Why are LCDs more popular than plasma?

I agree with Rossman, it's all about cost. Cheaper generally is more popular than quality. That's why high end audio is such a small segment of society.

Cheers,
John

I fell in love with the LG 50" plasma [780p]. Blacks are definitely better than LCD's, it beat the snot out of every other flat panel [LCD & plasma] at Circuit City, 60,000 hours until half-life brightness, and it CARRIES A 2 YEAR MANUFACTURE'S WARRANY!

I'm anxiously waiting for my 50" Pioneer analog rear projection set to finally fail...it's on the way after 10 1/2 years!

All of these posts make excellent points. Speaking for myself I felt the 50" Pioneer plazma I bought a year ago smoked any LCD even the newly released Sony XBR in picture quality at that time.

With that said I just picked up the new Panasonic 32" LCD as a 2nd display and this unit really rocks for what I paid for it.

Some times a plazma makes sense, sometimes a LCD makes sense. It Just depends on the application and the finances.

My experience is that the Plasma's tend to do black better (critical, to me), and all but the Toshiba LCD's are comparable. Other lcd's, including Sharp's to me leave little to be desired.
For me, at entry price, I recommend the cheap Visio Plasma in the 42-50" range. (sacrifice parts quality color accuracy, etc). For mid, I like Toshiba LCD's (do black rather well), and Pioneer Plasma. For upper, I like Pioneer Elite, with Fujitsu and Runco's at the very top.
Yeah, to me, most lcd's are just like my laptop - I concure.

It is also important to note that a lot of people buy smaller TVs and the smallest plasmas are 37 ins.