What is the effective life of LCD and plasma screens?
Both LCD and plasma are rated around 55,000 hours MTBF (mean time between failures). However, the LCD goes bad in the form of one pixel at a time, while plasma goes bad in the form of a black line. At LG Electronics (USA Digital Menu is an authorized dealer), the panel rating is 60,000 hours for both plasma and LCD screens. For deployments where the screen will be used in a 12-hour-per-day (4,380 hours per year) application, that is the equivalent of 13.7 years.
