In television, as in all things, you can't fully appreciate where you are, and where you're headed, without knowing where you've been. When I moved to the wilds of north Florida eight+ years ago I brought my two plasmas with me (a Pioneer Kuro and one of the last and best plasma sets that Panasonic ever made). Silly me. Plasma by then was a dying TV breed. It had once swamped LCDs as the go-to TV design among videophiles, but by 2015 it had long lost its mojo.