The digital revolution? High def? If these buzzwords and catchphrases seem little more than babbled jargon, then the concept of plasma technology must seem as complicated as longdivision whilst blindfolded and listening to The Rites of Spring. Well, it doesn’t need to be, and this article aims to distill the near future of television technology into 500 words of plain English.

Look at your TV, not at the screen, but at its shape. It is a square box because it contains a cathode ray tube and the bigger the screen size, the further back the traditional TV set needs
to stretch in order to accommodate the length of the old style tube. Plasma TV uses pixels instead, each tiny pixel contains three fluorescent lights: red, green, and blue, and these each light-up at a different brightness to mix and create the suitable colour for the desired image.

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