Usually, the price of a Plasma TV would be far cheaper than an LCD TV. This is due to the cost of producing the LCD display panel and the quality of the LCD display itself. Although in general the Plasma TV’s resolution is not as good as an LCD TV’s, it can still produce very sharp images compared to CRT TV’s with the help of various technology.

Plasma TV’s and LCD TV’s should not be confused with each other, as some people tend to do. Plasma televisions basically use a plasma discharge inside, compared to LCDs which uses a mercury based active matrix system. This TV tends to be more popular among households these days compared to LCD TV’s and this is simply because of one thing; the price.

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INTRODUCTION

The Pioneer PDP-5010FD Plasma is a current Fall 2007 model. This plasma TV is assembled in the U.S. with components manufactured in Japan and the U.S. Pioneer focuses their manufacturing efforts on top performing plasma televisions.

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Pioneer Plasma Television – History

The very first plasma television was invented in 1964 at the University of Illinois by Professors Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and then graduate student Robert Wilson. These gentlemen used regular televisions as computer monitors for their in-house computer network, although they knew a cathode-ray display has to constantly refresh, which is bad for displaying computer graphics. After countless hours of research, they were able to build the first plasma display panel, which only had one cell. Today’s plasmas use millions of cells.

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