103 inch Panasonic Plasma !!

[caesar1]

So my 50 inch cost roughly $3,500.00. Since a 103 inch is basically 4 50 inch screens put together, this should cost only about $15,000.00!


http://ces.engadget.com/2006/01/06/give-them-an-inch-matsushita-ups-the-ante-with-103-inch-plasma/


http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/1/Panasonic6.JPG

http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/pana%20big%20tv.jpg

[madshi]

[QUOTE=caesar1]So my 50 inch cost roughly $3,500.00. Since a 103 inch is basically 4 50 inch screens put together, this should cost only about $15,000.00![/QUOTE]
Too bad it doesn't work this way.

The problem is that the yield goes down, the bigger the display gets. So bigger is more expensive than just the added screen area. Also think about much more complicated transport. Finally 103" inch plasmas are most likely to be sold much much MUCH less often than 50". Because of that the 50" can be much cheaper.

[wasting]

i'd rather have a 55" SED. :D

[ohbrian]

I think I saw the price of that thing somewhere around $130,000.

[caesar1]

[QUOTE=ohbrian]I think I saw the price of that thing somewhere around $130,000.[/QUOTE]

Actually, you guys all missed that I was joking. I know the 50 inches cost what they do, due to mass production.

Also, this 103 inch is a "proto type" according to the articles from CES. So it isn't being sold anywhere yet. I'm sure if it was, it would probably be well over $100,000.00

[PooperScooper]

How much that puppy weigh? :)

larry

[rrhomes]

Well not forever, all of the plasmas, SED's and LCD's are headed for 110inch+ and Bigger basicaly they will fill 80%-90% of a wall. Give it 5-8 years and 110inch+ will be $5k - $10K all of thes plasma's started at $30,000, not long from now $999 will be the ave price. Everybody wants big and that where the market will head in the next 5 years the protypes aren't just for the hell of it. SED will be able to make a 120inch pretty easy but since it will all but dominate OLED which is still aways out, the SED will probably be the highest priced. 110+ is were it's all headed. 5+ years from now it will be affordable for those willing to pay a little above the median pcire of the market.

[TheSkeptiks]

Am I alone in saying that I do NOT want to watch 103" all the time. I would love it for movies and possibly video games, but I don't think I want to watch Jeopardy, or Court TV or any sitcom on a 103" screen.

Yes, that 103" plasma is pretty sweet, but I just don't want it or need it.

For normal tv viewing I think the 50" is the perfect size. Right now I own a 43" Pioneer.

Just my opinion...I thinks it's cool, but I don't want it.

[dazz87]

[QUOTE=PooperScooper]How much that puppy weigh? :)

larry[/QUOTE]

I was at CES this past weekend. The panel weight about 545 lbs! The Panasonic Rep said the panel will be available sometime this fall. Didn't give a price tho. It looked absolutely amazing.

[rrhomes]

[QUOTE=TheSkeptiks]Am I alone in saying that I do NOT want to watch 103" all the time. I would love it for movies and possibly video games, but I don't think I want to watch Jeopardy, or Court TV or any sitcom on a 103" screen.

Yes, that 103" plasma is pretty sweet, but I just don't want it or need it.

For normal tv viewing I think the 50" is the perfect size. Right now I own a 43" Pioneer.

Just my opinion...I thinks it's cool, but I don't want it.[/QUOTE]


Good Point but most people are going to own 3-4-5 sets, where in the past it was like 2.3 per-household. In the furture most kids will have flat screens in ther bedrooms and pc monitors will all be headed to 16:9 or 16:10. But most homes will get a huge screen. Personally if the pictures is perfect I can watch the news on a bigscreen.

[millerwill]

[QUOTE=rrhomes]Well not forever, all of the plasmas, SED's and LCD's are headed for 110inch+ and Bigger basicaly they will fill 80%-90% of a wall. Give it 5-8 years and 110inch+ will be $5k - $10K all of thes plasma's started at $30,000, not long from now $999 will be the ave price. Everybody wants big and that where the market will head in the next 5 years the protypes aren't just for the hell of it. SED will be able to make a 120inch pretty easy but since it will all but dominate OLED which is still aways out, the SED will probably be the highest priced. 110+ is were it's all headed. 5+ years from now it will be affordable for those willing to pay a little above the median pcire of the market.[/QUOTE]

Well, I certainly hope you are right; unlike Theskeptiks, I would LOVE to have a 104" screen on my wall (would still leave about 2 ft on either side of the set to the two side walls--perfect fit!). From about 13 ft away one would have the 1.5 (view distance)-to-(screen diag) ratio that HD was designed for--again a perfect fit for my room. (And I don't want to watch Jeopardy, or Court TV on ANY size set!) Think how super it would be to see sports on such a screen--wow!

[rrhomes]

[QUOTE=millerwill]Well, I certainly hope you are right; unlike Theskeptiks, I would LOVE to have a 104" screen on my wall (would still leave about 2 ft on either side of the set to the two side walls--perfect fit!). From about 13 ft away one would have the 1.5 (view distance)-to-(screen diag) ratio that HD was designed for--again a perfect fit for my room. (And I don't want to watch Jeopardy, or Court TV on ANY size set!) Think how super it would be to see sports on such a screen--wow![/QUOTE]

:) No hope needed they are on the way. Only question is how long till they get to <$7,500, my guess is 5 years. But there is no doubt that much higher resolution displays and 110+inches are both the future. Manufactures look for a easy sales pitch's to the end buyer and there are no two that scream buy me like Bigger Size and Higher resolution. Regardless of the preceived vs real merrits of these two qualities, the ave joe buying public will see them as something they can understand. Higher Resolution is coming for everthing from PC Monitors to Front projection to camcorders to the every increasing Digital Cameras that are already are 8,000,000 million pixels+, and on and on they will climb because as 16,000,000 pixel camera will set on the self when a 32,000,000 pixel camera is right beside it for the same price or a little more.

[mgburton]

I have one question. What is the friggin deal with the chick wearing red next to the TV? I think there's some contest where if you can figure that out, you win something. I figured it out, she's there to irritate the crap out of me!!

[millerwill]

rrhomes: Well, I'm an average Joe--I'll certainly spring for 104" if it's less than $7500!

mgburton: She's presumably there to give perspecitve on the size--but you knew that!

[bw03]

I wonder how much wattage that thing uses. 2000??

[Joe_R]

Hook it up to the main heat duct and it could heat the entire house in the winter.

[inky blacks]

Here's a link to a picture of the 103" next to a 50".

http://www.digit-life.com/news.html?05/33/92

Quite a difference.

IB

[caesar1]

[QUOTE=mgburton]I have one question. What is the friggin deal with the chick wearing red next to the TV? I think there's some contest where if you can figure that out, you win something. I figured it out, she's there to irritate the crap out of me!![/QUOTE]

You lose!

I copied in that picture to this thread myself, so I know the answer. She was brought on stage to provide perspective for photographers of the 103 inch plasma.

"After the event, we get one last look at the 103-inch 1080p PDP with someone next to it for scale. We want one; the PDP, that is, not the person."

http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/04/live-from-ces-panasonic-press-conference/

[kingfrog]

[QUOTE=TheSkeptiks]Am I alone in saying that I do NOT want to watch 103" all the time. I would love it for movies and possibly video games, but I don't think I want to watch Jeopardy, or Court TV or any sitcom on a 103" screen.

Yes, that 103" plasma is pretty sweet, but I just don't want it or need it.

For normal tv viewing I think the 50" is the perfect size. Right now I own a 43" Pioneer.

Just my opinion...I thinks it's cool, but I don't want it.[/QUOTE]

No you are not and thats why I spent $1300 and bought a MovieTime FP. 102 inches when I want it. The screen rolls down in front of the 42" plasma. That little FP also has a built in digitally connected DVD player and has a carrying case as to be able to move it anywhere. Garage, Outdoors, a friends house for the Super Bowl.

I for one see no reason to own any bigger then a 50" Plasma. The cost, weight, seviceability is just not worth it for me to own anything bigger when there are great front projector portable table top choices for that real immersive Home Theater experience. Mine stores in the coffee table and sets up in less then 5 min. BOTH solutions cost less then $3000.

[irkuck]

[QUOTE=bw03]I wonder how much wattage that thing uses. 2000??[/QUOTE]

Right question at last. We people from energy wastinglands have to get life at last :mad: 100+" inch panels consuming between 2 to 3000 W and getting cheap is utmost irresponsibility: environment, resources, future generations.

[Berryrice]

That 103" would suck to move into my family room...probably have to cut out the deck door to get it in. It weighs more that the measly 40" sony CRT XBR!!! So now who's complaining about CRT's being heavy:) Maybe they can produce it in pieces so the comman man can get it in his basement family room by 2010!

Cheers