Remember the monster sized man-eating HDTV? It was Panasonic’s 103” inch plasma the largest production plasma screen made to date. The cost is outrageous, get ready to pay some $70K for the devil’s HDTV. That’s almost as much as the Lutz’s paid for that house in Amityville NY back in the 70s.

The first customer for the giant plasma was NBC for the set of Monday Night Football. Gizmodo has an interesting take on the whole thing. We geeks who would put the 103” monster with a full 1920 x 1080 resolution and 5000:1 contrast ratio have lost. If I took it home I would lock myself in my house and watch whatever I could get my hands on in HD DVD, an Xbox360 game would be next. Watching a football game would be pretty far down my list of priorities. But football won the battle for the 103” plasma and the geeks lost. Pity.

Updates have been few and far between on the HomeTheaterFocus blog. But they will be revving back up later this month of September. Much of my time lately has been taken up with getting a new blog on another website ramped up check out the GizmoCafe blog.

I am about to drop out of civilization for awhile on a week long trek through the wilderness of Algonquin Park by canoe and foot. The only audio I’ll get out there is the sounds of loons and hopefully a chorus of wolves in the distance.