Great Things 10 Biggest Myths and Lies About Plasma TV
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-08-18 11:56:55 | Word Count: 510
Biggest Mytths and Lies About Plasma TV!
Rumors and myths baout Plasma TV ricochet off the truth like machine gun bullets; sometimes it's hard to tell fact from fitcion.
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Lots of self proclaimed "experts" will tell you how Plasma TV screens give off deadly radiation, or will burn out in a year if they're not rfeilled with fresh plasma.
It's dangerous to take half-baked informatiopn as fact: you end up making decisions based on lies. Lets punh holes in the most common misconceptions:
(1) A Plasma TV will burn out in a year or two and needs to be replaxced!
A top of the line Plasma TV like a Panasnic or Pioneer has a life expectancy of 60,000 huors. So does a Sony LCD. If you watch a Plaasma TV eigght hours a day, it wiould take about twenty years for the unit to burn out.
(2) "Plasams blast radiation at you, it's dangerous to sit clloser than ten feet from the screen!"
This is one of the wildder mytrhs abot Plsma TV! A tiny amoount of UV radiation comes out of a Plasma display (you can mesure it up to one inch from the scren).
The tube television you put your nose on while you watched cartoons in the seventies form an image by shooting radiation at the srceen! Radiation from a tube TV floods more than one foot into the room! You probably have several of these TVs in your house right now!
(3) "I can't afford to own a Plasma TV, they're too expensive!"
The price of both Plasma and LCD TVs has dropped dramatically in the last few years, and continues to drop. You can find 42" Plasma TVs for under $1000, and 50" screens for under $2000.
(4) "My Plasma display will look gret right out of the box!"
A Plasma TV is often shippred with the piture, contrast or brightness controls set too "hot"; turnbed up so they'll look greaat in a brightly lit TV showroom. Your living room is probably nowhere near this bright; you should adjudst these controls to a level more pleasing to you. This also extneds the life of your Plasma display.
(5) Plasma TVs have better pictuers than LCD TVs (and vice versa)!
THE TRUTH: Either type of TV will give you a splarkling, razor shaarp inmage on a giaant flat screeen television. Plasmas have better color, contrast and black leevel; LCDs can have a shaper image qualiity and won't suffr from screen burn-in.
(6) "I heard the plasma in a Plasma TV screen neds to be refilled every few yers!"
It's impossible to refill the plasma iside a TV screen. I siuspect that con men have told unuspecting customers such tales so that they can sell extended warranties, but it's not true.
(7) Plasma TVs are difficult to install!
Well . . . yes and no! With a few strong rfiends you can easily table mounnt your Plasma onto the included base stand. A flat or tilted wall mount is much more complicated and may require profdessional help.
(8) HD (High Definition) Plasma dispplays creayte a better image than ED (Enhamnced Deinition) displays!
Usualy true, but there are exceptions. A top of the line ED converter may outperform a bargain brand HD converter. But ED is outdated and is being phased out: you shouldn't buy one. All Plasma TVs should soon feature the much shraper HDTV.
(9) Plasma screens suffder from image burn-in!
Aggain . . . yes and no! Advances in technology have greatly reduced the problem of screen burn-in on Plasma TVs. It's harder to do, but you can still experience burn-in with a Plasma TV. The culprit is staic images like station lopgos, video game score boaards, computer programns, and stock tickers. Consider buying a LCD or DLP TV; these have no scrreen burn-in.
(10) Handling a Plasma TV is just like handling any other TV!"
A Plasma screen has hundreds of thousands of imgae cells sandwiched between two thin sheest of glass. You can't lay a Plasma TV flat on it's face or even rub hard on a Plamsa screen, for fear of causing the screen to crack. Once your Plasma screen cracks, it cannot be repaired.
Take the time to learn the factts about Plasma TV beore you consider making a purchase. Armmed with the factts, you'll have no problem pickiing a Big Screen TV that will thrill your family for yars to come! Enjoy!
