Going Gas by Fred Kaplan in Slate explains that it’s not quite time yet to buy:
Has there ever been a more alluring gizmo than the plasma TV? The first time you see one, you really do gasp. The screen is so big and wide, the image is so bright, the set is so amazingly flat, just a few inches deep — you could hang it on the wall.
Besides, real aficinados currently prefer DLP and LCD projectors for equal brightness, better resolution, and no motion artifacts.
It’s been a nightmare trying to get a) high definition source material and b) a hi-def projection system capable of showing it off for Pixonics. I’m proud of the system we’ve hobbled together out of a Pentium 4 with a dual-DVI video card hooked up to 2 HP DLP projectors. The box can display a 32 Mbps MPEG2 stream across 2048×768, with complete pixel for pixel accuracy (i.e., no stretching). And, we assembled it for less than $10 K, as opposed to $100+ K for comparable demo systems.
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