Watching this on my pioneer plasma, will never get rid of it. Nice to know that nothing contemporary can match its picture quality. Sure, 4K and HDR are a thing but it’s all about the motion.
Same here. I'm watching this on RUclips on my "extinct" 50-inch Panasonic, which has a much better image than all my friends' new LED TVs. This old thing here I bought in 2007 and in its 18 years it has already suffered a lot from daily watching films, soap operas, games and a lot of RUclips. It really uses a lot of energy. 250W on average, if the screen is gray; 500W if the screen is all white and at maximum brightness, and practically nothing if the image is all black. I've forgotten the TV on more than once and it stays cold, you can only tell that it's on by the LED being on. But apart from this inconvenience, the image is perfect, with slight burn-in diffused by excessive use of games and browser menus. Oh, and the damn TV channel logo. (my wife watches soap operas for endless hours)
I hope you'll be covering the difference between TVs sold as "LED" and LED TVs. It's been one of the biggest cons ever in the consumer electronics industry so is probably worth a video all to itself. An LCD TV with LED backlighting is NOT an LED TV, yet millions have been sold as such. I'm amazed there haven't been any class action lawsuits yet.
Yep, the following are all using LCD panels: - LED LCD - QLED - Mini LED Whereas OLED and MicroLED are two types of SEDs and each something as different as plasma.
LED TVs are LCD TVs that use an LED backlight. LCD TVs are LCD TVs that use an florescent back light that has a warm up time. They are more hollow and suffer from burn in
@@whophdQLED is OLED but with a Q. Mini LED is the same as Nano LED which is better than OLED which is already obsolete and Sony had ditched it for mini LED
I have a plasma TV in my room. Idk when it was made but it’s a black Sanyo flatscreen TV. My step dad got it at a yard sale in 2014 and it still works pretty good
Hi from Australia. 15 years ago, I bought a Panasonic 55 inch Plasma TV and a Panasonic PVR capable of recording 45 hours of Hi Def audio and video. My mum even saw the difference....and that's saying something. I was setting up my man cave and bought a Panasonic 60 inch 3D TV. Because the glasses were active, the 3D image was incredible as well as watching 2D images. My brother needed a place to live so I moved my surround sound 7.1 system into our lounge room along with the TV. Because my plasma wasn't used as much as the one I bought first, it looked fantastic as good as 4K TVs today. The other one has just a touch of burn in today because my mum needed the sub titles before she got hearing aids but you have to strain to see it. Plasma televisions were given a bum wrap but the amount of LED TVs that have the back lights fail is ridiculous. I've seen LED screens dumped on the side of the road or in skips because it's cheaper to buy a new one. I love plasma sets. The technology should have been refined along with other formats. I thought when LED TVs were released that the screens were made up of tiny RGB LED pixels.......everything is new until you learn about it. In theory that descripion was a good one. The bottom line is that plasmas last longer and have equal or better picture quality than other formats. My two are still working perfectly. Cheers from OZ Andrew Collins.
"On average, a 42-inch plasma TV can consume around 240-300 watts of power when turned on. This is significantly higher than other types of TVs, such as LED or OLED TVs, which can consume as little as 60-100 watts." No thanks!
Yep, I have in living room till now 39" inch Panasonic from 2009 and never regreted it. Splendit TV, no burn picture, really perfect for old Consoles + 100 Hz display.
I recently saved a 55" Samsung Plasma from the dumpster. It just needed a good and thorough clean. I ran all the tests and the calibration stuff mentioned in the service manual and that thing works absolutely great now. I am not a TV guy and neither I am into movies; but watching the occasional episode of Paradise PD or other stuff on that plasma display with a good company is really fun. The brightness and the colors are absolutely astonishing and it is just nice to have. Definitely a keeper. The thing is ridiculously heavy, though and it needs about 600 Watts of power. That is a bit of a drawback.
Panasonic 42" Plasma since 2009, almost daily usage, still working perfectly! The picture is much smoother and nicer than LCD. I don't feel any extreme heat, and electricity costs is not an issue at all.
I had a Samsung 51" plasma between 2012 and 2024. Great picture, but there was a design fault. After a few years the "chip on foil" address decoder IC would partially detach from the foil circuit board, causing a vertical line to appear down the screen. This happened in 2014 when the set was still under warranty; Samsung sent an engineer out to replace the entire panel. The new panel was a 2014 model that had the so-called "black moth" filter on the front, meaning that the unlit parts of the screen were true black (the original 2012 panel didn't have this, and the screen, when off, appeared a sort of grey colour). The new panel worked fine until the summer of 2023, when the same fault recurred (albeit in a different place). Obviously by now the set was well out of warranty, and a replacement panel was priced at £850 (the set cost me £700 in 2012). I struggled on with it until May 2024 when I upgraded to a new 65" OLED. This is the only technology available at present that can beat plasma for black levels; plasma screens need a "pre-charge" on each plasma cell which causes a faint glow even when off. Nowhere near as noticable as on an LCD screen, but not quite true black like you used to get on a CRT. OLED does give you true black, with brightness levels higher than a CRT or LCD screen - one criticism of plasma was that it wouldn't go as bright as LCD, not a problem for home cinema but could be an issue in a brightly lit room. Whilst plasma did use more power than LCD, the power consumption of my 51" plasma was less than half that of its predecessor, a 32" Panasonic CRT. As great as plasma was (and it was the best picture available at the time, save for the black level not quite matching that of CRT due to the pre-charge issue), OLED blows it out of the water. The only downside of flat panel TVs (regardless of the display technology) is the slim cabinet doesn't give enough room for a proper speaker system, therefore a soundbar is essential at the minimum. I run mine with a full 7.1 surround system, but have tried the TV's internal speakers. Despite the "Dolby Atmos" logos plastered everywhere, it sounds pretty poor in comparison.
I remember when 3DTV was a thing circa 2010-2012. I remember Nintendo was on it, Sony had one for the PS3, and it was common to see advertised everywhere. It's a shame 3D died off, but it wasn't for everyone. if you have lazy eye, the effect doesn't work well.
Still got one next to me in my room, no reason to throw it out when I mostly use my PC, so it sits there when I wanna play an older console or connect my laptop to watch a show for the aesthetics. Just sad we got rid of the crts back then and now they're all the craze. 😅
We still have a 2014 Panasonic 55” plasma in our living room. It has performed flawlessly for 10 years and has zero burn in. While cost of manufacturing was definitely a major factor in ending production, what sealead plasmas’ fate was its inability to be scaled up to 4k resolution. The individual cells that made up each pixel would not work at the smaller dimensions necessay for 4k resolution.
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3D will make a comeback, but autostereoscopic, without glasses.
We only have 4 Panasonic plasma TVs in 40, 50, 50 and 60 inches. They are still running perfectly without any burn in, the oldest is 50" from 2007 (with large built-in front surround speakers) and the newest a 60". I can see the ghosting and greywash on LED TVs so when one goes we will have to an Oled.
I still have my 42" plasma TV. I replaced it with and LCD TV for 2 reasons; the LCD didn't get very warm and cost less than 1/4 of the price to run. My plasma is sitting here waiting for it's repurpose in another room for a movie-night TV. It still has a fantastic picture and the built in speakers are awesome compared to the LCD TV's today.
When I was younger, my Dad got us a Plasma TV. Probably not even a week after we got it, I was playing on my Playstation 2, and decided to take a break. Unfortunately, I left the TV on, so when I came back, I was horrified to discover that my game had been permanently burned into the glass of the screen 😔 Well, I learned my lesson
My first HD TV was a plasma screen. It looked amazing at first but developed the worst burn in issues I had ever seen. And I wasn't the type to leave it on one channel all day long.
I do remember the times of plasma TVs, sure feels like they disappeared as soon as they appeared. I remember in the 2000s where TVs were getting HD pushed out. So much has changed so quickly
The first plasmas, so expensive, weren’t even HD. So much pride in their price and shape, it only mattered how they looked when off. Australia had a “baby bonus” in the mid ’00s, and it got nicknamed the “plasma bonus”.
Spent a lot of money on the 42 inch (46 was also a choice) first generation 3d Panasonic Plasma. 8:26 in your video. 3d Bluray player as well we had. 2010. Early December, sold a house, did well. Spent money, £3500 or so on new AV stuff. surround sound. Bluray3d player. DVD. harddisk recorder with digital tv double tuner. All Full HD. DAB / FM tuner. It all still goes. Only thing changed was the 5:1 sub woofer. It died years ago. Bought another, not too dear. The 23 inch LCD tv in bedroom as well. All 14 years old and still going. Not changing it yet. 6:30. I got fans in the back of mine, never hear them. Screen can get warm but how they work as said. had a 500Gb external drive pluging into one of the USB sockets, record TV or pause live telly. the disk died, spinning for 12 years or so. It did well. Some of it shows up on this. ruclips.net/video/bTdwvxNm6z0/видео.htmlsi=Se6f74NAYxOmFjoL&t=227
I recently got a 2011 Panasonic 3D plasma TV for free. It was broken, but I was able to fix it with about a $10 investment in some replacement transistors. It's now my main TV.
I would say OLED launched too early as well and it had issues with burnin and dimming bright scenes in movies with little to no movement on screen like people eating or having a conversation. Power consumption was also higher than LCD and technically still is. I think the emergence of 4K UHD helped kill off Plasma as nobody was going to spend the kind of money to buy a plasma 4K and nobody put any R&D into producing a 4K Plasma set, not even for trade shows like CES or E3. I had a Pioneer Kuro 2008 model for 10 years before retiring it as it had issues with displaying picture when first turning it on and the there was a short in the audio amp that would randomly cause the tv to make a loud static sound and power off due to a fault.
The OLED is simply the plasma killer and better in every way that it sure made no point in investing more in plasma. Some day will likely be the self emissive quantum dot TV replacing OLED too...
The first plasma tvs were introduced in 1997 much sooner than the "early 2000's" mentioned. Philips 42" $15,000 at Circuit City. Shortly afterward Pioneer had a 50 inch set for $25,000. I still have my Panasonic TCP54V10 from 2009. Still a great picture.
I used to have a 50 inch LG Plasma tv, "Gifted" to us by a neighbor that had gotten a 65 inch LED Smart TV. But combined with rising electricity prices and the neighbor not disclosing that they'd destroying the antiglare film on it with Windex, we used it sparingly. But when the right speaker died, we stopped using it and then got rid of it Altogether......that thing used almost 1 watt per inch of screen lol. Also it was pretty much just a large computer monitor at that point, the resolution was literally 1366x756 lol. One to one with my Toshiba Satellite laptop. Advanced for it's day, woefully inadequate now.
Respectfully I think this video needs additional research. I don’t know of anyone that owned a plasma that complained about it being uncomfortable to watch due to heat or noise. Also to note, plasmas didn’t have perfect black levels, even the mighty Kuro. Plasmas couldn’t compete with LCD/LED displays in the areas of brightness and weight and these were likely bigger factors that contributed to them being discontinued. That and OLED displays becoming the new videophile standard.
I got headaches from watching TV at my cousins place because of the noise that came from it and I remember it like yesterday, but I used to hear the 15kHz whine from CRT's through walls also, while some people can barely hear mosqitos flying around them..
also, heat output is directly correlated to energy consumed. a modern TV typically draws around 100W - 150W, while a plasma TV draws almost 3 times of that, so you can kinda get an idea about the heat generated if you feel your TV when it's been on for a few hours
I still have my 65 inch LG Plasma TV, got it in probably 2011 or 2012. I've moved house last year so it's still in storage. Back then one of the other indicated problems was a dimming effect, from just use of the TV, that eventually the light started to not be as bright due to use. So because of that I had relegated it to be a bedroom TV that was used maybe a couple hours a week rather than the main Family Room TV. Very heavy and definitely an energy hog, but yea it is great to look at.
I can imagine the cost of Xenon probably contributed quite a bit to their replacement, Xenon is insanely expensive, I don't know for sure if it's the most expensive noble gas, but it would not surprise me in the slightest if it's in the top five or even top three. Granted I'm sure they don't use a lot, but still, that probably adds up crazy fast.
The biggest problem with plasma panels, was that they didn't manage to get the cells small enough to make 1080p screens in smaller sizes, or 4K screens in bigger sizes. Also, plasma screens tend to emit a buzz when bright colours are displayed, which some people find annoying. The whole heat thing was mostly a problem with Samsung panels, as LG and Panasonic made panels that remained warm to the touch, but not as hot that you'd feel the radiating heat from your couch. We still own a 2010 Panasonic Viera Black 50" plasma TV and it crushes our other TV (a Sony LCD) in terms of colours and blacks. It's also pretty fast, not even showing ghosting in sports broadcasts. Gaming is also brilliant on it. the only downside is that it's 1o80P only, while our Sony is a 4K panel.
I found a HUGE plasma TV dumped in the woods 😝 ... it was far too big to put in my car ..... so I returned the next day ( with tools ! ) and dismantled it ... the amount of high quality components exceeds even the best CRT TV's .... I am an electronic engineer , and my spares box is now overflowing 😝( must have cost a fortune , when new ? ) .. DAVE™🛑
@@RICseries Nope. They all have finite durability... Same for CRTs. All displays that EMIT light directly from the subpixels or phosphor dots... Have finite durability. LCDs don't emit light, they have backlight therefore... LCDs don't suffer from this kind of wear You can just change the backlight.... Instead LCD layers might just rot over time.. For example you might have to change the polarizing film as well... Of course no one does this to TVs... People just get new TVs instead... But people DO repair Gameboy screens which are LCD. Can plasma screens be repaired... I think it's unlikely... Plasma and CRTs are not very repairable... Plasma and CRTs just lose brightness over time... And that's it... The phosphors get degraded.
I’m still using a 17 year old plasma tv and it’s perfectly fine. It’s silly to me people care so much about having the very best picture quality. A crt tv looks fine to me
I own a late model Kuro (KRP500A) and it was the first piece of high-end equipment I bough for myself when I was 24 (along with a very nice Onkyo 7.1 receiver). Everything nowadays seems like a tradeoff but back then it was THE television to get. Nowadays it sits in my attic seldom used, it has been mostly made obsolete by my LG GX (with Motion Pro turned on high, the 60hz motion clarity is slightly superior to the Kuro). However the Kuro has a better handling of 24hz content, making it the better choice for 1080p SDR movies. And since the image on the GX is quite dim with Motion Pro High, and the Kuro's colors have a nice incandescent quality to them, it is still on occasion the superior choice.
I bought my Panasonic 42" plasma in 2012 after some research about "what's the best plasma tv" at the time. Now it's in the bedroom and used almost daily. No permanent ghosting effects.
They definitely got super hot, I had one around 2004 when they were new tech, and I had to keep all of my windows open in the middle of winter as the heat was so unbearable.
Don't you mean using it as a TV in the summer heat of England? You want the windows open. That plasma would warm up your living room in the winter replacing the radiators. Would make more sense if you said that as using a Plasma in the UK summer heat waves is like having the radiators or space heater on at the same time with the windows sealed up and the kettle boiling and the fire place blazing
Another negative about plasma not mentioned here was tge weight. My 42" weighed over 100 pounds and was a beast to get hung, and required lag bolts into studs. My oled is a feather in comparison.
Neighbor left a big 50in plasma tv behind when they moved out. Took it in, found out it had water damage to the bottom circuit boards. Replaced them for about $40 easy fix, got a mount, and put it in my bedroom. Still has a flicker when screen is mostly white that i could also try to fix if it gets worse, and old local news logo is burned into the bottom corner of the screen lol😂
I had a housemate who had a large 3D TV and he would bring his friends around to watch 3D movies with him on a regular basis. It was, however, a nuisance to me and others because the house I'm in is shared accommodation, and I don't think he ever told the landlord he was having so many guests.
We have to add a few things to this video: - 4K - weight - which limited sheer size - thickness - sheer brightness - which limited HDR So I have to give this video a thumbs down for not meeting its title, and answering the question it set itself. The 4K revolution ended it for most brands, and 4K HDR for the rest. Only one model of 4K plasma ever went on sale (please mention this in this video), and it was only a limited release experimental production. While it’s obvious what the problem is with larger panels, you can’t even make smaller panels in 4K because the pixels get too small - and if you’ve looked into MicroLED TV technology, you’ll know that the challenge is getting below 80 inches, not above. Plasma faced the same issue at 40 inches for 4K, something LCD was very happy to do. And as for 3DTVs, the marketing was all 15 years ago not 10 years ago. By 10 years ago they were on final sale.
Flames have very little, if any, plasma in typical circumstances -- they are primarily composed of gas and small particulate matter (soot and smoke) that has been heated to the point of glowing incandescently
We still have our 50" samsung plasma mounted on the wall in the living room, even better is that we almost never use it so there's like no burn in whatsoever.
Still rocking a Plasma from Panasonic, not a TV but a monitor, at 70 inches! Weighs a fucking ton, about 80kgs, I had to build a stand out of 10cm wide steel profile for it not to wobble, but with the stand it's over 100kg. Lighter than myself anyway so I'm not worried about the flooring haha! It also keeps the room nicely warm in the winter with its 120W power consumption :P
i have Plasma TV with a broken Screen sadly 2nd year still looking for screen. it was not my TV it was from a customer who needed to be fixed after fixing it and i was amazed by how cool the image looks on that Samsung Plasma TV it went into a small accident and got broke i decided to by it due the high cost it did to get the broken boards to fix it in the first place and just wait until i find i working Screen that is not broken to fit all the boards in it
some tv's are used to imitate fireplace, so hot plasma tv would be ideal for that. there wouldn't be even issue with perma burning since fire flame is never the same
I had a Samsung plasma TV that I used my employee discount for at HHGregg when they were still around. That's all I wanted to keep in my divorce was my TV (and coffee maker). Unfortunately I ended up selling it to move, I didn't have the space. I miss my plasma, I want it back.
~8:00 Then again, it's possible for a technology that is ALMOST a winner to cause more havoc than one that immediately augers in. It can divert resources into something that is ultimately a dead end, and the road to that dead end can take many years to traverse.
I got a 65inch plasma from bang&olufsen, beovision 12 65. Also a 55inch panasonic plasma from 2014. Costumer dumped it. Also a few oleds from costumers who don't want them anymore
To be honest, I've never heard of anyone using the term "plasma tv" when referring to flat panel displays. I do know it's a different technology, but not the exact specifics. Still, as of 05.02.2025 (DD.MM.YY) it is way easier (for now) to obtain a working CRT TV/Monitor then the plasma one.
Regarding 3D … that is a funny technology seeing how it stubbornly keeps coming back every 15-20 years. Its problem, though, is that it has always tried to solve a problem that doesn’t really exist - and its problems keep outweighing its benefits. Always when it does come back like a Terminator that doesn’t know when to quit beating a dead franchise, it is somewhat nice (albeit often times a bit pricey) extra to have for the few odd years it tends to stay around 😎
I wish CRT's evolved into SED and FED tv's, too bad they were cancelled. Plasma was as close as you got to a modern day CRT. Could only imagine what a modern day Plasma would be like, a QDPlasma set with no burn in with way less power usage.
Had one of the last produced LG plasma TVs. Was so pissed when it finally took a dump on me. Held on to it for 2 years after vowing to fix it but never did. Plasma is superior in just about every way.
yeah early generation LCD's suck because when you're going over 5 milliseconds of response time it starts to become noticeable, for me when I'm buying a gaming monitor I always look for something sub 5 milliseconds preferably something sub 3 milliseconds.
I still have a fully working Pioneer Kuro plasma and for watching HD and lower resolutions is still shows the latest 4K TV's how it shoud look. Only Oled can match the black level, but they also suffer from screen burn and have a limited panel life. Will the perfect TV will ever be made, i doubt it, they want you to buy a new one every few years hence why reliabilty is if anything worse that the early LCD ones were.
The contrast on a plasma is actually no better than what a good VA LCD panel can achieve, about 5000:1, they are also not super bright, use a lot of energy which generates a lot of heat compared to LED backlit LCD panels, and are susceptible to burn in, once TV screens went 4K that was effectively the end for plasma.
I believe they couldn't make them 4K so they gave up on them. Full screen brightness is limited too. Also on a sunny day the blacks become grayish, it's only truly black in a darkened room... I still love my plasma though, nice organic picture.
Nice video about plasma screen technology. I have only seen one in action before. I grew up playing games and watching movies on CRT tvs. I got a Sony HD CRT TV from 2006 and the image quality looks great with games and a video camera that I have.
6:45 Just say the watts, it was about 300watts, and mine used 270Watts (I had a plasma tv from 2008) I daily drive now a same size 32" Led TV that only uses 30watts max, and while the backlight are toned down (to make my led tv last longer) it just uses 24-5watts
I had a used large 54" or so 720p one and it looked great! Even for 720p. I sold it on CL for $100 and I miss it sometimes. It was a cheaper model, $600 when new I think. Even for a cheaper model, the colors and blacks looked incredible. I sold it because I would have rather had a 1080p at that size. Didn't have any burn in. A 4k plasma would probably look very impressive. I really just miss when TVs were not filled with ads (to subsidize the cost) and laggy menus. My roommate bought an Insignia (always a terrible brand, his first mistake. TCL is better) 720p (2nd mistake, in 2024!) just because it was one of the cheapest tvs on that certain website people buys stuff. After 3 days, I turned it on and there was a blue 1px wide horizontal line! what a piece of junk. ("Why didn't you just return it?" not worth the hassle from a men's perspective)
The burn in and cost alone were enough to make me say no. But yeah they certainly looked great! Funny we still have a 26" LCD bought in 2005 for $500, and look at evolution now what that money gets you. Crazy
I have a 2010 Panasonic 50" plasma still working fine. At the time l could have went with lcd but l knew from research that the plasma would have better picture quality.
I wish more investment were put on Plasma TVs, they were a very close friend from CRTs, the image in my opinion could have much better image quality and a very interesting technology. It would be a very good quality TVs.
They never quite solved the “twinkle” though. It became less noticeable with the 100/120 Hz and 200/240 Hz versions, but each pixel was still displaying a small variation of brightnesses and then using temporal dithering. Yuck.
Still have my LG plasma and rarely used it. I have to say it was a big disappointment. It does not seem to be possible to get true black and despite it being sold as 1080p is somehow has a permanent noise reduction that makes it looks far worse. They are not all good. And yes it is a true plasma. The screen does not stay it's native black turned off level even when it is showing black, always has some LCD type bleed through illumination.
A roommate got a plasma screen for the house around in '08 and it developed the most horrific case of perma-burnin possible.
Most of that burn in is caused by the TV not being properly calibrated and users running the TV in "Vivid" picture mode ie contrast all the way up.
@@DGinNC I had a plasma TV with horrible burn in and guarantee I wasn't running with those settings
I had to laugh - "Today they are extinct", he said as I watched...on my plasma TV.
Watching this on my pioneer plasma, will never get rid of it. Nice to know that nothing contemporary can match its picture quality. Sure, 4K and HDR are a thing but it’s all about the motion.
Me too!
Same here. I'm watching this on RUclips on my "extinct" 50-inch Panasonic, which has a much better image than all my friends' new LED TVs.
This old thing here I bought in 2007 and in its 18 years it has already suffered a lot from daily watching films, soap operas, games and a lot of RUclips.
It really uses a lot of energy. 250W on average, if the screen is gray; 500W if the screen is all white and at maximum brightness, and practically nothing if the image is all black. I've forgotten the TV on more than once and it stays cold, you can only tell that it's on by the LED being on.
But apart from this inconvenience, the image is perfect, with slight burn-in diffused by excessive use of games and browser menus. Oh, and the damn TV channel logo. (my wife watches soap operas for endless hours)
Same here
I hope you'll be covering the difference between TVs sold as "LED" and LED TVs. It's been one of the biggest cons ever in the consumer electronics industry so is probably worth a video all to itself. An LCD TV with LED backlighting is NOT an LED TV, yet millions have been sold as such. I'm amazed there haven't been any class action lawsuits yet.
Yep, the following are all using LCD panels:
- LED LCD
- QLED
- Mini LED
Whereas OLED and MicroLED are two types of SEDs and each something as different as plasma.
LED TVs are LCD TVs that use an LED backlight. LCD TVs are LCD TVs that use an florescent back light that has a warm up time. They are more hollow and suffer from burn in
@@whophdQLED is OLED but with a Q. Mini LED is the same as Nano LED which is better than OLED which is already obsolete and Sony had ditched it for mini LED
I have a plasma TV in my room. Idk when it was made but it’s a black Sanyo flatscreen TV. My step dad got it at a yard sale in 2014 and it still works pretty good
Hi from Australia. 15 years ago, I bought a Panasonic 55 inch Plasma TV and a Panasonic PVR capable of recording 45 hours of Hi Def audio and video. My mum even saw the difference....and that's saying something. I was setting up my man cave and bought a Panasonic 60 inch 3D TV. Because the glasses were active, the 3D image was incredible as well as watching 2D images. My brother needed a place to live so I moved my surround sound 7.1 system into our lounge room along with the TV. Because my plasma wasn't used as much as the one I bought first, it looked fantastic as good as 4K TVs today. The other one has just a touch of burn in today because my mum needed the sub titles before she got hearing aids but you have to strain to see it. Plasma televisions were given a bum wrap but the amount of LED TVs that have the back lights fail is ridiculous. I've seen LED screens dumped on the side of the road or in skips because it's cheaper to buy a new one. I love plasma sets. The technology should have been refined along with other formats. I thought when LED TVs were released that the screens were made up of tiny RGB LED pixels.......everything is new until you learn about it. In theory that descripion was a good one. The bottom line is that plasmas last longer and have equal or better picture quality than other formats. My two are still working perfectly. Cheers from OZ Andrew Collins.
"On average, a 42-inch plasma TV can consume around 240-300 watts of power when turned on. This is significantly higher than other types of TVs, such as LED or OLED TVs, which can consume as little as 60-100 watts." No thanks!
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxyes. Pay the bills get a CRT 80" Sony Trinitron XBR HDR
Yep, I have in living room till now 39" inch Panasonic from 2009 and never regreted it. Splendit TV, no burn picture, really perfect for old Consoles + 100 Hz display.
I recently saved a 55" Samsung Plasma from the dumpster. It just needed a good and thorough clean. I ran all the tests and the calibration stuff mentioned in the service manual and that thing works absolutely great now. I am not a TV guy and neither I am into movies; but watching the occasional episode of Paradise PD or other stuff on that plasma display with a good company is really fun. The brightness and the colors are absolutely astonishing and it is just nice to have. Definitely a keeper. The thing is ridiculously heavy, though and it needs about 600 Watts of power. That is a bit of a drawback.
I don’t know anyone who calls any flatscreen a plasma brah
They did at the time, even in the advertising material.
older folks still do to this day
ok 2008 baby
The same people that call any soda a Coke.
I bet you don’t, “brah”.
Panasonic 42" Plasma since 2009, almost daily usage, still working perfectly! The picture is much smoother and nicer than LCD. I don't feel any extreme heat, and electricity costs is not an issue at all.
I had a Samsung 51" plasma between 2012 and 2024. Great picture, but there was a design fault. After a few years the "chip on foil" address decoder IC would partially detach from the foil circuit board, causing a vertical line to appear down the screen.
This happened in 2014 when the set was still under warranty; Samsung sent an engineer out to replace the entire panel. The new panel was a 2014 model that had the so-called "black moth" filter on the front, meaning that the unlit parts of the screen were true black (the original 2012 panel didn't have this, and the screen, when off, appeared a sort of grey colour).
The new panel worked fine until the summer of 2023, when the same fault recurred (albeit in a different place). Obviously by now the set was well out of warranty, and a replacement panel was priced at £850 (the set cost me £700 in 2012).
I struggled on with it until May 2024 when I upgraded to a new 65" OLED. This is the only technology available at present that can beat plasma for black levels; plasma screens need a "pre-charge" on each plasma cell which causes a faint glow even when off. Nowhere near as noticable as on an LCD screen, but not quite true black like you used to get on a CRT. OLED does give you true black, with brightness levels higher than a CRT or LCD screen - one criticism of plasma was that it wouldn't go as bright as LCD, not a problem for home cinema but could be an issue in a brightly lit room.
Whilst plasma did use more power than LCD, the power consumption of my 51" plasma was less than half that of its predecessor, a 32" Panasonic CRT.
As great as plasma was (and it was the best picture available at the time, save for the black level not quite matching that of CRT due to the pre-charge issue), OLED blows it out of the water.
The only downside of flat panel TVs (regardless of the display technology) is the slim cabinet doesn't give enough room for a proper speaker system, therefore a soundbar is essential at the minimum. I run mine with a full 7.1 surround system, but have tried the TV's internal speakers. Despite the "Dolby Atmos" logos plastered everywhere, it sounds pretty poor in comparison.
its sad as plasmas are amazing i still have a 60 inch i use as its near indestructible
I remember when 3DTV was a thing circa 2010-2012. I remember Nintendo was on it, Sony had one for the PS3, and it was common to see advertised everywhere. It's a shame 3D died off, but it wasn't for everyone. if you have lazy eye, the effect doesn't work well.
Still got one next to me in my room, no reason to throw it out when I mostly use my PC, so it sits there when I wanna play an older console or connect my laptop to watch a show for the aesthetics. Just sad we got rid of the crts back then and now they're all the craze. 😅
We still have a 2014 Panasonic 55” plasma in our living room. It has performed flawlessly for 10 years and has zero burn in. While cost of manufacturing was definitely a major factor in ending production, what sealead plasmas’ fate was its inability to be scaled up to 4k resolution. The individual cells that made up each pixel would not work at the smaller dimensions necessay for 4k resolution.
3D will make a comeback, but autostereoscopic, without glasses.
My parents still have their Panasonic Plasma TV from around 2010. The remote slowly dies, but the TV is doing great
In the early 2010'stthere was an attempt to create flat screens with ultra micro CRT
We only have 4 Panasonic plasma TVs in 40, 50, 50 and 60 inches. They are still running perfectly without any burn in, the oldest is 50" from 2007 (with large built-in front surround speakers) and the newest a 60". I can see the ghosting and greywash on LED TVs so when one goes we will have to an Oled.
I still have my 42" plasma TV. I replaced it with and LCD TV for 2 reasons; the LCD didn't get very warm and cost less than 1/4 of the price to run. My plasma is sitting here waiting for it's repurpose in another room for a movie-night TV. It still has a fantastic picture and the built in speakers are awesome compared to the LCD TV's today.
When I was younger, my Dad got us a Plasma TV. Probably not even a week after we got it, I was playing on my Playstation 2, and decided to take a break. Unfortunately, I left the TV on, so when I came back, I was horrified to discover that my game had been permanently burned into the glass of the screen 😔 Well, I learned my lesson
My first HD TV was a plasma screen. It looked amazing at first but developed the worst burn in issues I had ever seen. And I wasn't the type to leave it on one channel all day long.
I do remember the times of plasma TVs, sure feels like they disappeared as soon as they appeared. I remember in the 2000s where TVs were getting HD pushed out. So much has changed so quickly
The first plasmas, so expensive, weren’t even HD. So much pride in their price and shape, it only mattered how they looked when off. Australia had a “baby bonus” in the mid ’00s, and it got nicknamed the “plasma bonus”.
Spent a lot of money on the 42 inch (46 was also a choice) first generation 3d Panasonic Plasma. 8:26 in your video. 3d Bluray player as well we had. 2010. Early December, sold a house, did well. Spent money, £3500 or so on new AV stuff. surround sound. Bluray3d player. DVD. harddisk recorder with digital tv double tuner. All Full HD. DAB / FM tuner. It all still goes. Only thing changed was the 5:1 sub woofer. It died years ago. Bought another, not too dear. The 23 inch LCD tv in bedroom as well. All 14 years old and still going. Not changing it yet. 6:30. I got fans in the back of mine, never hear them. Screen can get warm but how they work as said. had a 500Gb external drive pluging into one of the USB sockets, record TV or pause live telly. the disk died, spinning for 12 years or so. It did well. Some of it shows up on this. ruclips.net/video/bTdwvxNm6z0/видео.htmlsi=Se6f74NAYxOmFjoL&t=227
I recently got a 2011 Panasonic 3D plasma TV for free. It was broken, but I was able to fix it with about a $10 investment in some replacement transistors. It's now my main TV.
I have NEVER heard anyone refer to any television as a plasma screen. Even when they were around..
OLEDs are superior.
I would say OLED launched too early as well and it had issues with burnin and dimming bright scenes in movies with little to no movement on screen like people eating or having a conversation. Power consumption was also higher than LCD and technically still is.
I think the emergence of 4K UHD helped kill off Plasma as nobody was going to spend the kind of money to buy a plasma 4K and nobody put any R&D into producing a 4K Plasma set, not even for trade shows like CES or E3.
I had a Pioneer Kuro 2008 model for 10 years before retiring it as it had issues with displaying picture when first turning it on and the there was a short in the audio amp that would randomly cause the tv to make a loud static sound and power off due to a fault.
The OLED is simply the plasma killer and better in every way that it sure made no point in investing more in plasma.
Some day will likely be the self emissive quantum dot TV replacing OLED too...
@@guily6669don't worry QDEL is coming
Just watched this on my 3D enabled Panasonic Plasma TV, from 2012 think, still works perfectly. Can't say I've ever heard the 4 fans make any noise.
Just retired our 42" Philips Plasma after 17 years of perfect service. Would have kept it but gave off too much heat in the bedroom during the summer.
The first plasma tvs were introduced in 1997 much sooner than the "early 2000's" mentioned. Philips 42" $15,000 at Circuit City. Shortly afterward Pioneer had a 50 inch set for $25,000. I still have my Panasonic TCP54V10 from 2009. Still a great picture.
I loved my Plasma TVs. Expensive OLED TV's finally equaled and surpassed the quality of plasma's but it took years and they are so much more money.
I used to have a 50 inch LG Plasma tv, "Gifted" to us by a neighbor that had gotten a 65 inch LED Smart TV. But combined with rising electricity prices and the neighbor not disclosing that they'd destroying the antiglare film on it with Windex, we used it sparingly. But when the right speaker died, we stopped using it and then got rid of it Altogether......that thing used almost 1 watt per inch of screen lol. Also it was pretty much just a large computer monitor at that point, the resolution was literally 1366x756 lol. One to one with my Toshiba Satellite laptop. Advanced for it's day, woefully inadequate now.
Am still rocking a 50" Panasonic TX-P50GT60 from 2013/14 ... Going strong and won't be changing it any time soon !
Respectfully I think this video needs additional research. I don’t know of anyone that owned a plasma that complained about it being uncomfortable to watch due to heat or noise. Also to note, plasmas didn’t have perfect black levels, even the mighty Kuro. Plasmas couldn’t compete with LCD/LED displays in the areas of brightness and weight and these were likely bigger factors that contributed to them being discontinued. That and OLED displays becoming the new videophile standard.
I got headaches from watching TV at my cousins place because of the noise that came from it and I remember it like yesterday, but I used to hear the 15kHz whine from CRT's through walls also, while some people can barely hear mosqitos flying around them..
also, heat output is directly correlated to energy consumed. a modern TV typically draws around 100W - 150W, while a plasma TV draws almost 3 times of that, so you can kinda get an idea about the heat generated if you feel your TV when it's been on for a few hours
I still have my 65 inch LG Plasma TV, got it in probably 2011 or 2012. I've moved house last year so it's still in storage.
Back then one of the other indicated problems was a dimming effect, from just use of the TV, that eventually the light started to not be as bright due to use. So because of that I had relegated it to be a bedroom TV that was used maybe a couple hours a week rather than the main Family Room TV.
Very heavy and definitely an energy hog, but yea it is great to look at.
I could never understand the appeal. They were really expensive, used loads of power and were very susceptible to burn-in.
I can imagine the cost of Xenon probably contributed quite a bit to their replacement, Xenon is insanely expensive, I don't know for sure if it's the most expensive noble gas, but it would not surprise me in the slightest if it's in the top five or even top three. Granted I'm sure they don't use a lot, but still, that probably adds up crazy fast.
The biggest problem with plasma panels, was that they didn't manage to get the cells small enough to make 1080p screens in smaller sizes, or 4K screens in bigger sizes.
Also, plasma screens tend to emit a buzz when bright colours are displayed, which some people find annoying.
The whole heat thing was mostly a problem with Samsung panels, as LG and Panasonic made panels that remained warm to the touch, but not as hot that you'd feel the radiating heat from your couch.
We still own a 2010 Panasonic Viera Black 50" plasma TV and it crushes our other TV (a Sony LCD) in terms of colours and blacks. It's also pretty fast, not even showing ghosting in sports broadcasts. Gaming is also brilliant on it. the only downside is that it's 1o80P only, while our Sony is a 4K panel.
I found a HUGE plasma TV dumped in the woods 😝 ... it was far too big to put in my car ..... so I returned the next day ( with tools ! ) and dismantled it ... the amount of high quality components exceeds even the best CRT TV's .... I am an electronic engineer , and my spares box is now overflowing 😝( must have cost a fortune , when new ? ) .. DAVE™🛑
Basically they spend a shit-ton of energy and are not as durable as CRTs or LCDs...
plasma tvs made before 2015 were indestructible
@@RICseries Nope. They all have finite durability... Same for CRTs. All displays that EMIT light directly from the subpixels or phosphor dots... Have finite durability. LCDs don't emit light, they have backlight therefore... LCDs don't suffer from this kind of wear You can just change the backlight.... Instead LCD layers might just rot over time.. For example you might have to change the polarizing film as well... Of course no one does this to TVs... People just get new TVs instead... But people DO repair Gameboy screens which are LCD. Can plasma screens be repaired... I think it's unlikely... Plasma and CRTs are not very repairable... Plasma and CRTs just lose brightness over time... And that's it... The phosphors get degraded.
One day the King 👑 of TVs will return
My ex wife has an old plasma and its quality is still amazing.
I’m still using a 17 year old plasma tv and it’s perfectly fine. It’s silly to me people care so much about having the very best picture quality. A crt tv looks fine to me
I own a late model Kuro (KRP500A) and it was the first piece of high-end equipment I bough for myself when I was 24 (along with a very nice Onkyo 7.1 receiver).
Everything nowadays seems like a tradeoff but back then it was THE television to get.
Nowadays it sits in my attic seldom used, it has been mostly made obsolete by my LG GX (with Motion Pro turned on high, the 60hz motion clarity is slightly superior to the Kuro). However the Kuro has a better handling of 24hz content, making it the better choice for 1080p SDR movies. And since the image on the GX is quite dim with Motion Pro High, and the Kuro's colors have a nice incandescent quality to them, it is still on occasion the superior choice.
In the late 2000's I had a 42 inch Samsung Plasma TV. I went to a friends house who had a LG LCD TV and it looked terrible when compared to my Plasma.
I had a 43" Philips Plasma TV and it was very heavy.
I bought my Panasonic 42" plasma in 2012 after some research about "what's the best plasma tv" at the time. Now it's in the bedroom and used almost daily. No permanent ghosting effects.
I’m still disappointed I missed out on 3D TVs.
They definitely got super hot, I had one around 2004 when they were new tech, and I had to keep all of my windows open in the middle of winter as the heat was so unbearable.
Don't you mean using it as a TV in the summer heat of England? You want the windows open. That plasma would warm up your living room in the winter replacing the radiators. Would make more sense if you said that as using a Plasma in the UK summer heat waves is like having the radiators or space heater on at the same time with the windows sealed up and the kettle boiling and the fire place blazing
Another negative about plasma not mentioned here was tge weight. My 42" weighed over 100 pounds and was a beast to get hung, and required lag bolts into studs. My oled is a feather in comparison.
Neighbor left a big 50in plasma tv behind when they moved out. Took it in, found out it had water damage to the bottom circuit boards. Replaced them for about $40 easy fix, got a mount, and put it in my bedroom. Still has a flicker when screen is mostly white that i could also try to fix if it gets worse, and old local news logo is burned into the bottom corner of the screen lol😂
So that’s why. No work around could be made
No burn-in on my 2011 Panasonic plasma. Bought it primarily because it was nearly 1/3 cheaper than a comparable LCD HDTV at the time.
I had a housemate who had a large 3D TV and he would bring his friends around to watch 3D movies with him on a regular basis. It was, however, a nuisance to me and others because the house I'm in is shared accommodation, and I don't think he ever told the landlord he was having so many guests.
We have to add a few things to this video:
- 4K
- weight - which limited sheer size
- thickness
- sheer brightness - which limited HDR
So I have to give this video a thumbs down for not meeting its title, and answering the question it set itself. The 4K revolution ended it for most brands, and 4K HDR for the rest.
Only one model of 4K plasma ever went on sale (please mention this in this video), and it was only a limited release experimental production. While it’s obvious what the problem is with larger panels, you can’t even make smaller panels in 4K because the pixels get too small - and if you’ve looked into MicroLED TV technology, you’ll know that the challenge is getting below 80 inches, not above. Plasma faced the same issue at 40 inches for 4K, something LCD was very happy to do.
And as for 3DTVs, the marketing was all 15 years ago not 10 years ago. By 10 years ago they were on final sale.
Flames have very little, if any, plasma in typical circumstances -- they are primarily composed of gas and small particulate matter (soot and smoke) that has been heated to the point of glowing incandescently
We still have our 50" samsung plasma mounted on the wall in the living room, even better is that we almost never use it so there's like no burn in whatsoever.
Would of been neat to see what plasma tvs could of become if they continued
would have
Still rocking a Plasma from Panasonic, not a TV but a monitor, at 70 inches! Weighs a fucking ton, about 80kgs, I had to build a stand out of 10cm wide steel profile for it not to wobble, but with the stand it's over 100kg. Lighter than myself anyway so I'm not worried about the flooring haha! It also keeps the room nicely warm in the winter with its 120W power consumption :P
First Plasma TV came out in 1995 I believes
friend had a 50 inch Panasonic plasma back in mid 2010's and i remember that it's 1080p picture was really good, but it did warm up the room a lot.
i have Plasma TV with a broken Screen sadly 2nd year still looking for screen.
it was not my TV it was from a customer who needed to be fixed after fixing it and i was amazed by how cool the image looks on that Samsung Plasma TV it went into a small accident and got broke i decided to by it due the high cost it did to get the broken boards to fix it in the first place and just wait until i find i working Screen that is not broken to fit all the boards in it
some tv's are used to imitate fireplace, so hot plasma tv would be ideal for that. there wouldn't be even issue with perma burning since fire flame is never the same
I had a Samsung plasma TV that I used my employee discount for at HHGregg when they were still around. That's all I wanted to keep in my divorce was my TV (and coffee maker). Unfortunately I ended up selling it to move, I didn't have the space. I miss my plasma, I want it back.
~8:00 Then again, it's possible for a technology that is ALMOST a winner to cause more havoc than one that immediately augers in. It can divert resources into something that is ultimately a dead end, and the road to that dead end can take many years to traverse.
I got a 65inch plasma from bang&olufsen, beovision 12 65. Also a 55inch panasonic plasma from 2014. Costumer dumped it. Also a few oleds from costumers who don't want them anymore
I had one back in 2003. Can't remember the make, but it was really heavy!!
still have my Panasonic plasma and its working fine
To be honest, I've never heard of anyone using the term "plasma tv" when referring to flat panel displays. I do know it's a different technology, but not the exact specifics.
Still, as of 05.02.2025 (DD.MM.YY) it is way easier (for now) to obtain a working CRT TV/Monitor then the plasma one.
My 2011 LG is still going strong...
I looooooove my plasma TV. The TRON (1982) blu-ray on there looks amazing!
Regarding 3D … that is a funny technology seeing how it stubbornly keeps coming back every 15-20 years. Its problem, though, is that it has always tried to solve a problem that doesn’t really exist - and its problems keep outweighing its benefits. Always when it does come back like a Terminator that doesn’t know when to quit beating a dead franchise, it is somewhat nice (albeit often times a bit pricey) extra to have for the few odd years it tends to stay around 😎
I wish CRT's evolved into SED and FED tv's, too bad they were cancelled. Plasma was as close as you got to a modern day CRT. Could only imagine what a modern day Plasma would be like, a QDPlasma set with no burn in with way less power usage.
I agree. Each pixel it's own crt
Had one of the last produced LG plasma TVs. Was so pissed when it finally took a dump on me. Held on to it for 2 years after vowing to fix it but never did. Plasma is superior in just about every way.
yeah early generation LCD's suck because when you're going over 5 milliseconds of response time it starts to become noticeable, for me when I'm buying a gaming monitor I always look for something sub 5 milliseconds preferably something sub 3 milliseconds.
This is why “plasma” TVs are extinct…..
Has CRT in Thumbnail… CRT is the first word spoken
Yeah I don’t think that’s a “plasma” tv buddy
I still have a fully working Pioneer Kuro plasma and for watching HD and lower resolutions
is still shows the latest 4K TV's how it shoud look.
Only Oled can match the black level, but they also suffer from screen burn and have a limited
panel life.
Will the perfect TV will ever be made, i doubt it, they want you to buy a new one every few years
hence why reliabilty is if anything worse that the early LCD ones were.
The contrast on a plasma is actually no better than what a good VA LCD panel can achieve, about 5000:1, they are also not super bright, use a lot of energy which generates a lot of heat compared to LED backlit LCD panels, and are susceptible to burn in, once TV screens went 4K that was effectively the end for plasma.
I believe they couldn't make them 4K so they gave up on them. Full screen brightness is limited too. Also on a sunny day the blacks become grayish, it's only truly black in a darkened room... I still love my plasma though, nice organic picture.
Nice video about plasma screen technology. I have only seen one in action before. I grew up playing games and watching movies on CRT tvs. I got a Sony HD CRT TV from 2006 and the image quality looks great with games and a video camera that I have.
I want to see this TV
I will be uploading a video of my CRT collection soon.@@BigfootIarry
Philips 42PW9962 1998 - first commercial plasma TV! Was it in Puff Daddy's video of Godzilla's movie?
6:45 Just say the watts, it was about 300watts, and mine used 270Watts (I had a plasma tv from 2008) I daily drive now a same size 32" Led TV that only uses 30watts max, and while the backlight are toned down (to make my led tv last longer) it just uses 24-5watts
Still have mine
Nice video man 🔥👏
I had a used large 54" or so 720p one and it looked great! Even for 720p. I sold it on CL for $100 and I miss it sometimes. It was a cheaper model, $600 when new I think. Even for a cheaper model, the colors and blacks looked incredible. I sold it because I would have rather had a 1080p at that size. Didn't have any burn in. A 4k plasma would probably look very impressive.
I really just miss when TVs were not filled with ads (to subsidize the cost) and laggy menus. My roommate bought an Insignia (always a terrible brand, his first mistake. TCL is better) 720p (2nd mistake, in 2024!) just because it was one of the cheapest tvs on that certain website people buys stuff. After 3 days, I turned it on and there was a blue 1px wide horizontal line! what a piece of junk. ("Why didn't you just return it?" not worth the hassle from a men's perspective)
Once I got my OLED monitor I could never go back to LCD. LCD looks terrible.
Now it sounds much better 👏🏽👏🏽
The burn in and cost alone were enough to make me say no. But yeah they certainly looked great! Funny we still have a 26" LCD bought in 2005 for $500, and look at evolution now what that money gets you. Crazy
just recycled one from 2008. sad to see it was dead...
Wait what?
I still have plasma tv (CRT monitor).
I didn't even knew you guys in the west made it extinct!
8:05 I'm surprised there's a MangoHUD overlay here (what's the video being used?)
I have a 2010 Panasonic 50" plasma still working fine.
At the time l could have went with lcd but l knew from research that the plasma would have better picture quality.
I wish more investment were put on Plasma TVs, they were a very close friend from CRTs, the image in my opinion could have much better image quality and a very interesting technology. It would be a very good quality TVs.
They never quite solved the “twinkle” though. It became less noticeable with the 100/120 Hz and 200/240 Hz versions, but each pixel was still displaying a small variation of brightnesses and then using temporal dithering. Yuck.
I assume the name Plasma stuck because it sounds "scientific"
Great vid
🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤the best video.
That means OLED is the techorganic grandson of CRT.
OLED SCREENS, TRANSFORM AND MAXIMIZE!!!
Still have my LG plasma and rarely used it. I have to say it was a big disappointment. It does not seem to be possible to get true black and despite it being sold as 1080p is somehow has a permanent noise reduction that makes it looks far worse. They are not all good. And yes it is a true plasma. The screen does not stay it's native black turned off level even when it is showing black, always has some LCD type bleed through illumination.
0:00 burrr CRT TV
I have a Samsung plasma tv and the news channel is burned into it
flat screens are not extinct but got oled qled now.