Posted on 05/08/2009 1:26:11 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
SECAUCUS, NJ -- 05/07/09 -- Panasonic, a leader in High Definition technology, announced today that the critically-acclaimed, 103-inch Plasma Full High Definition 1080p Display -- the world's largest Plasma commercially available -- will now be priced at $50,000. When it debuted in December 2006, the made-to-order HD Display was priced at $69,999.95.
With widespread acclaim for its size and picture quality, Panasonic's 103-inch Plasma has become the industry's leading high-impact, large-format display for a wide range of commercial and home theater applications -- from digital signage and entertainment, to high-end home theater, command and control and higher education. Since its debut, more than 6,000 Panasonic 103-inch HD Displays have been installed worldwide, far exceeding initial expectations.
"The combination of advancements in Plasma production technology and the tremendous worldwide success of the Panasonic 103-inch Plasma HD Display over the last two plus years have enabled us to increase production as well as efficiencies, and thereby make it available to a wider range of customers at a lower price point," said Andrew Nelkin, President of Panasonic Professional Display Company. "When our 103-inch Plasma first debuted, it was a made-to-order product. It soon became obvious that in ultra-large screen sizes, nothing comes close to the Panasonic 103-inch Plasma in delivering crisp, clear, blur-free images in 1080p High Definition. Demand for the 103 exceeded our initial expectations, and its popularity continues."
The Panasonic 103-inch HD Plasma Display has been installed in a wide range of high-visibility commercial applications in the U.S. including:
-- NBC Network's Sunday Night Football studio -- NBC Network's 2009 Beijing Summer Olympics studio -- CBS Network's The Early Show set -- TNT Network's NBA Playoffs studio -- Sam's Town Hotel & Gambling Hall (Las Vegas, NV) -- Pechanga Resort and Casino (Temecula, CA) -- The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office's Inventors Hall of Fame (Alexandria, VA) -- New York's City Hall (New York, NY) -- East Coast Malls (White Plains, NY and Jersey City, NJ)
About the Panasonic 103-Inch Plasma -- The Panasonic 103-inch Full HD Plasma (TH-103PF10UK) delivers smooth, crisp motion images ideal for the fast pace of sports, action movies, and video games, truly making the TH-103PF10UK and its 7-1/2 ft. by 4 ft. of viewing space the ultimate home theater experience. It also includes incredible panel longevity with a 100,000-hour service life and is backed by Panasonic's 3-year warranty and world-class ProPlasma Concierge Service.
The TH-103PF10UK can support up to a 5 x 5 video wall natively -- the largest in the industry -- and also provides new video processing capabilities to further sharpen the image when displaying low resolution content or when zooming the image in video wall applications. Its new Portrait Zoom function lets you display one horizontal image across three vertically mounted 103-inch plasmas for an incredibly impactful visual of over 90 square feet.
About Panasonic Professional Display Company -- Based in Secaucus, N.J., Panasonic Professional Display Company, a market and technology leader in professional digital displays, is a Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, the principal North American subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation (NYSE: PC) and the hub of Panasonic's U.S. marketing, sales, service and R&D operations. Panasonic offers a wide-range of displays with the industry's best image quality, ideal for education, retail, boardroom or the ultimate home theater experience. Panasonic broadcast-quality production monitors with true color performance are an industry standard. For more information on Panasonic Professional Display Company, please visit www.panasonic.com/proplasma.
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At this size, I would expect 1080p to start showing its limitations. Any idea if/when they’ll get around to 1256p?
All I have to say, is thank heaven it’s out of reach for me.
If they would have come in at some insane price of say $10,000 or so, some part of me would have been saying, buy it, buy it. Now that part of me is saying, are you fricken kiddin’ me.
LOL
You mean they’re not in jail yet as enemies of the planet?
I believe the next step is 2160p. If I’m not mistaken, I believe there are already a few demo sets out there, not that you and I would run into them in the circles we run in. I could be wrong.
Check this out regarding 2160p...
That’s even better...now, they’ll have to start making Blu Rays in that resolution in a few years and we’ll all have to re-buy our favorite flicks, of course. Heh.
I am not that tech savy, but I would assume you grid together as many Plasma TVs as you wanted and have each of them play only a section of the whole image creating a screen as big as you could ever want, and with todays technology even get rid of the border inbetween each screen.
Market ready date of 2015 was mentioned, but I would have to believe if they have demos out now it won’t take that long to mass produce and get to market. OTOH, if an 82” 2160p demo set would be valued at 50k right now, we could be looking at 6k by 2015 by a Moore’s law type similarity of economics for these things. And I would expect LED or OLED technology instead of plasma.
I have that same disability. I am hearing the same voices, saying the same thing... LOL
The more I look at those numbers the more I realize what a bargain this might be.
I wonder if Obama will come out with a Cash for Crap program.
Heck, I’ll turn in the old set out of our guest room and the rest of you can keep paying the government to give me mo free stuff.
You could get an HD projector with a bigger image for a fraction of the price.
1080p on an 100 inch screen looks incredible. You can blow up an HD picture pretty large and it still looks incredible. IMAX does higher resolution though, 4096x2160, but that is for a 72 foot wide screen and that picture looks incredible.
I remember when flat panels, I think 42” or so, were $9999 at Costco.
I sure wasn’t buying, but I’m glad someone was.
All these items are an EMP risk. I own one piece of Vacuum tube equipment - a reciever - in case of an EMP attack.
Oh boy!
I’ve been waiting for the price to come down! ..../sarc
I had been thinking about buying one.
It’s just too hard to pull the trigger at $70K.
Maybe if it goes down to $50, I’ll go ahead and get one.
In the real world, give me a full HD projector and a Screen Innovations screen and I have duplicated the picture at 150” for under $20K.
There you go. Exactly right. It’s a racket isn’t it.
I think those demos, if they indeed exist are very rare. I believe I recall reading about one or perhaps a few.
I saw a small LED TV in a Sony store ...12" panel for $3k, a couple of years ago. It was spectacular, even considering its small size.
;-)
I have given it some thought.
Yes, me too.
Where would one put a 103 inch tv? LOL
I keep hearing a different voice saying: "If you even look like you want one of those you are DEAD".
I’m waiting until the price drops to $49,990.
Isn't that the standard in Japan already?
Mark, I really don’t know. Perhaps you’re on to something, but I can’t confirm it.
Funny you mentioned that.
I was at the store yesterday and was drooling over a 40"LED Samsung.(may have been a little smaller than that) Wonderful picture.
IIRC the price was about $3500.
An LED is on my shopping list. Just waiting for a 50+inch at $2500 or less. Maybe about a yr.
Tell you what, when I looked around a while ago, I found a place where they showed the screen sizes from HD all the way up to super HD.
Advanced HD is 2160. Four HD screens fit in that space.
The Super HD is 4320. Ouch! Sixteen HD screens would fit in that space. I forget the exact figure, but the width number is something like 7680.
Can you imagine how clear that sucker would be, if it was a 50 to 60 inch screen? Is it real or is it Memorex would be just about right. Amazing.
If they made a wall sized version, and you had one in your family room, and your relatives across the nation, had one, and you both could see the other person, it would be like being there with them when you used the devices.
You could rig it up with a table in front of each screen, and it would look just like you were having dinner together. The only problem would be when you wanted them to pass the potatoes.
The future is going to be amazing, if we don’t screw it up.
What about your car?
They have demo units at Best Buy. It’s an extremely nice picture. Being only 1” think at most, they will be much lighter, and with LEDs typically being very energy efficient, they will require less power than plasmas so I would expect this would be where the future is heading. Not to mention LEDs have a very long operating life (I hear the opposite is true of plasma displays)...
Well, our computer monitors can already just about handle that resolution so I’m thinking how long should it take? Hopefully sooner than 2015 but price wise it may take that long for people to be able to afford one.
At some point, it becomes cheaper to just invite live acts into the house.
120” image in your living room with a Netflix/Blockbuster account, never suffer through the public theater experience again. $15/mo for as many dvd’s as you can watch, vs $15 ticket for a single ticket, plus snacks. If you have a family, it’s a great bargain.
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