Super Bowl 4K fail

[BoFox]

There is such a thing as a sweet spot in any market.  Below it lies the cheap and nasty, above it lies extravagant waste.  I think you will find my choices align very closely with the sweet spot in each case.  Your choices most align with the "extravagant and flagrant waste of money/conspicious consumption" spot.

GStan- a man on the threshold of a realization that will shatter the world as he knows it.....


Here you go GStan, going to guide you to that truth.

YOUR "sweet spot" is my "cheap and nasty". MY "sweet spot" is Ben's "cheap and nasty". BEN'S "sweet spot" is a guy richer than Bens "cheap and nasty".

It's all a matter of perspective, with no right or wrong, just everyone adjusting there purchases to their needs and desires in line with their income or assets.

You can leave the temple if you understand this grasshopper, you will have learned.

LOL, funny. 

For somebody who can afford 2x GTX 970's (or spending like $800 on video cards every node shrink), plasma is (was) the sweet spot in between a LCD and a 4K OLED that costs nearly as much as a Harley Davidson. 

$100/yr in extra electricity costs still pales in comparison to $800 every 2 years on GPUs that lose much more than 50% value at the end of the upgrade cycle.  The display is as important as the GPU, at the very least!

One of my friends bought a 42" plasma to go with his original Xbox console.  He was so proud of it, leaving it on all day everyday just to show off to all of his friends and mainly to make himself feel good with something on ESPN every time he walked by.  He didn't realize how much power it ate, until some months later on when the electricity bills really started to not make sense at all.  Back then, it wasn't uncommon for bigger tv's to consume 300W or so, but nope, it was much more than that.  As soon as he figured it out, he quickly sold the TV off on Craigslist at a much more than 50% loss and bought an LCD TV that just came out.  This, I didn't get.  Sometimes money is treated in weird ways.. 

While that early-gen plasma sucked with power consumption, black level, and had this refresh rate "flicker" that was annoying at times, his new LCD just looked worse in nearly every aspect.  Nothing beat the quality of CRT tech for years until plasma tech finally got to the level of Pioneer Kuro 60" with excellent black levels while sporting respectable power consumption levels for its size (~400W).  High-end 1080p plasma tech suffered largely in part to the post-2008 recession, and although plasma tech continued to outdistance LCD tech in terms of IQ while cutting down on power consumption (however with reduced max brightness that only further tainted its notoriety as a dark screen unsuitable for viewing in daylight), plasma was pretty much killed off by the time OLED and 4K LCD tech emerged. 

R.I.P. Plasma 2014