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Plasma has 18 months left before its mandated into
oblivion, they manufacturers have got no hope in reducing
the power consumption down to even current LCD levels,
which are about to drop in late 2008/9 for LCD to around
130watts, if not lower, all those billions invested by
short sighted companies in new and current plants
producing PLASMA will be going down the drainpipe

How do you know about plasma being phased out?? I’d like to know where you read that before buying an HDTV. Thanks!!

First plasmas because of their energy consumption.
Governments are looking hard at giving those products an energy efficient ratings labels due to greenhouse gase emissions becoming a pressing political issue.
Then LCD’s further down the track as OLED’s are being fine tuned for better quality/price and energy consumption and Portability !!  http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?s=c6cdb487e9d7d05ebd8b209f85cfb494&t=960314
Cheers

Mike lets use a bit of logic here, first off PLASMA gives
a very nice picture, but due to brightness problems
the image lacks punch compared to LCD, both being
adjusted correctly, I know this to be true as I have
researched friends who have both types, the big killer
for plasma is not only the higher power usage, but the
HEAT radiation into the room, which means together
with other appliances and also the body heat of people,
results in the airconditioner working harder, and that means it uses more power over a longer period of time, see where I am coming from Mike! with new government regulations coming in and power companies charging more, PLASMA in the near future 5/6 years timeframe has no where to go but out of the picture, thats not
wishfull thinking, thats a coming FACT, if you read
the right articles Mike, you should know that all PLASMA
manufactures from Panasonic, pioneer,ect, are about to increase their LCD range, so my advice to anyone
thinking of investing in PLASMA is think carefully,

I think that plasma can improve, just like everything else in terms of power consumption.  Doing a little checking, I found that 50 inch plasma’s draw very different power depending on brand/model.  For example the Samsung 50inch I looked up draws 520w, the Panasonic 50 was 695w, and the pioneer 50 ‘only’ 371w. I think also a big factor was these unit’s standby power modes, which had: under 1w, 1w, and 23w respectively.  For comparison, a sony 52inch LCD was 295 w on, with 0.4w on standby. A vizio 52 inch was 420w on, with 1w on standby.  Also interesting was that samsung and LG did not list power consumption for their LCD televisions.

While my research was far from exaustive, it’s clear you can’t make the blanket statement that ALL LCD’s draw less power than the same sized plasma.

What paul states is true re standby power, but when the
unit is fully on, thats where plasma’s problems begin,
if there was no real difference, then why would plasma
manufacturers be striving to reduce the power consumption
also paul conviently omitted the heat problem, read my previous email,