Plasma Television is one of the latest innovations to improve your home viewing experience. Their stylish and unbelievably
slim bodies will allow you much more space in your room (a normal 40” television may be as much as 2 feet deep and may weigh 68kg,
in comparison a 40” plasma could be only 6” thick and weigh half as much). Plasmas can either be placed on a stand or wall mounted
giving you the flexibility to suit your specific needs.
How it Works
A Plasma display is an array of tiny gas cells sandwiched between two sheets of glass. Each cell acts like a mini fluorescent tube, emitting ultraviolet light, which then strikes red, green and blue spots on the screen. These spots glow to build a picture.
Benefits of a Plasma TV
- Picture clarity – the picture displayed is like we have never seen before. Plasma screens generally have excellent contrast, quality and sharpness.
- Widescreen broadcast for an astounding home cinema experience.
- Excellent colour and true life detail, makes you feel like you are actually there.
What to consider when buying an Plasma TV
The advantage that Plasma’s have over LCD is the size. Once you go over the 40" mark for an LCD cost per inch increase significantly.
Long life Plasma television screens are long lived providing you with up to 60,000 hours viewing time. That’s roughly seven and a half years of watching your plasma for 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
HD Ready is a labelling scheme introduced by the TV manufacturers' organisation, the European Industry Association for Information Systems (EICTA). The label means the TV has the minimum screen resolution and digital sockets to receive and display an HD picture.
Auto format Switching allows you to choose which aspect ratio best suits the broadcast you are receiving. For example, showing standard (4:3) broadcasts with black bands on either side so the images aren't stretched out of proportion.
Audio/video input sockets. Each time you wish to use a DVD player, set-top box and games console you will need a scart or AV socket for each piece of equipment. Majority of Plasma’s come with at least 2 scart sockets as standard.
Surround Sound can be an additional feature that you may wish too add by purchasing additional speakers to enhance your home system, to recreate the cinema experience. Most Plasma’s come with Virtual surround sound they mimic the effect using the two main speakers.
