Time for a new TV again, folks!

[gaijinpunch]

Does anybody else have an arcade monitor in their house that's capable of displaying 240p? Yes, the mode exists, and for the few things that actually output that, it's beautiful.

Maybe they'll finally use something stationary to do the spoon/fork/hashi pose.

Dude...totally wondering about this. Such shit production value, and EVERY fucking show does it!

Back semi-on topic, I exported a Panasonic HiVision LD player with some HiVision discs. It was pricey, to say the least. The movies were normal Hollywood cockbusters, and were between 5000 and 8000 yen each.

Was that the only standard HiVision before the current? I remember NEC displayed a game called HiTen Bomberman which ever got out of the prototype phase, but I'll go out on a limb and say it was the the first game in resolution above standard..

[matsuki]

Does anybody else have an arcade monitor in their house that's capable of displaying 240p? Yes, the mode exists, and for the few things that actually output that, it's beautiful.

Maybe they'll finally use something stationary to do the spoon/fork/hashi pose.

Dude...totally wondering about this. Such shit production value, and EVERY fucking show does it!

Quite a bit of their panning shots are done by hand too...watch the edge of the screen and get sick. It's like they have a decent concept but shit execution with so many things.

[Russell]

Great, Ultra HD shows about ramen

Maybe they'll finally use something stationary to do the spoon/fork/hashi pose...all the one's I've seen recently look like Parkinson's disease patients are being used to hold the utensils for them while they do a close up.

It is the big screen sizes these days that cause the problem, by enlarging every tiny movement. In the old days the Parkinson effect was there too, but not noticed.

I initially planned to buy a 42 incher, but changed my mind after getting nauseous in the shop when watching them (and it wasn't even 3D).

So guess what, I bought myself a cheap 32 inch Prodia with full HD (1920 by 1080 pixels):

http://kakaku.com/item/K0000291352/
http://www.pixela.co.jp/products/prodia/prd_lh132b/

Made in China (like every Japanese branded TV these days).

And it gives me the resolution of a 4K 64 inch TV.

[Russell]

What's this "again" crap? I still have my 12+ year old 29" Toshiba 4:3 tube TV!

I had too until recently, since my cable company provides the old analogous format until 5 years after the switch to digital. However, this big box became too much of an eye sore, so, acting against all my Dutch money-saving principles, I got myself a flatter eye sore instead.

[matsuki]

Great, Ultra HD shows about ramen

Maybe they'll finally use something stationary to do the spoon/fork/hashi pose...all the one's I've seen recently look like Parkinson's disease patients are being used to hold the utensils for them while they do a close up.

It is the big screen sizes these days that cause the problem, by enlarging every tiny movement. In the old days the Parkinson effect was there too, but not noticed.

That's why posted about it here....as the TV's get better and bigger, lil crap like that gets worse.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Great, Ultra HD shows about ramen

Maybe they'll finally use something stationary to do the spoon/fork/hashi pose...all the one's I've seen recently look like Parkinson's disease patients are being used to hold the utensils for them while they do a close up.

It is the big screen sizes these days that cause the problem, by enlarging every tiny movement. In the old days the Parkinson effect was there too, but not noticed.

That's why posted about it here....as the TV's get better and bigger, lil crap like that gets worse.

For whatever reason quivering food looks delicious to people in Japan.

[Mike Oxlong]

When it's a quivering mound of love pudding, it looks quite delicious to me too.

[Tsuru]

How a lot of people keep spending thousands on the latest and greatest 80" 3HD OLED TV with matching audio systems and yet continue to watch unrelenting mass-consumption horseshit on it is completely beyond me. What is the point of watching primetime TV in excruciating 4K-detail? Just so you can make out the veins in the presenter's eyeballs?

My TV of 3 years old broke the other day as it was suffering from an image processor undoing itself thanks to the ROHS-compliant solder, I had the good sense of fixing it myself. Ideally I'd like one which has Plex on it (all the kimchee ones have it these days apparently), but I think I'll manage. The kids will probably destroy it in the near future anyway

[Coligny]

How a lot of people keep spending thousands on the latest and greatest 80" 3HD OLED TV with matching audio systems and yet continue to watch unrelenting mass-consumption horseshit on it is completely beyond me. What is the point of watching primetime TV in excruciating 4K-detail? Just so you can make out the veins in the presenter's eyeballs?

Ya could have stopped there...

My TV of 3 years old broke the other day as it was suffering from an image processor undoing itself thanks to the ROHS-compliant solder, I had the good sense of fixing it myself. Ideally I'd like one which has Plex on it (all the kimchee ones have it these days apparently), but I think I'll manage. The kids will probably destroy it in the near future anyway

Let me guess... reflow with a hot air gun...

[Tsuru]

Nothing gets past you, does it?

[Coligny]

You'd be AMAZED by the amount of free time I have...


//pretty sure I just saw a previously unspotted dragoon in the clouds...
///hafta fetch mah camera....
////SLASHIEZZZZZZ!!!!

[Russell]

How a lot of people keep spending thousands on the latest and greatest 80" 3HD OLED TV with matching audio systems and yet continue to watch unrelenting mass-consumption horseshit on it is completely beyond me. What is the point of watching primetime TV in excruciating 4K-detail? Just so you can make out the veins in the presenter's eyeballs?

Well, maybe they want to watch pron in all its intimate details on those 80 inchers...

[matsuki]

How a lot of people keep spending thousands on the latest and greatest 80" 3HD OLED TV with matching audio systems and yet continue to watch unrelenting mass-consumption horseshit on it is completely beyond me. What is the point of watching primetime TV in excruciating 4K-detail? Just so you can make out the veins in the presenter's eyeballs?

Well, maybe they want to watch pron in all its intimate details on those 80 inchers...

Ionno, pron suddenly becomes less sexy when you can see what a shitty job she did shaving, stretchmarks, or the zits on her ass.

[Coligny]

Yeah... prerty much this...

Don'tget me started on the actress where you wish the mosaic did a better job...

[Mike Oxlong]

Panasonic concedes plasma TV defeat, ends production

After the heartbreak of losing Pioneer's excellent Kuro line, Panasonic's plasma displays were the last bastion of hope for plasma TV enthusiasts, but now even they are going extinct. Panasonic today confirmed a Reuters report from earlier this month that it is exiting the plasma TV market with almost immediate effect — production of new units will end in December and all related operations will be wrapped by March next year. Two of Panasonic's three factories have already stopped building new units and the third will join them in about a month's time. The Verge reported this past April that the company had ceased all future plasma display development.

Panasonic made a strong effort to push its plasma TVs this year — coming to CES in January with a fully refreshed home theater lineup — however the economics of plasma display production just haven't worked out for the company. Though consumer demand is apparently still firm, Panasonic says that "due to rapid, drastic changes in the business environment" and price pressure from more affordable LCD TVs, the unhappy decision had to be made. That leaves HD enthusiasts with a few months to save up the money to buy a ZT60, the last in a proud line of beautiful TVs.

As for the future, a Panasonic Display vice president told The Verge in April that plasma research and development efforts would likely be diverted to OLED. The company sees televisions using the technology as "one of the key future products," and it is working to insure that it can make affordable OLED TVs that still leave room for profit before putting any up for sale. If and when that day comes, sticklers for the picture quality offered by plasmas should be more than happy with OLEDs...