HDTV Expert - How The Mighty Have Fallen – By Pete Putman

[720pete]

Sharp Corporation continues to hemorrhage cash as their television business slides into obscurity. But they’re not alone.

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[David120166]

As always it's all about price rather than quality. I love my Sony TV but if it had not been available on a incredible sale I probably would be watching A Vizio or LG now. High end consumers all have already purchased new TV's and the ball is in the common man's court now. So cheap televisions will win out now.

[eliwhitney]

TO: david120166

As has been touched upon within these past ~ Three Pages of "Replies" . . . Sony Corp will very-soon become yet another "Victim" joining the ranks of our former Kuro Elite TVs!

"SONY" HDTVs of several Model Years ago were "Better" than right now!

eli

[Roger Halstead]

You know my strong dislike for anything Sony regardless of quality after their treatment of customers and openly stated opinions of said customers with the "root kit deal", but paraphrasing what I said in the other thread, the average customer can not tell the difference between the best Sony Plasma and a run of the mill LCD. I had 20:10 vision until I was nearly 50. It actually was measurable down to the theoretical limit. When it went to 20:20 it scared me. I was astounded to find that was considered perfect vision. Thing is, when viewing TV my eyes adjust to give me what I think it should be, so when adjusting a display I have to use a reference and even then I don't dare take too long to make any adjustments because the the second screen will take on the characteristics of the reference...or the reference will be degraded. I don't know which. They start to look alike which ever way it goes. OTOH when it comes to high quality audio the effort is wasted on me as my right ear is down 80 db at 6 KHz and stone deaf at 8 KHz and above. The left ear is a bit better, but the only way I hear good sound is with a head set and even then I'd have to set the level high enough to do damage to hear the highs.

So, I can understand the public going for the inexpensive displays because most of them can not see any difference between a run-of-the-mill LCD and a top of the line Plasma that costs considerably more. Economics being what they are the companies have to charge more for the already more expensive plasmas which reduces the sales even more requiring them to raise prices even more, or sell them as a "loss leader" item and that usually doesn't work well with items that are expensive to begin with. I've never noticed the difference because of my eyes compensating the image.