Ever seen this Apple monitor before?

[techknight]

Unfortunately, I am not part of the LG fanboy crowd as we have here. 

I have mixed feelings, and have had mixed results. Especially the plasma TVs. They were/are the worst. 

Now washers/dryers it varies. But I have seen the control boards fail in such mysterious ways, almost always the motor control being the one that does. 

 

[Paralel]

Plasma TV's were a flawed technology to start with. I was never a fan of them, full stop. OLEDs remind me of plasma. Hopefully they can work the inherent issues out of OLEDs, but I'm not hopeful, all the big TV guys seem to have abandoned them.

I hope the control board on mine doesn't fail. This is the first "High tech" washer I've ever owned. The one it replaced was ancient, solid state, no real "electronics" of which to speak. Not necessarily a bad thing. Less parts to fail.

As much as I am a fan of IT, I don't really like it being added where it provides little, if any, benefit over a model of the same device without it. Just more crap to fail.

As a few of us have said before, this IoT coming up is going to be a real boondoggle. Cramming IT and connectivity into things that don't need it. Its a solution looking for a problem that doesn't actually exist.

 

[CC_333]

Paralel: I agree wholeheartedly! When our washer and drier were having issues, we were thinking of replacing them, but after seeing what was available (basically nothing but High Efficiency models crammed full of superfluous electronics and useless-to-us features), I decided I wanted to repair what we have instead. The drier is a pleasure to deal with, with the only electrical parts being a timer mechanism, a few switches, a heating element, and a motor, with maybe some "glue" (capacitors, resistors, etc.) tying them together. The washer is similar, but a bit more complex, probably due to the wider range of functions (wash, rinse, spin, etc.). Because of this, repairing them was very easy.

<rant>

This whole IoT stuff is stupid. Why do I want to control, for instance, my refrigerator from my phone (don't know if it's a thing yet or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is)? Controlling HVAC systems, maybe. But the Refrigerator?!

</rant>

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[HAL2001]

Plasma TV's were a flawed technology to start with. 

Wow. In my opinion, it's still the best technology for a flat television to this day.

 

[68krazy]

I don't know much about them from a technical standpoint, but I really like some of the later (2008+) Panasonic plasmas.

 

[omidimo]

Plasma was like Betamax, a great technology ruined by bad execution. Eventually the technology hit a great sweet spot with the Pioneer Kuro, but by then it was too late. 

Now we are at 4K HDR OLEDs, just waiting for content to catch up, maybe in 2018. 

 

[EvilCapitalist]

Plasma TV's were a flawed technology to start with. I was never a fan of them, full stop. OLEDs remind me of plasma. Hopefully they can work the inherent issues out of OLEDs, but I'm not hopeful, all the big TV guys seem to have abandoned them.

While they had some problems early on like burn in with the very early models (like pre-2006) and were heavier than LCDs (so wall mounting, which lots of people wanted to do was more difficult) they were the superior TV display system up until very recently when LED backlit, local-dimming models finally caught up short of going to a very expensive projector.

Wow. In my opinion, it's still the best technology for a flat television to this day.

Yes.  I'll be very sad when I have to get rid of my Plasmas.

I don't know much about them from a technical standpoint, but I really like some of the later (2008+) Panasonic plasmas.

After Pioneer stopped making TVs, they were the standard by which all other TVs were judged.

Plasma was like Betamax, a great technology ruined by bad execution. Eventually the technology hit a great sweet spot with the Pioneer Kuro, but by then it was too late. 

Now we are at 4K HDR OLEDs, just waiting for content to catch up, maybe in 2018. 

I would agree with this assessment.  Like Betamax they were more expensive than competing technology and had a few tripping points starting out, but most everyone who bought them loved them.  Back in my consumer electronics days I would see good Plasmas (aka, not the cheap entry level junk) get sold a lot less often than LCDs but I also saw them almost never get returned.  We used to get LCDs returned all the time because of motion blur issues (STILL a problem!  120Hz/240Hz just makes everything look like a cheap soap opera) and poor viewing angles (no longer a problem) and we'd always suggest a Plasma instead (which pissed off our Sony rep to no end).

4K is nice for computers but for TVs it somewhat silly at this point due to a lack of content.  Aside from a handful of things on streaming services there's just not any content.  Heck, we still don't have native 1080p content as the standard yet, it's still 720p/1080i.