[RFI] Samsung Pulls Plug on Plasma Production

[Roger (K8RI)]

On 7/1/2014 4:26 PM, Dale J. wrote:
> Ding-dong the wicked witch is dead.
>
> Hopefully, those still in service will fail soon.

Whats the average MTBF on plasma displays. The LED powered displays are 
quite long lived although I know "Quite long lived" is more than a 
little vague.  If I understand correctly, the life of a plasma display 
is no where near that of the LED which is an LCD with an LED  for the 
light source.

Some of those Plasma displays may be around for a very long time. The 
old CRTs lasted a very long time depending on use conditions. They 
would, like most vacuum tubes, lose emission based on hours of use. That 
affected brightness which could be compensated for, up to a point.  When 
we switched to digital, our CRTs were both over 20 years old.  We have a 
12 year old 40" up stairs and a new, 40" wide screen, smart TV down 
stairs. The new smart TV cost a little less than 10% of the older LCD up 
stairs.  As they are both on satellite even the older ones are now 
"smart" and both work off the internet and my network.  So they should 
feed the computers which are also connected to the ham rigs in the house 
and shop via CAT6 cables.  They also run on WiFi high and low bands as 
do some of my keyboards.

Lap tops and book/tablets as well talk to the same router with no 
interference in either direction...So far.

So far, I have never received interference from either TV set, nor have 
they shown any interference from the ham stations on 160 through 440.  I 
run the legal limit, 160 through 10.  I did run 800W on 6 with no problem.

My 2-meter HTs can hear the computers when they are set directly on the 
computer cases, but nothing right next to the CAT6.

73

Roger (K8RI)


>
> Tnx
> Dale, k9vuj
>
>
> On 01, Jul 2014, at 15:08, Gerry (WD5AAM) <pepper-1 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I believe that this just leaves LG that will most likely will follow suit.
>>
>> Plasma is dead!
>>
>> http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/01/us-samsung-sdi-plasma-idUKKBN0F62W620140701
>>
>> http://www.courant.com/business/sns-rt-us-samsung-sdi-plasma-20140630,0,1882244.story
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gerry - WD5AAM
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