Tube technology enabled people to watch TV at home. Very basically, light was shined into a tube which then projected the image onto the screen of your television set. The technology behind plasma TVs isn’t that different in some ways.
Firstly, be aware that plasma TV screens aren’t exactly a new idea. The idea for plasma TVs have been around as long as there was electricity. It was during the 1960s that a college professor created the first plasma TV screen, though manufacturers weren’t anxious to pursue the technology until much more recently.
The technology involves a series of tiny lights. These lights are fluorescent, and each pixel has the colours red, green, and blue. The illumination of the lights is based on the image being received, so the TV viewers can see a high quality image made from these lights.
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