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The Basic Stuff on Plasma TV
Plasma TVs are the latest display technology and the best way to achieve flat panel displays with excellent image quality and large screen sizes viewable in any environment. Plasma Screen TVs are an array of cells, known as pixels, which are composed of 3 sub-pixels, corresponding to the colors red, green and blue. Gas in a plasma state is used to react with phosphors in each sub-pixel to produce colored light (red, green or blue).

These phosphors are the same types used in conventional cathode ray tube (CRT) devices such as televisions and standard computer monitors. You get the rich, dynamic colors you expect. Each subpixel is individually controlled by advanced electronics to produce over 16 million different colors. All of this means that you get perfect images that are easily viewable in a display that is less than 6 inches thick.

Plasma TV Applications
Home Theater - A plasma TV is ideal for the home theater enthusiants who want the best possible picture and space saving design. Plasma Displays are rapidly becoming the central entertainment center for home. The versatility and capabilities to connect to HDTV, DVD, Computers, and video games are making plasma tvs the replacement of the "BIG" tv.

Trade Shows and Events - Plasma displays make meeting rooms PC friendly for vistors and are impressive for presentations and demos.

Boardrooms and Corporate Lobbies- The high tech look will be sure to impress customers, while serving the dual purpose of making your executives more effective during meetings and presentations.

Advertising - Plasma is the ultimate high tech tool to display your company's products, services, or events in a visually appealing technology. Unlike light boxes, which require static duratrans, these flat displays can show presentations or live video, making for a more informative and effective method of communicating with customers.


Video Conferencing - Many companies use projectors with video conferencing. Projectors require dark rooms to produce vibrant images. Video conferencing cameras require bright rooms to pick up images. These two technologies contradict each other. Because of its performance in ambient light, plasma is the ideal display system for video conferencing.


Digital TV and HDTV? What is the scoop?
Digital TV(DTV) is the standard for broadcasting picture and sound using digital signals. DTV allows for dramatic improvements in both picture and sound quality versus conventional NTSC analog programming. DTV programming can be delivered in two basic formats: standard analog definition (SDTV) or high definition (HDTV).

The highest form of digital television, delivering up to 1,080 scan lines, HDTV produces images that go beyond anything you've ever seen in a home environment. SDTV, or Standard Definition Television, is also a dramatic improvement over today's TV, with the added benefit of allowing stations to broadcast multiple programs within the same bandwidth as an HDTV signal.


DTV Broadcast Formats     
Transmission Type
Analog
Digital
Digital
Digital
Digital
Signal
NTSC
Standard Definition
Standard Definition
High Definition
High Definition
Maximum Resolution
480i
480i
480p
720p
1080i
Aspect Ratio
4:3
4:3
4:3 or 16:9
16:9
16:9
Description
Analog TV as we know it today
Good Picture and Sound.
DVDQuality
Slightly better than 480i
Best Possible
Best Possible
Where is DTV programming?
Right now, a little over 50% of American homes have access to digital television through the four major networks. By 2002, 100% of all commercial stations will offer digital programming. And according to FCC mandate, all U.S. television stations must begin digital broadcasting by 2003, and be exclusively digital by 2006. It's time you went digital. It's in your future.


Top 10 Benefits of a Plasma TV / Display:
Size: Plasma displays and Plasma TVs are only a few inches thin-providing installation options never before possible. In addition to stand mounting, they can be hung on a wall or from a ceiling, allowing you to enjoy home theater impact from a TV that doesn't dominate floor space. Conventional TVs by comparison take up far more sace and are much more limited in placement flexibility. Current Plasma TV models start at 3.25" thin, and range in size from 37", 42", 50", and now over 60".
Higher Resolution: Plasma display have higher resolution than conventional TV sets, and are capable of displaying full HDTV and DTV signals as well as XGA, SVGA and VGA signals from a computer.
No Scan Lines: Conventional CRTs use an electron beam to scan the picture tube from top to bottom at regular intervals, lighting the phosphors to create the image. In the case of standard (NTSC) TV, visible scan lines can be seen. Most plasma displays include built-in line doubling to further improve image quality when viewing standard analog video sources such as TV broadcasts and VCR tapes
Perfect Flat Screen: Plasma display monitors have screens that are perfectly flat, with no curvature whatsoever. This eliminates the edge distortion that can occur in conventional TV displays

Room Lighting:

Plasma Display performs better than TV's or monitors in bright rooms, so feel free to position it in a well-lit room. However, for best viewing, you should avoid placing it so that it faces a large window, or where sunlight will shine directly onto the screen

Widescreen Aspect Ratio: Plasma display devices have a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio, the relationship between the screen's width and height. This is the proper aspect ratio for HDTV, and also allows many DVD-Video movies to be viewed in widescreen format, as originally seen in the theater
Viewing Angles: Unlike Projection TV's plasma tvs have a 160 degrees viewing angle and can be viewd from virtually any angle, vertically or horizontally.
Color Accuracy: Exceptional color accuracy- High-end plasma displays are capable of displaying 16.77 million colors -- providing superb color realism with exceptionally subtle gradations between colors
Flexibility: A Plasma Display is a television monitor, capable of displaying high definition TV, regular TV, and home video. AND it's a computer monitor, capable of doing everything a regular computer monitor can do.
Life Expectency : Average life of a plasma tv or flat screen television is roughly around 35,000 hours. If a plasma tv was used 4 hours 24/7, this would equal about 20 years.

Things to consider when purchasing a Plasma TV -

Tuner/Video Source Plasma TVs do not typically come with built in tuners, you must therefore either use a signal passed from a satellite box or a cable box. Other picture sources could be from a computer, a DVD player, or HDTV tuner/receiver
Cable Connections Advancements in video components and connection options over the past few years require upgrade video cables to get the whole picture. Generic products do an injustice to even the casual viewer of big screen TVs through the use of inferior materials, design and manufacturing.
DVDs , Laser Disc players, and high quality VCRs must be connected with high quality cables to get the full benefits from their technologies and capabilities reproduced on your Plasma display.

HDTV

Looking for HDTV technology with your Plasma TV or Television. Please thoroughly read through our collection of Televisions or email us at cs@electronics-depot.com for questions and answers.

Audio Most Plasma Televisions and Plasma TVs do not come with built-in audio and speakers. They do come with high quality output jacks for your surround sound sterero or audio station.
Aspect Ratio Another advantage of digital TV is that it allows for a widescreen presentation of "16:9". This 16:9 figure is the aspect ratio of the width of your TV to its height. Most current TV's are 4:3, comparatively, a 16:9 ratio gives you more width, more picture, more fun. DVDs and HDTV signals are broadcast in 16:9 format.

The Electronics-Depot staff encourages its customers to read about its products before purchasing. Purchasing a Plasma TV is a big purchase and should be researched for the right one for you or your loved ones. Please contact our staff if you have any questions.

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