The Sony PFM42V1 is an older model and only supports up to 852x480 resolution good enough to watch TV but may not be good enough for DVD if your friend's standard is on the high side! At $24800 that's not cheap though! Your friend may want to check out the Philips outlet stores in Hong Kong and they are running their annual clearance sale (almost two weeks now). There was one 42"lasma left selling for only $13999 (852x480) in Causeway Bay early last week I chose the 37" Plasma with the Pixel plus technology for $16999 the Philips pixel plus technology supports up to 1280x1024 you can easily see the difference when watching DVD! Both models used external TV tuner and I got one from Philips for only $1000 extra with lots of functions and features.
Stephen as I said I bought it from Philip in Causeway Bay they have another outlet in TST and the large one in Hopewell Centre Wan Chai. Worth to take a look if they have anything left from the annual clearance sale. So far I'm quite please with the unit I tried with my laptop tonight with excellent clarity and high resolution.
Some are 陳列品 and some are not the 陳列品 carries only 6 months Philips waranty with option to extend. Mine was a 陳列品 but looks like it's never been touched and the manager told me that some of the 陳列品 were hardly used for display including the one I picked. One of my friends just bought a brand new Samsung 42" Plasma and had to replaced the unit 3 times because of different problems! Knocked on wood mine has been excellent so far and I can't complain with what I paid for and the technology & quality I'm getting!
Agreed it's a chance that I took. These plasma TV can last 60000 hours which is equivalent to about 6.85 years running non-stop assuming that a typical display unit runs nonstop 24 hours a day for a year it still have close to 6 years non-stop round the clock usage that's a lot of life left for TV and DVD watching especially I only spend about 4 to 5 hours max every day. I'm sure before my Plasma hits its lifespan I would change to newer technology by then!
That depends on the makers and the technology that's true for the earlier generation of Plasma TV but not the latest generation. Even if worst case 40000 hours is a long time away and I have no desire to spend that many hours in front of a Plasma TV! Frankly these Plasma will be so cheap in a few years as they will all be made in China so why spend so much money get a good deal now and save the difference and buy a better one in a few years! BTW: I seriously doubt any display unit ran for 24 hours nonstop for a year and nice thing about display units besides the low price is that it had all the initial problems and bugs fixed.
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lasma left selling for only $13999 (852x480) in Causeway Bay early last week I chose the 37" Plasma with the Pixel plus technology for $16999 the Philips pixel plus technology supports up to 1280x1024 you can easily see the difference when watching DVD! Both models used external TV tuner and I got one from Philips for only $1000 extra with lots of functions and features.
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