Comment by kulahan
15 hours ago
Plasma TVs. They’re nearly irrelevant now because of OLED technology, but they were actually fantastic tech. They had a bad reputation because the early models were hot, heavy, power hungry, and suffered from burn-in.
Still, even in the early days they had great black levels and zero motion lag - they’d advertise it as “600 fps”. They seriously improved on power draws and heat, and were definitely superior if you wanted an ideal movie or sports watching experience.
Buuut they were also competing with LED TVs, which could be really REALLY thin (rule of cool) and would just sip power. They died out.
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