re: Samsung to end plasma TV production this year.

LCD is a dead end for black level, which is critical for good picture quality. The best LCDs are stuck at .01 to .02 fL for the minimum light output when they actually have to display an image (this is 10x the level of recently discontinued Panasonic plasmas), and the dimming strategies that improve on this introduce distracting blooming and don't always maintain detail. The edge-lit sets are a complete joke with zones half the width of the screen, the FALD sets never have nearly enough zones, and their price is an exponential function of the number of zones. Then there are the screen uniformity, flashlighting, poor motion, and other LCD issues.

OLED is the only hope for people who have a home theater or otherwise watch in a dark room and care about PQ. I'm glad I bought an ST60 last year. Best $1000 I ever spent on video by far.