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Ok. I have sony bravia too guys... only HD 1366x768 not full HD 1920x1080.
Plasma is available in full HD and was first released by panasonic in Aus. around september last year.
Whether to go HD or full HD will depend on what type of viewing yo do... it all comes down to SCALING.
for example a dvd uses approx 720 line images. If your tv has 768 resolution then its a virtual direct display (no scaling involved) however if you feed in a full HD image it must downscale from 1080 to fit 768. This will still give a good quality picture.
Going the other way with a standard picture (approx 576 line image) and feeding it to a screen with 1080 resolution involves a large amount of scaling to make the image fit and will show just how poor standard tv and foxtel broadcasts are. ie look pretty crap.
So, if you watch mostly foxtel and the occasional dvd go for a HD 1366x768 panel.
If you play ps3 and want to be blu ray and future proof go for 1920x1080 as this is where all development is currently heading.
Doobs... what u smokin???
Lg do not make most lcd and plasma panels. How do you explain the fact that plasma was developed by four brands... mostly FUJITSU,HITACHI, PANASONIC and NEC. Fujitsu were at one point supplying panels to 70% of the market. True that sony did not make their own plasma... it was a hitachi panel.
Sony do make their own LCD tvs. They have a joint venture with samsung in korea to produce native lcd panels, then they are shipped to sonys facilities in japan for X and XBR series, or malaysia for other series where sony add their electronics etc.
Further to this approx four months ago pioneer announced they could no longer compete in plasma only markets and are now purchasing SHARP lcd panels (from sharps kameyama plant in Japan) and rebadging them pioneer. They are now also buying plasma panels from panasonic and rebadging them.
Sony are also looking at this possibility with regard to the japanese lcd panels from sharp.
With regard to image burn on plasma... yes it is possible but highly unlikely with any late generation panels.. earlier ones not so good. I have personally left a static image on a pansonic plasma in our shop for 9 hours straight which resulted in slight image retention or ghost image. After running said panel for another couple of hours on normal tv this has gone. However if you are a big gaming fan I suggest LCD.
sorry for long post guys... could probably keep going!! cheers Martin.