“Does size matter?” is a question that has created quite a lot of controversy over time, whether we’re talking about intimacy-related issues or the dimensions of television sets. Furthermore, it seems that the old habit of measuring whose “member” is bigger has gone beyond the premises of the locker-room and into the big world of consumer electronics,
because the most important manufacturers involved on the TV sets’ market are constantly competing against each other in order to create the world’s largest displays. And it looks like the “best-endowed” player might be none other than Panasonic, or at least a future plasma model coming from the Japanese company.

The Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, says that Matsushita has managed to top the world record in the field of plasma displays, as it plans to roll out at CES 2008 the widest device, surpassing its own previous record (an 103-inch model). Furthermore, this particular PDP promises to be the world’s largest display, surpassing even Sharp’s 108-inch LCD panel prototype.

However, as you might imagine, there’s a twist to this whole story. Thus, if we take into consideration the fact that the 103-inch PDP from Panasonic retails for around 6 million yen (53,000 US dollars), you can only imagine just how expensive the 150-inch behemoth will be! Actually, if we speak only in terms of dollars per inch, the new PDP should sell for at least…80,000 US dollars…