วันศุกร์ที่ 26 เมษายน พ.ศ. 2556
The existence of Plasma TV is
undeniable. Panasonic, as one of electronic monster companies revealed if it is
not suspending plasma development. The statement came from Panasonic spokesman
pertaining to the latest rumor if the big company would no longer be developing
plasma. Though Panasonic has confirmed that the rumor was not true, the rumor
itself has tickled some interesting questions to come up since the plasma
television development and production do have a time when they come to an end. The
same thing would happen too to the LCD’s development and production.
The timing of both LCD and plasma is
quite crucial, but at least, the more suitable replacement for plasma TV may
cause an awful effect on picture quality across the board. Then how does the future
hold for flat-panel TVs?
Actually, if the plasma TV production
and development is stopped without any decent replacement, it would cause a bad
thing for any picture quality fan, somehow on technology preference. For
example when the time we lost the Pioneer Kuro in the year of 2009, and as good
as the quality of TVs production has become, still in some ways we haven’t seen
an equivalent quality with Kuro’s picture quality. This thing makes us to
figure out, even if the upcoming Panasonic TC-PZT60 shows a better performance
than the Kuro, it came after four years since the Kuro disappeared, -- an
eternity of technology world.
In the years since the Kuro’s demise,
TVs have gotten cheaper and far more energy-efficient of which is also thinner
but comes with tons of sophisticated features.
So, another question that comes to
the surface is, will we face a similar performance deficit if Panasonic really
pushes the envelope of picture quality? It’s probably not.
The first reason and foremost is that
there’s Samsung. In the story of electronic productions, there have been some
companies that were so intent and capable of dominating as well as Samsung. The
company has brought plasma TVs to be developed, though theirs are not as good
as Panasonic’s best, but Samsung’s plasmas have still been very good in quality.
After all, LG is still barely making plasmas.
The next reason is that there’s OLED
(Organic Light-Emitting Diode) TV technology. OLED guarantees greater performance
than the plasma TV with its greater energy efficiency and thinness. The OLED is
uberexpensive, since technology comes down in price as it matures. One of
plasma TVs developer as well as Panasonic has said if it is diverting
engineering talent to OLED. For this declaration, there’s still another
question arises about how soon will we get it?
The only answer is just we are
standing in the middle of a transition between plasma TVs and OLED. We can only
assume if what we have now is the best (plasma TV) until the OLED really comes
to coloring the electronic market.
