Optoma’s 50″ plasma HDTV has an MSRP of $3,749. For the dough you get 1366 x 768 pixels, which works out to about a third of a cent per pixel. Is it worth just over a third of a cent per pixel? Depends. It doesn’t have an HDMI input, just a DVI/HDCP one. While adequate, it’s not what we expect of a display these days. Things get better, though, so maybe that 1/3 cent isn’t wasted. The good news is that 1/3 cent per pixel is actually in the affordable range when you’re talking plasma.

The Optoma PD50A plasma television is, as we mentioned, quite possibly the least expensive 50-inch plasma display on the market (street price). For users with digital sources it’s almost a no-brainer, unless you’re a stickler for D65 color temperature and a perfect color profile. In that case, you’ll need to spend quite a bit more money to get this much television. For the rest, the Optoma represents a plasma display that is large, attractive and will be quite impressive to your friends. If it were priced higher my reservations would be greater, but for a street price under $2500 you can’t really go wrong.

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