H_Prestige
Banned
That means it's as good as dead in the mass market, 4k is a huge and costly engineering challenge for pdp and is going to be the next great marketing push by TV and film producers. A whole line of tv's without a key feature going forward...all in a dwindling market year after year. I don't envy panasonics position
Why do they need to continue r&d when their current plasma tech is so far ahead of the curve? LCD is no threat in picture quality ever since manufacturers stopped doing local dimming. OLED is the only thing that can surpass plasma and Panasonic and Sony are in that together.
Stopping r&d does not mean they will stop making plasmas. 4K is still a ways off, and I'm not sure it will be the next 1080p anyway. Remember when 3D was supposed to be the next big thing for TVs?