I'm probably not as picky as most - some of our game Dev TV sets are probably hilariously bad with latency - but the goal is to get a 50/55" set that can be comfortably wall mounted as the baby is just roaming like a dinosaur now. LCD was (is?) lighter and thinner which would help with that. We have cable but 3/4 HDMI plugs will be for game consoles.
LCD is thinner and lighter, yeah... Plasma is basically sheets of glass going on... As in, it can be real thin actually (I consider the latest one I bought to be really thin), but never really light.
My 65VT60 weights 92.6 lb or 42.00 kg without stand... it's kinda massive. I quickly googled a 65" Sony LCD, the 64W850A and it's 75.4 lbs or 34 kg it's 1/4 less weight, roughly... that sounds indicative of what to expect.
Bare in mind that ultra thin without much of a bezel for LCD's is the very reason we had people last year loosening up screws on the back and massaging the front to correct uniformity issues caused by weight... which is silly and reveals bad quality assurance. That's a recipe for badly done sandwiches, even if they do look cool, screens weight and they need structure going on or that'll happen, which is why Full Array a few years back (leds behind the screen) had a lot better uniformity than Edge Lit usually has (putting led's on the edges around the screen) it had structure and it wasn't as thin. It was a win-win situation and it is thankfully a decision that is being salvaged for flagship models this year.
What I'm saying is be weary of ultra thin TV's, it's mostly a style over substance kind of decision.
This said, they can be wall mounted, the
VESA mount for this inch size has to take the amount of weight needed to secure that a plasma like this doesn't just fall off.
Another word of advise, Sony is not very VESA friendly, so looking those will need extra adapting parts (which were available for popular models like the 42W650A last year, dunno if they are for the W805B, the feet stand it comes with should be wall mountable though it'll secure the same weight but I believe it uses less screws bolted onto the wall, So you probably need a good wall (each screw will support more weight than usual), or just go VESA, but it's not straight forward... sadly.
... These concepts we're talking about, IPS sucking and uniformity being balls is not stuff you usually notice on a store, just like store environment hasn't helped when it came to selling plasma screens, light coming from the ceiling masks grey blacks and bad uniformity pretty well.
I've always appreciated plasma - hell, the PX60 isn't even true 720p - but it looks like the writing is on the wall for that format.
It is, but until OLED is viable in a lot of senses we're advancing LCD which is kinda like the years we invested in VHS after the betamax failed. It's a technological branch that has very little chances of coming close to plasma in reality, it's not self emitting and it'll never be... And the future is, hopefully self emitting, which Plasma was.
OLED will surpass it (real OLED, perhaps not LG WOLED-CF when it comes to actual color reproduction), but that seems farther and farther away.
I know PX60 heritage pretty well as I have a X50 on my gaming room, which is the penultimate model that used that (last were the X60's in 2013) and it's pretty amazing for what it is. It was a good run, couldn't recommend it enough for people on a budget last year.
I guess you can manage with a single card, but then you'd need to drop the quality.
