NBC First to Buy Panasonic's 103" Plasma

Not so long ago, HomeTheaterFocus.com reported on a monster-sized Man Eating HDTV. Panasonic's 103 inch plasma HDTV is the world's largest of its kind. If you're interested, it'll be available to the public in November - just in time for Christmas if you have that kind of money to throw around. How much you ask? The cost is downright Satanic, get ready to pay some $70K for the devil's HDTV. That's almost as much as the Lutz's paid for that big old house in Amityville, NY back in the '70s.

The first actual buyer of the new Panasonic 103 inch Plasma turned out to be NBC, for the set of Monday Night Football. Gizmodo was making light of the whole thing by turning it into competition between the geeks and the jocks.

We geeks would probably put the 103 inch, 1920 x 1080 resolution monster with an incredible 5000:1 contrast ratio to work playing video games. If I took it home I would lock myself in my rec room and watch something on HD DVD; then I'd try my hand at something on Xbox360. Sorry, but watching a football game would be way down on the priority list. But give it up for the NFL - football won the right to be first on the block to strut the 103" plasma, and we geeks lost.

Updates on GizmoCafe's Blog will be pretty lean in the next week. I am about to drop out of civilization for awhile on a week long trek through the wilderness of Algonquin Park, by canoe and foot. The only technology I'll have out there is a mini propane stove and a pretty cool self-inflating bed roll. You should see the bed roll,  just pop the cap and it sucks in air. Somehow the individual cells fill up,  but when I lay on it, the mattress keeps a nice comfortable consistency under my weight. And the whole thing rolls up no wider than the palm of my hand and weighs almost nothing. That's some nice technology to give you those creature comforts while sleeping out in the bush. Rob Roy Macgregor never had it so good.

6 comments
Posted by Sockeye on September 28,2006 at 1:29 AM
If I had a TV that big, I think I would just use it for a gold 'ol Original Six hockey game. And while not displaying a Wings game I'll have it running slide shows of me. Just me. Not me and nikked womens, or me and the last big fish I caught, not even pictures of beer. With a set of that size and price it should only show a good hockey game and me.
Posted by Wayde on September 1,2006 at 5:00 PM
Sens beat Leafs ? NNNOooooooooo!!

Not even 103" of Plasma can sweeten that blow.
Posted by nhogan on September 1,2006 at 3:13 PM
That would be such an amazing TV to have. I agree with Dave - I'd enjoy watching the Sens beat the Leafs on that tv! ;)

Have a great time in Algonquin Wayde. I need to go back there myself sometime.
Posted by Alissa on September 1,2006 at 3:09 PM
I wonder if there's ever going to be such a thing as too big for a TV...i could think of a lot of other ways to spend 70K, and i'm still satisfied with my 13".  Mind you, i wouldn't mind if it were flatscreen.  That said, geeks you'd better shape up for next tech race or there'll be no living with the jocks...not that there ever is anyway.
Posted by Dynasty on September 1,2006 at 2:15 PM
Incredible, but I'm not surprised.

I myself am a huge Football fan, and sorry Wayde, but I would rather watch the Colts-Giants game on that TV than play video games on it in your old basement.

However, I do miss hanging out at your place with the old gang, wasting away playing video games. Especially WC3.

Maybe one day I'll move back to Canada, visit you, and we can waste away again, playing video games, but for now, I'm content with watching the Colts games live down at the RCA Dome. Thats my 103" HDTV.
Posted by Dave on September 1,2006 at 12:31 PM
WOW!  I really need to get one of those before hockey season starts up.  I can't imagine watching a Leafs and Sens game on that beast.  Have a good time in Algonquin park next week.