# Best/biggest hdtv for no more than 1k. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 22, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-biggest-hdtv-for-no-more-than-1k/23423 "2007-01-22T13:04:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 39
**Author:** ![neurokinetik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/neurokinetik/32/7270_2.png) [@neurokinetik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neurokinetik)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-biggest-hdtv-for-no-more-than-1k/23423/39 "2007-01-23T18:13:21Z")
> [@audios](#): > > subaru 2.2l motors kinda suck long term right? dont really hold their seals past a certain mileage, compression, blah blah blah…so since all combustion engines run on that technology then they must all suck long term right? You have a point there, but in your example, we are also dealing with two known quantities… With plasma TVs (and DLP, too), people can’t really give a MTBT number because they have not been around long enough to figure it out. LCDs have been around for quite a while longer. Look how long it has taken for technology to come up with something better than a CRT (and some would argue that were it not for size limitations, a CRT still works better than any of the new technologies in most aspects). Early adoptors of plasma are taking a gamble that they will withstand the test of time. I’m taking the under on that bet… > [@walter](#): > > I’d put more faith in the consistancy and quality of a tv over a $30,000 car. Know what kind of miracle it is that systems that complex continue to function as long as they do? I’d agree with that statement, especially working in the automotive industry, but you want to talk apples and apples, how about comparing a CRT-based TV to a car. Both have been around long enough to establish some trends. Plasma TVs have not. Comparing a plasma TV to a car would require that car to be a hybrid… another technology whose longevity I don’t trust. 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/best-biggest-hdtv-for-no-more-than-1k/23423)._