Basic construction of a plasma television screen
In a plasma screen, there are more than sixteen million pixels that make up the screen. Each of those sixteen million is made up of three pixels of blue, red, and green phosphor colors, which are evenly distributed across the screen. The entire screen you see, or rather the image you see, is made up of a combination of these three colors.
The plasma itself sits and operates between two thin glass panes. Millions of tiny images (composed of greens, reds, and blues) are created by shining fluorescent lights through them. And plasma is made of a gas made up of electrically charged atoms and negatively charged particles. Electricity then passes through it, which starts the ‘turn-on’ process, or what we see on the screen.
Plasma TVs are at the higher end of the scale when it comes to price compared to other types of flat screens. But is there an advantage that we clearly see with a plasma TV, compared to LCD?
Due to the flat screen, there is no edge distortion that you sometimes get on regular TVs or CRTs.
Watch movies made in widescreen or 16:9 as it should be: widescreen, not half cropped! And you know how annoying and frustrating it can be when half of the picture is cut off or you can’t see the subtitles at the bottom of the screen!
With a plasma, the brightness of the screen is uniform from one corner to the other. You get mixed bright and dark colors with conventional TVs, but you don’t have this problem with a plasma screen. All sixteen pixels are illuminated evenly.
A major problem with older type televisions is the large amount of space they take up in the living room, but this problem does not exist with a flat screen. Due to the slim design, plasma TVs provide more options when it comes to mounting them. Whether at eye level, or higher, you can mount a plasma on the wall, or it can sit on a regular TV stand.
Another cool thing about plasmas is that magnetic fields don’t disrupt the screen. Plasma screens work completely differently than conventional televisions, which use beams of electrons, which as you know can be greatly affected by magnetism. So you know that sound system you wanted to plant right next to your TV? With a plasma, you can have the speakers as close as you like without affecting the picture.