Yet another reason not to buy Plasma TVs

When I see people hauling their huge Plasma TVs out of Best Buy, I think to myself "now there's someone who didn't do their homework". If they did, they'd know a couple of things.
1. They're hot - really hot. And I don't mean in the "hot tech. item" sort of way. I mean hot enough to burn your hand if you touch the screen. Hot enough to heat a whole room.
2. They're noisy - really noisy. They have a rack of fans in the top of the monitor to pull air through to try to keep them cool.
3. They quantise the colours really badly - especially areas of continous colour, like the sky.
4. They are heavy - too heavy to hang on the average wall.
5. They're fragile - it's really easy to crack the screens on them.

And today, the next reason appeared : they suffer the old CRT burn-in problem only much, much worse. It used to take months to burn a station ident into the corner of a CRT projector. With Plasma screens, it can happen literally overnight.
Original story.
Plasma is dead. LCOS, new generation LCD and DLP TVs and projectors are going to dominate in the next few years.

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