Plasma vs. LCD TV History

In 1964, University of Illinois professors Donald Bitzer and Gene Slottow, along with then-graduate student Gene Slottow, invented the very first plasma television. The plasma vs.LCD TV race had just begun. These gentlemen used regular televisions as computer monitors for their in-house computer network. They knew that a cathode-ray display has to constantly refresh, which is not optimal for displaying computer graphics. After countless hours of research, they built the first plasma display panel with one cell. Today’s plasmas use millions of cells.

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In only 10 years, the plasma television grew from its start into an entertainment phenomenon it is today. From the development of a monochrome screen using plasma technology in 1964 at the University if Illinois, the first full color plasma television monitor was not introduced until 1992. While the use of a flat panel display was interesting to many in the industry, the use of LCD displays to achieve the same benefit as well as the low cost of the semiconductors they used put the development of plasma units on the back burner for several years.

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High definition television sets are becoming a more integral part of the entertainment world as the industry works at meeting the government’s requirement for all broadcasting to be done in digital by the year 2009. With the brilliance seen in the newer models of plasma televisions, Panasonic is proving a leader in the innovations of larger screens for home viewing enjoyment. With this shift to digital, consumers are benefiting from much better reproductions of shows on widescreen flat-panel televisions with some of the brightest pictures being viewed on a Panasonic plasma TV.

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