Help a guy out? Renovating home theater system after 10 years and have a few questions.

Panasonic VT60 plasma - now that is a fantastic TV - pity they stopped making plasma - I guess the movement to UHD killed it as plasma was often more limited in resolution despite the most amazing PQ.

Hi gdhal,

     Okay,  you're correct, I did violate our agreement. 
      In my defense, I do admit your denial of OLED technology being an important contributor, along with HDR, to the pq of hdtv and this exact same denial being the #1 example in the history of mankind of a minority opinion being on the wrong side of history/truth did strike me as an ideal method to place your misguided minority viewpoint in the proper historical perspective. 
     Honestly, though, my impression that your #1 ranking on this list of disgraced minority opinions was also somewhat humorous was likely the main reason I actually disclosed this Official Top 10 List and violated our agreement.
     I had to weigh keeping my word to you versus speaking the truth and informing our fellow members about your #1 ranking on The Official Top 10 List of The Most Unreasonable Things a Minority of Individuals Actually Thinks or Thought Throughout History.   But it was my choice and, therefore, I must plead guilty by reason of truth telling.

I hope you can appreciate my decision given my dilemma,
  Tim  

Panasonic plasma tv’s do indeed have great picture quality - I am very happy to have one in HD, so no limitation in resolution as long as I don’t watch UHD content. For now, I think the only reason to upgrade one to an UHD TV is if you have access to significant quanitites of UHD content. Like many, I don’t, so I am not upgrading to an UHD TV.
I hope my plasma screen will live until UHD content will be readily available, and then I will upgrade, of course.

Hi willemj,

     I’m in no hurry to upgrade my Panasonic plasma, either. I believe you’re in Europe from some of your prior posts I’ve read. I’m in the states and, as you may know, there’s been more and more 4K content available and we should see some HDR content soon.
     Have you seen the LG or Sony 65" OLED hdtvs with 4K and HDR yet? I’ve seen them in person and both are extremely good with 4K and HDR recorded demo content being played.
     However, if your plasma is 1080p and you watch it from over 3ft away like I do, I don’t think either of us would discern much improvement going to 4K but I had no trouble seeing the large improvement the OLEDs have over  plasmas with HDR; they both have a wider color palette and an even more vibrant color intensity capacity than my plasma. The OLEDs also seemed to be able to get slightly brighter and run cooler than my VT 60 plasma.
     The LG and Sony 4K and HDR OLED hdtvs are the only sets that I’ve seen thus far that I consider superior to our Panasonic plasmas.
     Panasonic and Samsung stopped producing plasmas because they realized a few years ago that manufacturing 4k versions of plasma panels would cost too much and they’d need to be priced much higher than the 1080p plasmas they were then making. I would think they may be back into emissive display hdtvs in the near future.
     I’m very thankful that OLED technology was able to pick up right where plasma left off. OLED has similar independently controlled emissive pixels, almost perfect black levels, high contrast levels, extremely good motion performance and beautiful picture quality just like plasma has while also being able to economically incorporate new technology such as 4K and HDR.
     It’s comforting to know that there’s now a good replacement for our plasma sets just in case something unexpected happens to them. It’s also good to know OLED with HDR is a constant option as an upgrade to plasma that only seems destined to get more attractive as their prices continue to decrease.

Tim

Where the heck did the OP, vasubandu, go? He hasn't replied since his original post.  I think we're doing okay without him but to whose benefit?