Tuesday, January 30, 2007

1080p Plasmas Hitting the Market

While nearly every LCD maker offers an impressive lineup of 1080p displays, plasma enthusiasts haven't many options when it comes to screen resolution. That's beginning to change and CNET profiles four 1080p plasmas now on the market, two each from Panasonic and Pioneer.

Is 1080p worth the extra money? If you plan to have the TV for 20 years, then probably so. But I'll let you in on a little secret: at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Panasonic had a display set up where you could compare the same image on a 768p and a 1080p plasma side-by-side. The difference was negligible at best. Even one of the Panasonic engineers there told me that he could really only see a significant improvement via 1080p on just one of the images they were showing.

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