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Nothing happened to them. Nothing ever happens to them! There's a now twenty year old Panasonic still hanging on my wall that refuses to stop working flawlessly and thus allow me to guiltlessly replace its 480 fat & smugly glowing rows of pixels with something a little more modern.

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If you're looking for a reason to replace it you could probably work out how much it's costing you in energy (and possibly extra AC workload if you're in a hot country!) vs an OLED

Saving few bucks to degrade viewing experience may not be a good choice for most people. You know you can save 100% when living in the tent in the forest

A QD-OLED (or even a normal modern OLED) is probably a better viewing experience than an SD plasma. The issue is that the LCDs that were dominant for a while weren't.

I guess you aren't in Europe currently. Right now I'm paying ¢71 per kWh. So that plasma TV would easily cost tens of $ every month.

480p? I mean do you need anymore reasons?

If you are fine with 480p, you may want to check your eyes. You may need glasses or new glasses.

It's kind of a trolley problem: I'm not "fine" with 480p, but also not fine with throwing away stuff that still works. That seems to mean the status quo wins until the thing stops working.

I have to disagree. 480p on the web might awful, but a well encoded DVD still looks really good

On a small screen it's not extremely bad but you lose a lot of information.

DVDs are natively 480. There isn't any more information on the disc to lose.

Would it be nice to have a 4k transfer from the original 35mm? Yes. Can you get that from the film licensees? Not necessarily.

He might have the common "mounted the TV over the fireplace" affliction which means it's so far away you can't tell the difference.

It must be a very big room and a very small TV to not tell the difference. Or bad vision.

Those of us who grew up in the analogue TV era are simply used to it.

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