as someone who works in electronics retail, i can see that there is distinct consumer demand for energy efficient TVs, so laws like these are IMHO completely obnoxious.
if the tendency was that TVs were getting less and less energy efficient, i can understand such laws, but they just aren't.
all these laws are going to do is just add one more blow to the chin of the nearly defeated plasma. it's bad enough that i'm not going to be able to sell KUROs anymore, are you going to take my VIERAs away too??
If you're the one-in-a-million salesman that actually pushes plasma, you might want to start lobbying your fellow salesmen, in addition to the customer. Seems like there are a whole lot of sheep out there without a shepherd, and they all believe what they heard 10 years ago. I appreciate your efforts though, as I hope plasma survives long enough till something better than LCD comes along.
haha, yeah, I actually do push plasmas to my coworkers as well -- of the 6 of us, 3 are pro-plasma, 2 are neutral, and 1 is pro-lcd... and the pro-lcd guy's only reason is that they are "brighter"
one thing that I don't think many people realize, is that most CONSUMERS think that lcd is better -- at least 80% of our plasma sales are uphill battles, so earning the trust of our customers is paramount -- let's face it, during heavy traffic times, customers aren't going to get that sort of one-on-one attention, and they're typically going to walk our the door with exactly what they asked for, not what is better
trust me, I'm extremely fearful about the current state of HDTV. we get more and more customers that demand lcd every day, and think that i'm pulling a fast one on them when i recommend plasma -- how frustrated do you think I get when that happens? it's exasperating!
oh well, Panasonic has some fantastic offerings this year, here's to hoping that they crush the competition!
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AisforAwesome @ Apr 11th 2009 1:52AM
as someone who works in electronics retail, i can see that there is distinct consumer demand for energy efficient TVs, so laws like these are IMHO completely obnoxious.
if the tendency was that TVs were getting less and less energy efficient, i can understand such laws, but they just aren't.
all these laws are going to do is just add one more blow to the chin of the nearly defeated plasma. it's bad enough that i'm not going to be able to sell KUROs anymore, are you going to take my VIERAs away too??
John @ Apr 11th 2009 3:26AM
Well, I just can't help myself...
If you're the one-in-a-million salesman that actually pushes plasma, you might want to start lobbying your fellow salesmen, in addition to the customer. Seems like there are a whole lot of sheep out there without a shepherd, and they all believe what they heard 10 years ago. I appreciate your efforts though, as I hope plasma survives long enough till something better than LCD comes along.
AisforAwesome @ Apr 12th 2009 1:21PM
haha, yeah, I actually do push plasmas to my coworkers as well -- of the 6 of us, 3 are pro-plasma, 2 are neutral, and 1 is pro-lcd... and the pro-lcd guy's only reason is that they are "brighter"
one thing that I don't think many people realize, is that most CONSUMERS think that lcd is better -- at least 80% of our plasma sales are uphill battles, so earning the trust of our customers is paramount -- let's face it, during heavy traffic times, customers aren't going to get that sort of one-on-one attention, and they're typically going to walk our the door with exactly what they asked for, not what is better
trust me, I'm extremely fearful about the current state of HDTV. we get more and more customers that demand lcd every day, and think that i'm pulling a fast one on them when i recommend plasma -- how frustrated do you think I get when that happens? it's exasperating!
oh well, Panasonic has some fantastic offerings this year, here's to hoping that they crush the competition!