So you are ready to take the plunge and buy your first plasma TV. What brand do you want? You should definitely consider purchasing a Samsung plasma TV.

History Of Plasma - Samsung Plasma TV

History: University of Illinois professors Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and then-graduate student Robert Wilson, invented the first plasma television in 1964. These gentlemen used regular cathode-ray picture tube television sets as computer monitors for their in-house computer network, although they knew that this display, which has to constantly refresh, was not the optimal medium for displaying computer graphics. After countless hours of research, they built the first plasma display panel, which only had one cell. Today’s plasma TVs use millions of cells.

Samsung Plasma TV – How Plasma Works

Samsung Plasma TVs break pixels into sealed red, green, and blue sub-pixels, or cells that contain an inert gas. An electronic current, derived from the video signal, excites the gas. The excited gas causes the colored phosphors in each of the sub-pictures to begin to glow. By driving each sub-pixel to the desired level, the signal determines the pixels’ exact color and brightness. By putting enough of these pixels close enough together, an image is created.

To stay ready to respond to the signal, plasma cells must remain partially on at all times, meaning that some light is inevitable, even when the signal tells the cell to display the color black. Samsung has re-engineered its Samsung Plasma TVs to reduce this “idling” by 80%.

Samsung Plasma TV – History of Samsung

Samsung Electronics was founded in 1969 in Daegu, South Korea as Samsung Electric Industries, manufacturing electronic appliances such as TVs, calculators, refrigerators, air conditioners, and washers. In 1938, Samsung’s founder Byung-Chull Lee set up a trade export company in Korea, selling fish, vegetables, and fruit to China. Within a decade Samsung had flour mills and confectionary machines and became a co-operation in 1951. From 1958, Samsung began to expand into other industries such as financial, media, chemicals, and ship building.

Samsung manufactures products for use in the consumer electronics and telecommunications industries. In 2005, with a big help from Samsung’s Plasma TV sales, the company surpassed its closest rival, Sony, for the first time to become rated #1 in the industry. In 2007 Samsung Electronics exceeded the 100 billion dollar mark for the first time in the history of the company.

Samsung Plasma 50″ TV - Features

This plasma features a sleek innovative design and boasts a high native resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels, and a16:9 aspect ratio. It also includes Samsung’s 3D noise reduction and digital detail enhancement. The result is a Samsung Plasma TV that is superior in color and image quality; thus the picture comes to life with crisp, clear, visuals.

Other features include (Analog), Composite Video, Component Video, and S-Video. This set is also PC and Mac compatible.

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