Panel makers have just gone through an agonizing period in which making money by manufacturing large LCDs for television has been difficult or impossible. Panel prices are stabilizing now and may start increasing by April or May, but the specter of significant new Chinese production coming on line does not make for a rosy, medium-term [...]
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HDTV Expert - What Do You Do After You Realize LCD’s Glory Days are Gone? – by Ken Werner
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LCD for my garage
Ahh.. Finally a wake-up call for LCD, done by themselves to themselves, not by OLED.
It was about time for LCD to move away with its bandwagon of mass produced mediocre products that filled the homes of millions of consumers misguided by mis/ill-informed retailers for years, and to go back to the mission and vision of the image quality seed of Kuro plasmas, which hopefully would be continued by OLED at reasonable prices soon enough to take the role of plasma’s legacy when they move away graciously to pass the quality crown to OLED, while LCD looks at them from the bench ready to go to the locker room.
LCD could have stayed with small computer monitors and devices but the DTV transition was too sweet to let pass without making billions of dollars salivating while making mediocre TVs with cookie cutters, that display a different image viewed from the front than from the side, like laptops do when seen by privacy trespassers.
I am looking forward to see more quality in the market and for the public to self educate about image quality just by seeing OLED side-by-side with LCD and wonder how they could have bought that TV, and start saving for quality, and eventually move the LCD to the garage where it belongs, for casual viewing without paying attention to the artifacts of the image while fixing the lawnmower, like a radio with a moving color dial that shows 99.8 from the front and 97.1 from the side. The ironic part is that the industry found a way to add 3D to it.
Best Regards,
Rodolfo La Maestra
It was about time for LCD to move away with its bandwagon of mass produced mediocre products that filled the homes of millions of consumers misguided by mis/ill-informed retailers for years, and to go back to the mission and vision of the image quality seed of Kuro plasmas, which hopefully would be continued by OLED at reasonable prices soon enough to take the role of plasma’s legacy when they move away graciously to pass the quality crown to OLED, while LCD looks at them from the bench ready to go to the locker room.
LCD could have stayed with small computer monitors and devices but the DTV transition was too sweet to let pass without making billions of dollars salivating while making mediocre TVs with cookie cutters, that display a different image viewed from the front than from the side, like laptops do when seen by privacy trespassers.
I am looking forward to see more quality in the market and for the public to self educate about image quality just by seeing OLED side-by-side with LCD and wonder how they could have bought that TV, and start saving for quality, and eventually move the LCD to the garage where it belongs, for casual viewing without paying attention to the artifacts of the image while fixing the lawnmower, like a radio with a moving color dial that shows 99.8 from the front and 97.1 from the side. The ironic part is that the industry found a way to add 3D to it.
Best Regards,
Rodolfo La Maestra