The Plasma TV Blog

Watching TV can’t get any easier. You can now have access to over 3000 channels at the click of your mouse on your computer. There is no extra hardware or TV card required.
Channels include:

MTV
Comedy Central
Discovery Channel
Adult Swim
Food Network
Mulitple Movie Channels
Mulitple Sports Channels
Local News Channels
Weather Channels
International Channels

and over 2000+ more! The only thing you need to […]

Plasma Television was once called by one of its early developers as a “solution looking for a problem.” When the first plasma monitor was developed in 1964, its purpose was to provide a bigger computer monitor. The real advantage of the plasma fired display over the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) type display was that it […]

It is a bit difficult to estimate the power consumption of a Plasma television because of the nature of its display characteristics. Since the amount of current needed to “fire” the plasma and produce the image is so dependent on the type of image being reproduced, power consumption is going to vary widely depending on […]

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 […]

Shadowing is the name given to a characteristic of plasma display monitors. It occurs when a frozen image such as a task bar on a computer screen, or a static photo remains on the screen for a long period of time. The phosphor based pixels emit light continuously, and when the image changes, they are […]

Phosphor-based electronic displays, which include both cathode ray monitor and plasma displays, are subject to a condition known as burn in. This results from a long term display of an image on the monitor. A menu bar on a computer display is a good example of the type of image that might remain on the […]

It was in July of 1964 at the University of Illinois, that the first prototype for a plasma display monitor was invented by Professors Donald Bitzer and Gene Slottow, as well as Robert Willson, who was still a graduate student at the time. This early monitor was developed with the idea of replacing cathode ray […]

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 […]

Plasma TVs represent one of the major new technologies in television that are competing in the home theater market. Lets look at some of the pros and cons.
One of the major advantages of the Plasma is its size. It represents a major improvement over CRT TVs in depth as the cathode tube is eliminated. Plasma […]