How to Choose a Plasma Display
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Hello, my name is Michael Fallert. I am the general manager of the Sound Shop in Colorado Springs and I am here today to talk to you about plasma displays and how to choose the right one.
There are really are no good or bad choices, the important thing is what environment should putting in them. There were some early concerns with plasma when it came to altitude. If you are living at the high altitude you absolutely have to get an altitude certified television that is going to let you take it up to 8,000 feet. Problem being as early on they were all pressurized for sea level. And when you took them up to 7,000 or 8,000 feet above sea level the internal gas was actually beating against the glass trying to escape and it created like a winding sound. It does not hurt the TV at all, it does short in the life and that is important.
So a lot of bad rumors about plasma and the first one being is, the life span. Half life on them which is where you start to see a depreciation of picture quality is 60,000 hours and at 8 hours a day that is 13 years or 14, something like that. Aside from that the important thing is to pick one, I mean to have one in 1080i and 1080P which is the new higher resolution and with that equates to is at 1080i you have 1.1 million pixels on the screen at 1080P you have 2 million. And the way it works on the plasma each pixels the easiest way to think about it. The easiest way to wrap your brain around it is. Each pixel on this is the same as a neon light, think of like that. So, little each little picks on the screen and little encapsulated area. It actually what it is one piece of glass has dimples in it and the top piece is smooth unlike before they press in ceiling they inject them with gas. And then the gas is electrically excited to change colors as much like neon.
If you thought of this has about a million neon signs taped together that is how plasma is made pretty much. There are really no bad choices, everything on the market. There are some entry level companies I like everything else in the world you get what you pay for. If you got out and you buy the cheapest plasma you can find, that is exactly what you are going to own is the cheapest plasma you can find. If you want a good plasma stick with the name brands LG, Sony, and Pioneer. You are going to find a lot of manufactures are getting away from plasma now that LCD is got and caused effective. They still do not make LCD as large as plasma.
Plasma right now go in production that you can just order and buy, they goes as big as 71 inches now whereas LCD stops at 65 so that is the big difference. Well, that about wraps it up for plasma and the choices out there. Thanks again for watching, okay.
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