Will Plasma & LCD TVs Become Outdated Soon?
Probably
not any time soon. It is predicted that various flat screen
technologies will be dominant for some time to come. In much the same
way as the CRT dominated for decades.
Although Bill Gates once said that computer networking would never catch on. So who am I to predict the future of TVs?
But I can look at the history and development of the TV and it is quite
clear there is an obvious trend. Bigger, clearer, louder, more real.
The TV quite simply is trying to catch up with the cinema. And if you
consider the availability of HD in the home and the surprising lack of
it in the cinema then TV is doing a good job at catching up.
Next consider the advantages of plasma over LCD and it becomes apparent
that out of the existing technologies plasma is the most likely to
continue the race against cinema. It is true that LCD at the moment
enjoys a significant benefit of lower power consumption but this
benefit is likely to be lost with emerging improvements to plasma
technology. Of course there are always new technologies but at the time
of writing there is nothing in even the first cycle of development to
challenge Plasma to be the main contender.
The only future vision that could be bleak that I can imagine is one
caused by environmental issues. The huge amount of energy needed to
make a plasma display panel and of course use it would make it a
potential target for 'extreme legislation' if the worst predictions
about energy resources and the environment generally where to come true.
So even if a new technology is discovered tomorrow and assuming it has
enough significant advantages over plasma to motivate someone to pour a
fortune into it then plasma has at least a decade of development left.
And I would like to conclude that if you take good care of it your
plasma tv could last about as long.
