You're one of the least knowledgeable T.V sales reps I've came across. You're talking 10 years ago man. You're both under educated and outdated on your information.
I'm not hear to increase your IQ, so please look up the VT60 line. Directly contrasting everything you said, it has a higher viewing angle than ANY LCD ever made, black levels the darkest ever recorded on anything besides a 2015 OLED, and a lifespan of 50 years with only a 8% degradation in black levels, which is far, far less than LCDs.
Beyond that, yes plasmas lack in bright room performance, but by bright, I mean mid-day sun with every window open. Please educate yourself, technology changes fast, Moores law after all.
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Edited by Xenodeath: 12/17/2014 2:07:11 AMI apperciate the level headed and faxt support rebuttal. I have never liked plasmas personally. I do admit the information I used was very outdated and that I am not current, however plasmas have been mostly phased out for a reason. Edit: I was a rep years ago so I haven't exactly been up to date. It the time and for my products I was selling I was one of the most knowledgeable amongst my coworkers.
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> I was one of the most knowledgeable amongst my coworkers. Pity for the customers at the time. The picture quality on plasmas was, and remains, superior to anything else. Unfortunately that quality comes at the risk of image retention or even burn-in. It's a tough trade-off to make. As for their discontinuance, it's cheaper for the vendors to make LCD or LED units. That quality is lost does much matter to most of the folks buying TVs. For folks that know better it's an unfortunate passing of an era. Meanwhile it'd be trivial to allow for HUD transparency options.