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Nashou66
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HogPilot
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| Nashou66 wrote: | No They sold the rights for the Kuro stuff to panasonic I am sure. But now Samsung has a new panel out and they say they are continuing into Plasma research for the future. No plans to drop it. 
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Pioneer sold the Elite brand name to Sharp. They only sold some of their Kuro tech/patents/research to Panasonic.
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Nashou66
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| HogPilot wrote: | | Nashou66 wrote: | No They sold the rights for the Kuro stuff to panasonic I am sure. But now Samsung has a new panel out and they say they are continuing into Plasma research for the future. No plans to drop it.
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Pioneer sold the Elite brand name to Sharp. They only sold some of their Kuro tech/patents/research to Panasonic. |
I knew it was something!
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Jeremy112
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Damn pioneer, just HAD to go and ruin the worlds best plasma displays....
I don't think they sold their entire Elite brand to sharp, unless sharp is producing all of their elite line of receivers/blu ray etc...
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HogPilot
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| Jeremy112 wrote: | Damn pioneer, just HAD to go and ruin the worlds best plasma displays....
I don't think they sold their entire Elite brand to sharp, unless sharp is producing all of their elite line of receivers/blu ray etc... |
Correct, it was just the Elite brand for their display division.
What's really depressing is that Pioneer demoed their ultra-thin plasmas and their absolute black (zero luminance) displays the year before they went out of business. Had the world economy not taken a sh*t in 08/09, we may have seen those come to market. I'm sure they would have been sold at the standard Kuro Elite prices, but I personally would have paid it for that kind of display. Zero luminance blacks is one of the holy grails of display tech - and here we are 5 years later waiting patiently for OLED to deliver them instead of plasma.
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Jeremy112
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Screw OLED, its nice yes, far superior than LCD, but I still like plasma, it has that CRT like quality, which is why I am a proud owner of a 61" pioneer professional display. You'll have to kill me then pry my cold dead hands off of it to get it from me too.
I really do wish Pioneer made displays still. It was the one thing I think they were actually better at than any other company for display tech. It sure surpassed their audio stuff IMO...
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HogPilot
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Yeah, I'm expecting my 111FD and 151FD will be hanging for another 5 years before I find a suitable replacement, which will most likely be an OLED display of at least 60".
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