01-11-2016, 11:49 PM
(01-11-2016, 11:19 PM)BoFox Wrote: A plasma screen or a DLP would be great for playing console games (PS4, XboxOne, WiiU, Xbox360, PS3, Wii, etc..), since the pixels have a softer appearance (and thus the aliasing won't appear to be as sharp as on LCD's). Upscaling old Wii games for example to HDMI output on the Wii U would look way better on the softer plasma/DLP display than on a merciless razor-edged pixellated LCD display. It especially applies for 720p/900p games on the latest consoles outputted onto a "1080p" screen. Furthermore, 720p TV shows (which would be the case with so many broadcast channels) simply look more fitting on a softer plasma/DLP than on a 1080p LCD, which cannot completely do away with more severe pixel interpolation.
Nearly half of all the HD channels are still broadcast in 720p:
http://hd-report.com/hd-channels/
Even more reasons we should all be buying plasma tvs instead of 4k.
With CRTs and LCDs, I get why they did it. The displays were a lot heavier to ship, and had real drawbacks.
With plasma, the displays might be heavier, but when a $1000 60" is beating the image quality of sets costing 3X that, I don't get why people didn't buy them and sustain the market.
We were all spending $1000 on totally inferior LCD/LED sets.
Maybe so the BTR Trio would not laugh at us?