Buying a Plasma TV - What About Cost?

So you are thinking about buying a plasma TV. Are you concerned about the price? Do not be. In the mid-90s, you could not even touch one for less than 10,000 dollars. Now you can get one for around 1,000 dollars. Why is this? There are a couple of reasons for this reduction in price.

1. First, supply and demand. As production process has improved, the number of plasma televisions produced has greatly improved. Therefore, as supply increases, greater than demand, prices come down.

2. A second reason is that the production process has improved. In the 90's the defect rate at time of production was close to 50%, now the defect rate is around 1%, a great improvement. This also feeds into point one by allowing the supply to increase.

Having recently moved from North Pole, Alaska to Reno, Nevada, we sold all our appliances before we moved. Which means when we arrived in Reno, NV we had to buy a new TV. My wife and I were quite surprised at the reduction in cost. Therefore, we did a number of internet searches for the best one and at a cheap cost. We settled on a 50" plasma HDTV for less than 1250 dollars.

One thing I had to learn is what the term 1080p means. 1080 is the number of vertical lines or the number of horizontal lines on the screen. The "p" stands for progressive scan, meaning the lines are not interlaced. Interlaced is old technology used on cathode ray tubes (vacuum tubes).

Want to see what my wife and I settled on and a our experience with it? Plus here is a link to my blog on our experience in living in Alaska. http://surpriseinalaska.blogspot.com/

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