Originally Posted By: KrisZ
...What you are describing is a phase out by another competing technology, not necessarily a better technology at that. History is full of such examples where the market chose one technology over the other where the "looser" was actually superior to the "winner"...
Not only with physical products. Microsoft is a prime example of how the earliest OS's were best and subsequent ones progressively became vague, user-unfriendy, bulky (in the sense that more storage space is needed for their installation) and tend to hide consumer-useful fuctions.
I'm bumping this thread, because it comes closest to defining the plasma-based monitor which is acting up. Specifically, I bought it used, late last spring and have noticed that with progressively cooler season changes, frequent turning it on and off to get the picture to hold has to be countered, by warming it up near the heating radiator, if a video isn't constantly playing. The warmer it gets, the less frequency in turning it on and off is needed. Appearantly, it's one of those early transitional LED-plasma combos which replaced the old picture tube types, before the flatter LED ones appeared.
My question is, do these monitor types progressively fail to the point where they will never function, regardlass of the amount of external warming or is it possible to feasably repair these? I bought it used for next to nothing. Thus, I can write it off. But, once it warms up, it runs fine and I know what I've got. The next one might not have the longevity this one had and despite being an economical flat exclusively LED type, typical of newer items is the progressively lower general quality of those things
