For many years, the technology that allowed you to sit in your home and watch audio and video was based on a tube technology. Very basically, light was shined into a tube which then projected the image onto the screen of your television set. The technology behind the plasma TV screen isnt so very much different in some respects, but is very different in others.
First, keep in mind that plasma TV screens arent a new idea. Almost as long as people have had the power to watch television, there have been those with the idea for plasma television. It was during the 1960s that a college professor created the first plasma TV screen, though manufacturers werent anxious to pursue the technology until much more recently.
The technology is based on a series of very small lights. The lights are fluorescent and each pixel has three colors red, green and blue. The lights are illuminated based on the code of the image being received so that the viewer sees a series of lights that form an image.
Plasma TVs have nothing to do with blood. In this case, plasma is a gas. The gas in its neutral state is stagnant. When electricity is introduced into the situation, these...