42" Plasma Monitor

[rcjordan]

just dropped to $2799.
[gateway.com...]

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Anybody made a monitor out of one of these yet?

[Hawkgirl]

My sister bought one of these not too long ago and I do believe she never gets to use it for TV viewing because the husband likes to play his video games on the big screen ... ;) Does that count?

[rcjordan]

>count

No, sorry. That uses different jacks.

[PeterHo]

In Japan many apartments include a plasma tv, which makes it more attractive. They "only" add the price of the plasma tv to the price of the house (which often is above $100000), that dwarfes the plasma tv price.

[rcjordan]

I want to jack it into a cheap desktop and serve real estate ads (all html) in a store window or kiosk.

[oilman]

>>I want to jack it into a cheap laptop and serve real estate ads

one of my clients (a local temp agency) did something similar - they had a nice cabinet built in the display window - the cabinet housed 2 19" monitors that rotated the current job openings - it was very effective.

[lawman]

I'm waiting for it to drop to $2699. :)

lawman

[rcjordan]

> drop to

I'm figuring they'll be $1900 after Christmas.

[choster]

There are still problems of fading ("false contouring") and burn-in on plasma screens, especially when viewing high-intensity images for long periods of time-- certainly with video games, maybe not so bad for ads. 'Course for me, the sliding scale of perfect quality and perfect cost is still too high on both ends.

[lazerzubb]

RC i haven't looked at the specs of this one, some big screens have so you can split the screen in to 2 tv's, so you can show a movie on half the screen, and ads on the rest, those are quite cool, and it draws attention too.