By The HT Guys • Nov 15 2013, 9:08am As the years come and go, one thing remains the same, Black Friday has some killer good deals for the home theater enthusiast.
In 2008 the cheapest Blu-ray player was $128 and a 50-inch 720p plasma was going for $900.
In 2009 the Blu-ray player price dropped to $78 and you could get a 50-inch 1080p plasma with a Blu-ray player for $1000.
In 2013, it seems like you can get all of that, and more, for less than $1000.
By Pete Putman • Oct 18 2013, 8:29pm Panasonic's giving up on plasma displays; Mitsubishi's giving up on projectors.
Who will be the next to throw in the towel?
By The HT Guys • May 24 2013, 6:03am We have been talking about the demise of plasma for at least three years.
But with each passing year manufacturers come out with plasma TVs that are simply the best TVs on the market.
In a CNET article titled Best HDTVs Overall, the top 5 TVs were plasma, and that doesn�t even include the forthcoming Panasonic ZT60 which won best of show at CES.
In the following paragraphs we�ll try to compare and contrast the plasma and LED LCDs and see if there is a real reason why LEDs are putting plasma out of business.
By Ken Werner • Apr 18 2013, 10:28pm Some Asian news organizations published stories earlier this year that Panasonic was leaving the plasma TV business, leaving the plasma panel business, getting out of the TV business entirely, or just getting out of the panel business and buying panels from outside to put into its TV sets.
By The HT Guys • Jan 11 2013, 6:54am Another CES has come and gone.
At the risk of being permanently banned, we've brought back everything we saw and did in Vegas to share it with everyone who couldn't be there.
As with every CES, we saw some amazing things and some not so impressive ones as well.
Big themes from this year were: 3D is waning, 4K (UltraHD) is emerging, and Plasma may be on the verge of a comeback.
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