Pioneer stuns with new Kuro plasmas and LCD TVs. Pioneer has confirmed its position as the UK’s premier plasma TV maker with a range of Kuro displays unveiled at a London launch today.

Pioneer’s expansion into LCD TV territory shouldn’t come as a surprise - it’s been hinting that it would make the move since CES 2008 in January. The biggest news however is that Pioneer is now touting its own LCD TVs, with panels supplied by TV maker Sharp. Pioneer also took the wraps off a new high-end D-ILA projector.

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History of Plasma Technology
The very first plasma television was invented in 1964 at the University of Illinois by professors Donald Bitzer and Gene Slottow, and a graduate student who was assisting them with their research. These gentlemen had been using regular televisions as computer monitors, but they knew that a cathode-ray display, used on a regular television, has to constantly refresh, making it an unacceptable long-term solution for displaying computer graphics. After countless hours of research, they built the first plasma display panel with one cell. In contrast, plasma TVs today use millions of cells to display an image.

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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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