Hitachi To Announce New Plasma/LCD TVs

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.i4u.com/article1880.html' target='_blank'>http://www.i4u.com/article1880.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Hitachi the leader in Plasma TV sales in 2003 announces to introduce five new Plasma TV models this autumn. Hitachi flat-panel TVs the receiver in a separate box. In the high-end models, the receiver will feature a hard-drive based DVD recorder. Hitachi plans to release three plasma screens with sizes between 32 and 42 inches as well as two LCD screens."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/hitachiplasma.jpg" /><br /><br />I wonder what the pricing on the plasma models is going to be like since LCD TVs appear to be making a big splash and generally have the better picture quality. Has anyone invested in plasma screens?

[BuzzLightyear]

Not sure about the US but LCD's are still very much more expensive over here in the UK. I wonder if we ever will have parity in the pricing between plasma and lcd ?

Oh and I have a Panasonic PWD6 plasma and I'm enjoying the Olympics on it as I type.

Buzz

[Felix Torres]

Not sure about the US but LCD's are still very much more expensive over here in the UK. I wonder if we ever will have parity in the pricing between plasma and lcd ?

Oh and I have a Panasonic PWD6 plasma and I'm enjoying the Olympics on it as I type.

Buzz

I wrote off plasma displays outright as a candidate technology for my (upcoming) HDTV buy so I'm not 100% up-to-date on their pricing, but the last I looked the plasmas were more expensive than comparable size-and-resolution LCD displays. Partly because most plasma displays are native EDTV rather than native-HDTV. In fact, I don't think I've seen more than a couple plasmas that are native 720p, while most LCDs are native 720p.

With the melange of broadcast-formats on this side of the pond high native-resolution is a bit more critical here. The recent introduction of native 1080p LCDs is probably a sign of where that technology is going to end up, I think. Ideally, one would want native 2160p, but that is likely a ways off; probably next decade... :)

[BuzzLightyear]

Oooo don't start the HDTV thing :D - we have got to wait till at least 2005/06 before we might just get a sniff of a single HDTV channel.

Buzz

[Felix Torres]

Oooo don't start the HDTV thing :D - we have got to wait till at least 2005/06 before we might just get a sniff of a single HDTV channel.

Buzz

Oooh, sorry...
And here I thought *our* bureaucracy was slow...
Would've thought at least Star would be offering *some* HD content...
That's one reason Murdoch bought DirectTV round these parts...