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"  Credit: Getty Images. Another tech bites the dust. Samsung announced last week that it would end its plasma TV business because of &amp;quot;change in market demands.&amp;quot; This follows Panasonic&amp;#039;s announcement last year that it also would cease plasma production. LG, the last major producer of plasma televisions, is also slated to stop. The last shipments of plasma TVs in the U.S. will happen by the end of the year. Once the hot name in flatscreen TV tech, plasma was long considered to have better picture quality than LCD TVs. But along came LED, which was just as capable but could produce a picture on a thinner screen while using less power and at a lower cost, making plasma obsolete. In the first quarter of this year, plasma TV sales dropped 16 percent, a clear signal that the end was near. Via CNN Money. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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