The Plasma TV Blog

With the cost of energy continuing to rise, power consumption is often a consideration when making a major appliance purchase. Unfortunately, television manufacturers are not going overboard to provide us the data we need to make comparisons of this particular cost item. They do not fail to flash a large variety of numbers and specs […]

Put in simple terms contrast ratio is how black your display monitor makes black appear. It is often confused with brightness. Brightness is simply the intensity of the light in the images. While similar to brightness, contrast is actually the difference that exists between the brightest and the darkest part of the image. When it […]

Pixel density, or as it is often called, pixels per inch (PPI) is a measurement of the resolution of the display of a monitor. It refers to the number of pixels in the horizontal and vertical directions of the display. It is sometimes called dots per inch, but that terminology is more accurate when referring […]

In the previous generation of analog TVs, the rule of thumb was to multiply the size of the screen by 3 to obtain the distance from the TV for the maximum picture clarity. Thus, you would want to sit 12.5 feet from a TV with a 50 inch screen. The improved resolution of HDTV has […]

The DLP, or Digital Light Processing, TV is the rear projecting version of the new television technology that allows for a larger screen size with less depth than the CRT, or Cathode Ray Tube, TV. In many ways, the DLP is the best choice.
DLP TVs deliver consistently high quality images. Contrast, brightness, and black light […]

The major difference between LCD and DLP TV is the manner in which the image is transferred from the electronic video signal to the screen. The CRT (cathode ray television) was the first method, and had served well providing a very high picture quality and contrast, but it had the disadvantage of size. As the […]

The DLP TV is a rear projection television that uses a small digital micro mirror device known as a DMD to tilt more than 1.3 million very, very small mirrors. Each of the small mirrors represents one pixel. As the image changes the mirrors tilt very quickly. This produces what is known as the grayscale […]

DLP stands for Digital Light Processing. It is the name for one of the new television technologies that have recently exploded on the consumer market. A DLP TV is a rear projection television, but it is not as awkward or bulky as the older model rear projection models. The technology that makes it possible was […]