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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!?
Date: 11 Apr 2015 19:30:45 GMT
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On 2015-04-11, John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 4/10/15   PDT 9:11 PM, Your Name wrote:
>>>
>>> And I will stick with my plasma, thanks! I'd love an OLED UHD, but can't
>>> justify dumping the plasma.
>>
>> Ewww, yuck!! Plasma is ancient obsolete technology.  ;-)
>> I don't think anyone even makes Plasma TV sets any longer (shops have
>> certainly been dumping them at very cheap prices). LED is the preferred
>> TV type these days.
>
> So is Wendy's or MacDonald's over burgers at a gourmet restaurant.
>
> Plasma may be older technology than OLED or even LED, but it is superior 
> to LCDs by a country mile. It was killed by consumer perception that 
> they were power hogs, as the first iterations were.

Indeed. The plasma picture quality in my 2010 television is miles ahead
of even the very latest crap LED panels they are peddling at the store
today.

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