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The plasma TV has become a status symbol for many wealthy tech-junkies. They provide a super high-quality picture and can are often made in large screen sizes. They are also fairly expensive, hence the status symbol.

A plasma TV works in a similar manner to most other televisions, with some notable differences. Televisions operate by a coordination of thousands of “pixels” that each contain three elemental colors; red, blue, and green. By varying the amount of each color, and coordinating these changes across the entire screen, they create what our eye sees as a moving picture.

This is true of a plasma TV as well, except that each of these pixels is filled with a specific type of gas, either xenon or neon. They work like your typical neon sign, with an electrical charge causing the gas to glow. Each pixel is divided into three sections that glow, red, blue and green. A computer processor takes a signal from your cable or satellite connection, and instructs each pixel to create specific colors by adjusting how much of each of the three elemental colors is produced.

 

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