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  Panasonic Extends Life Of Plasma To 100,000 Hours

By TWICE Wire Service | Wednesday | 08/08/2007

Panasonic which recently rolled out the controversial advertising campaign claiming that plasma is better than LCD TVs has now gone one step further by being the first company to extended the life of its consumer 1080p plasma displays to 100,000 hours from 60,000. This puts Panasonic way ahead of any other plasma manufacturer.

The two-thirds gain in "life to half brightness" appears in the company's current 2007 model lineup, already available in stores, a spokesman said. If a household watches six hours of TV per day, it would take almost 46 years for the display to dim to half it original brightness.

Announced specifications for competing brands cite typical 60,000-hour half lives, although one company's lab data shows 100,000, said William Schindler, electrical engineering VP for Panasonic Display Laboratory of America.

Panasonic is also studying other improvements to future consumer-market 1080p plasmas, including the ability to accept a native 24Hz video signal from high-definition disc players. Panasonic's current consumer plasma displays accept 60Hz signals after a high-def disc player converts the 24Hz content to 60Hz in a process called 3:2 pulldown.

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