1.   Al Giazzon, vice president for marketing at NEC-Mitsubishi, acknowledged that there were larger flat-panel displays based on plasma display technology.

2.   But plasma technology is evolving fast.

3.   Dangling before us in all these public spaces, plasma technology becomes even more tantalizing.

4.   Sony will have to play catch-up with the existing plasma technology.

5.   But he admitted that plasma screen technology would be hard to beat for larger screens, despite its high consumption of electricity.