness and artifacting with motion, and no jaggies. But they're expensive, they tend to be thicker and heavier, and they use more electricity. People want those thin and light sets, and LCDs are cheaper, too. So, just like Beta was a better technology except in the areas people really wanted (price, availability, recording length), Plasmas may be better than LCDs (not OLED, though -- amazing pictures, just way too expensive), but it's an LCD world. (BBC)
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