Used to use Dolphin to play the Wii version of guitar hero 3. Worked pretty well

And by GTA V The Grove was taken over by ballers :(

I know SD and HD are separate universes… but it would make sense that no matter what GSF gets pushed out

Likewise, it fits well as GTA storylines never really have a happy ending

I bet, they are still technically good displays that can potentially surpass most modern LCDs.

OLED does beat them in every way now though

You are correct. They were susceptible to burn in and dimming over time but did not have a back light.

I never owned a plasma display because they were too expensive. CRT until 08 when we upgraded to a Vizio LCD for me

I should’ve corrected that after my wikipedia dive

Bad viewing angles, poor contrast ratios, poor refresh rate and poor display speed.

I was not saying that they were non existent or unreliable. The technology was just poor at that time and beaten by Plasma displays in those areas

Plasma displays had 2 problems though (besides cost) They were heavier than LCDs and their backlights would dim over time.

Edit: I was reading on wikipedia… they work like those plasma globes!

Plasma displays were affected by screen burn-in where as LCDs typically are not.

Also it seems like on Contrast ratio plasma still is not beaten by LCD displays

Though there are a lot of LED backlight technologies that help. Such as being able to only run a portion of the backlight for a given area.

For a while there were also Dual Layer LCD panels. They would effectively use one layer of LCD to control color and another to try to control brightness / prevent light bleed through. I think those are obsolete for the most part now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display

In that era you had CRTs or Rear Projection TVs.

Rear Projection was bigger (55" 4:3) but often times was susceptible to burn-in and had a worse quality picture compared to a CRT

Before LCDs it was plasma which until the the late 2000s had more technical advantages over LCD Refresh rate, contrast. LCDs couldn’t really match them until the 2010s (I never had a plasma display though so I don’t fully understand plasma)

DLP was a thing and could get up to and over 80" while maintaining quality but DLP could not be wall mounted as they were quite big like rear projection screens