How do plasma TVs work? I James May Q&A I Head Squeeze

[@schmittelt]

I do miss the days when my friends would call me and ask what I was doing. "Oh, just soaking up some cathode rays...."

[@vivaanaidan4789]

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[@reignray1222]

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[@reignray1222]

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[@samin90]

LED refers to the new backlight tech used in LCD panels. OLED screen are something else entirely: the pixels not only show colour but emit light as well. That means that darker images are actually using less energy.

[@helengarcia2223]

Wow spell really work's my one year broken 💔 relationship was been recover by the help of a powerful Dr Williams. Who help bring us back together within a minutes. I believe he can also help you get yours back not only that he help my Barren friend get pregnant.... All thanks to Dr Williams

[@Driver6M]

Most plasmas can update at 400hz to 600hz with lightning response times (HDMI input to image displayed output) with which is much quicker then a LCD can handle and perfect for things like watching sport or gaming without juddering or lag.

[@benwilliams5134]

I saw a thumbnail of James May's face, and I said, "WHAT IS THIS! NON-TOPGEAR VIDEO WITH JAMES MAY?! IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!"

[@MegaMarcin98]

Welcome to Earth. Top Gear isn't the only thing in the world

[@BBCEarthScience]

Welcome to Head Squeeze!

[@Saviliana]

+Moneybadger Aorry, but in 2944, we only had top (galatic) gear on every channel.

[@Saviliana]

Moneybadger Star Citizen

[@MegaMarcin98]

Saviliana Am I missing something?

[@RFC3514]

It's actually possible to have colour TV with a single electron gun; it just needs to be able to adjust its intensity fast enough (i.e., in the time it takes it to go from each sub-pixel to the next).

[@ray-sattler]

yeah, like the Sony Chromatron

[@elektroqtus]

I think Techmoan reviewed a camcorder that had a viewfinder crt eyepiece with a single gun. It would use near uv pixel to synchronize the colors. It was red, green, blue violet. It had a sensor just for violet

[@elektroqtus]

RGBV, RGBV, RGBV, That's how it could orient itself to know when and where to burst. Techmoan actually showed us that when you covered the sensor, color was lost and monitor went monochrome.

[@elektroqtus]

But I also understand that plasma sets would scam 4 times per frame. I have seen the photos of this. I actually had a plasma set for a short time. I could almost see the 4scan operations to a point. When that thing fell over and split the screen, I powered it in immediately to watch the very center still try to produce at least part of a picture. If you wanted to see a grown man cry like a baby.😢 Mad respect to plasma because it was a crucial step in the development of flat panels and history of them.

[@its_loosha]

@@ray-sattler*Indextron

[@Modenut]

Swedish TV once (in the late 60s I think) pulled an april fools on the entire nation. They said that if you took a nylon stocking and somehow managed to pull it over your black and white TV you'd get colour tv hehe. It was glorious.

[@Firebirds4ever]

I had a plasma years ago (this was after they became affordable). Loved that tv. But then I replaced it with a LG 4k OLED, and I don't miss the plasma one bit. The OLED is an incredible tv.

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

plasma is better for older content though OLED gives a stuttering effect

[@ianashmore9910]

I still have one of the last made Samsung plasma's. It's still great. Regular content looks just as good as on my QLED.

[@osman_zengin]

I bet you are gonna say the same thing for your OLED tv after having an 8K microled TV.

[@poisonpotato1]

I concerned about burn in

[@KingCrimson82]

@@poisonpotato1 plasma isnt for ocd freaks.. i tried 14 days to get rid of the plasma fuzz (small particles that swirls around) so i restricted its settings to a "sweet spot" since i wanted it as a monitor for the pc. Then i just stopped caring and one day i watched MOANA and i started tearing up.why? because the colors were so good that it reminded me on my childhood, it triggered the shit out of me. Then i realized that you NEED TO E AWAY from the screen far enough from close to 50" you need 1,5 to 2 meters distance. The burn in is something you forget about but happens all the time.. you wont notice , its only visible if you see a black screen or another one color screen. For the price of the Plasma fuzz and the burn in (which will be constantly overwritten so to speak) you get the best picture out there.

[@brichardsfourty]

I bought my plasma 65 inch TV and it’s yes it’s a Panasonic plasma TV 65 inch TV and 2009 and she still working perfectly today 2024. It’s way better than a lot of TVs today and mine has beautiful picture even when I’m playing video games, the colors are so vibrant and beautiful. I love Panasonic plasma. I have two of them.

[@flashfilibuster5382]

CRT's use Red Green and Blue phosphors to produce color. Scaling up the size of a CRT width wise did not proportionally effect the depth. Larger units weren't all that deeper than their smaller counterparts especially in the late days of the technology. Also RGB triads on a Slot/Shadow Mask display are not pixels as they're not individually addressed and not digital, they are analogue. Either way entertaining video.

[@elektroqtus]

But after 25 inches diagonal, it seems like every inch diagonal increase was a doubling of weight. Or damn close. 25" can be hefted up by one person. 30" requirements are 4 people to lift up. Wiider scanning angles made for shallower depth on CRT but as it got larger in the front, you're GOING to pick up more depth than a slightly smaller tube.

[@mikey2024]

i need videos for a school project and im watching this and its all going so well until "you would need to squint to see her nipples"

[@BillyJBob]

What's wrong with it? :)

[@BillyJBob]

Mikey Kessinger give it a try :D

[@mikey2024]

im barely passing now i dont think thats a good idea

[@damiaan7021]

Mikey ! I used pedobear in a presentation once, I got extra credit for humor xD It was a really awesome teacher tho, I guess that is an important factor.

[@damiaan7021]

***** I'm not American... I'm Dutch. And it was, social studies I believe it's called in english.

[@RFC3514]

Plasmas have a wider colour gamut and deeper blacks than LCDs, and at larger sizes they become more cost effective. You won't find many 32" plasma TVs, but as you go up in size they become more common, and at 60" nearly all the top models are plasma.

[@hectormelendez4891]

Been tem years since you said this.

[@RFC3514]

@@hectormelendez4891 - And it still holds true, with OLED panels replacing plasma in the last few years. LCDs are still not a great choice for very large TVs (or gaming), although they're still a good choice for "work" monitors, since they don't have the burn-in issues that OLED has. But most people don't use 60" screens for work.

[@RFC3514]

If you sit far enough from your TV to see the entire screen, you're unlikely to notice the difference between HDTV and 4K. Most live action "digital cinema" is mastered at 2K (4K is used mainly for effect shots that are going to undergo a lot of processing). You need a really good (read, really expensive) lens to get pixel-crisp 4K images. And remember that a Bayer sensor does not capture full RGB information for each pixel, but a TV screen does display full RGB information per pixel.

[@Keepskatin]

Color and image settings is all preference. There are so many calibration settings that it's all preference. What really sets tv technologies apart,is which one has the best black color definition,zero input lag,smoothest refresh rate,and most vibrant colors. Those 3 image qualities is what makes or breaks a tv or pc monitor. It separates the Alphas from the Betas. The videophiles from the tv noobs. As for motion performance,plasma tv is best in video game use,smooth buttery frame rate,and absolutely no input lag. This is very important in fast paced games,such as call of duty,no motion blur with Plasma.

[@cameronbartie7565]

God I love a good James May video!!

[@josiahturner1433]

its RED BLUE AND GREEEN

[@josiahturner1433]

真夜中の旅団 yea but a looked at my phones screen under a microscope and saw red blue and green rectangles

[@misinformedowl9247]

Josiah Turner well it really should be red, blue and yellow as thats how you make every color, they might have been blended?

[@josiahturner1433]

naw that's how u do it with paint

[@arousedsquirrel2429]

+OFFICIALGamingJayZ CMYK is what we know as red blue yellow. It is the subtractive color system. In light RGB are the primary colors.

[@EvilTim1911]

+真夜中の旅団 As others have said, RGB are the colors produced by all displays. Differences in the frequency of light don't work the same way as mixing paints.

[@DamienJohnstonAUS]

Didnt even know I wanted to know how plasma TVs work, but now i know

[@gan9e]

James May is the most brilliant man on the planet...

[@jormot]

Is May colour blind or is there an intentional error in every episode of HeadSqueeze? I've watched two so far and I think I'll let that be it. Colour TV is composed of red, green and blue light.

[@Roshan_420]

lol

[@DrakeDragonheart]

I submitted this idea to them on Facebook a while back! Can't believe they made it! :D now I'm just eating for a Head Squeeze shirt

[@mrmike04st]

I love this stuff. Thank for this Douglas Adams style program. Don't stop Captain!

[@12voltvids]

Red Blue and Yellow?Really James? It is Red Blue and Green. We are talking additive colors here folks, not subtractive colors as in paint that absorb specific wavelengths and reflect the rest.Mix red, blue and yellow paint and you get black.Mix red, blue and green light and you get white light.

[@svenasmussen8745]

+12voltvids no an electron tube works in a different way because of the way it works

[@12voltvids]

+Bacon lover What?Are you serious? Go back to school. It doesn't matter if we are talking a CRT or plasma or LCD. We are talking primary colors, and when talking light emitting devices, we are talking additive primary colors and those are RED, GREEN and BLUE.Don't believe me, go take a magnifying glass and look at the color pixels that make up all types of color displays.The only display that uses yellow is the quatron LCD by Sharp. They added a yellow color, however it is an interpolated color, because the primary colors generated by the TV camera are Red Green and Blue.

[@hondacrxrus]

here was my response, also I am a ex-tv repairman "tv's are Red Blue and Green , not yellow. RGY are the primary colors, And Green is a secondary color. But why would they use RGB on a display? Well there is a difference in projected and reflected light. Where as RGY is used in reflective-subtractive color wheel. Think paint on the wall, where you add all colors you get black. Now think of the TV as a colored light projector you add Red and Green light you get Yellow, this is an additive process. However there is a TV that has yellow pixels also. It is the sharp quattron. As the name would suggest it has 4 pixels Red Green Blue and Yellow."

[@hondacrxrus]

we both have the same exact comment lol

[@12voltvids]

However with sharp, the yellow pixel is just advertising jargon to confuse consumers like curved screens. It does nothing, because yellow is not an encoded color. So to light up the yellow pixel, it is interpolated from the red/green mix. A much better solution was how Sony did it with their triluminous color filter, which starts with primary blue, and by wavelength dividing generates primary green and red wavelengths which generate much more accurate, and a wider color gamut for the LCD color filters. Of course in plasma and oled, these displays generate the light themselves.

[@Fuzy2K]

1:34 -- When I was a kid, I used to have nightmares about TVs chasing me around the house. That brought back a whole lot of memories... o_o

[@Schrippenmaus]

This video had a brilliant start, an awesome ending and a very interesting middle - I love your channel :]

[@helengarcia2223]

Wow spell really work's my one year broken 💔 relationship was been recover by the help of a powerful Dr Williams. Who help bring us back together within a minutes. I believe he can also help you get yours back not only that he help my Barren friend get pregnant.... All thanks to Dr Williams

[@Mikearice1]

red blue and green pixels. red and green add together to create yellow. this applies to light emiting color sources. adding colors ultimately leads to white. color absorbing pigments work differently. for inks its red blue and yellow... adding colors in that case leads to black.

[@JackFreedomcis]

+Michael Rice Exactly

[@zambizdiehard]

+Michael Rice for inks you obviusly mean cyan, magenta and yellow, am i right?

[@helengarcia2223]

Wow spell really work's my one year broken 💔 relationship was been recover by the help of a powerful Dr Williams. Who help bring us back together within a minutes. I believe he can also help you get yours back not only that he help my Barren friend get pregnant.... All thanks to Dr Williams

[@captaincal6447]

This guy has earned my subscription.

[@TechLaboratories]

Rather than a car crash analogy for how Plasma works, I prefer the "Lightning in a box" analogy, a tiny glass box with a little bolt of lightning emitting energy for a brief fraction of a second (around 6 x 10^-9s for each subpixel!)

[@Predetor2010]

What a trooool ;). I clicked the link that was meant to send me to see the largest tv then it changed to the subscribe button. LOVE it

[@sehnzeleid]

Whoever researched the background of CRT technology for this video didn't dig very deep. Tubes did become progressively slimer as time went on, of course nowhere a flat panel but still, and high definition resolutions were possible (full 1080i achievable on consumer HD CRTs/QXGA on CRT monitors). If CRT continued and didn't almost immediately die, more improvements could have been made.

[@2kBofFun]

They got slimmer and more shalow, but at the expense of extremely thick front glass. I've a B&O 32" true-flat widescreen CRT and it weighs 80kg. Net image size is 29 inch. That is NOT FUNNY. And it is still 55cm deep. Good thing is it turns towards the remote on a rotating feet, so you never see the huge back. A 80kg plasma would be like 90" or so and 10cm deep. CRT was on a dead end track. What DID happen is that Philips desigend a flat CRT tube in the nineties, in a flat glas panel with tiny electron tubes. But the project was killed by the board as it was too expensive. LCD was simply put too cheap to compete with.

[@ethangee96]

I could listen to James May explain shit all day

[@signorpippistrello]

MASSIVE amount of half knowledge here in the comments! I wish the video had ended at 0:16 with 5‘ of credits! Anyway that Snooker joke was sweet....

[@RFC3514]

Being LED-backlit does not mean they can turn off individual pixels, it just means they use an array of LEDs instead of fluorescent lights. Some use as few as 20 LEDs. Look at a big plasma vs. a big LCD in a brightly lit room (or even outdoors) and you'll see the difference in blacks. Nothing about plasma makes it "behind the times". The reason why most manufacturers prefer to push LCDs is that their profit margin is bigger. Same reason why CRTs vanished so quickly (very expensive to ship).

[@TechLaboratories]

Actually, they don't give you a new wavelength of light, they only stimulate the color cones in the eye to make the eye THINK that that wavelength is present. We have three cones - L-, M-, and S-, that respond to the peak colors of R-G-B respectively. Pigments subtract from full reflection values, meaning they start with white and build up to black, SUBTRACTING R-G-B, making the primary pigment colors Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow.

[@KhanyisoMapuma]

from 1:54 to 2:02 lmao :'D Im unable to can!

[@troyadams19]

Way to go man, putting people down in the comments section for asking legitimate questions really shows off how intelligent you are.

[@CanadaBud23]

People are confused by English. He said specifically "Three separate streams of electrons to create red, blue and yellow which can then be combined to make sense of televised snooker". He merely explained three electron guns to make those colours not the pixels that cover your screen. Then going on as a joke to use colour itself to help explain snooker across the television medium. Old TV's use yellow anyway, then one sitting here has RBY pixels, seen it dozens of times retuning the damn thing.

[@neardood1]

This is the funniest head squeeze yet. I wonder if May wrote any of the script

[@Corristo89]

Pros: Better color. Cons: High energy consumption and the risk of the "burn-in effect".

[@lbsiuk]

Crts had burn in too.

[@ender2034]

@@lbsiuk he was referring to the current competition: LED type Displays

[@HM2SGT]

Con: They aren’t made anymore & cannot be purchased.

[@dieseldiesel9292]

I've had mine for 6 years now and it has no burn in at all. It also has low power consumption, Just a little bit more than an LCD. I think those issues were only on early models.

[@dallase1]

I thought it was Red Green and Blue hence the name RGB and why Component connections are colored with 1 red plug 1 blue plug and 1 green plug along with the cables being color codded the same way.

[@Roshan_420]

It is rgb

[@hondacrxrus]

+ JAMES MAY It is Red Blue and Green , not yellow. RGY are the primary colors, And Green is a secondary color. But why would they use RGB on a display? Well there is a difference in projected and reflected light. Where as RGY is used in reflective-subtractive color wheel. Think paint on the wall, where you add all colors you get black. Now think of the TV as a colored light projector you add Red and Green light you get Yellow, this is an additive process. However there is a TV that has yellow pixels also. It is the sharp quattron. As the name would suggest it has 4 pixels Red Green Blue and Yellow.

[@EastAngliaUK]

really like the 50 inch Panasonic TX-P50S11B I picked up used on facebook last weekend its a great picture better than an LCD.

[@RogerLu]

i love this channel so much

[@RFC3514]

QWERTY was made mainly to avoid having keys stick together, not to make it as fast to type as possible. The most famous one designed to improve typing speed is probably the Dvorak layout, but by then QWERTY and its variants (AZERTY, QWERTZ) were already widespread, and the advantage in speed wasn't enough to justify changing. Same goes for Colemak, etc..

[@wolfebane7059]

Best intro ever

[@RFC3514]

There is in fact no absolute definition of "primary colours". It just means "the colours used as the basis of your palette". The only requirement (if you want to create a full spectrum) is that your primary colours be complementary to each other (i.e., every colour must be derivable from them, and the primaries should not be derivable from each other - otherwise your palette is unnecessarily big). Nearly all monitors use red, green and blue dots, but some types of film use different primaries.

[@askjeevescosby2928]

I remember back in the day the biggest black guy flex was how many plasma tvs you had.

[@webby724]

I still use a CRT TV. 36 inch Toshiba with surround sound. It's the perfect size and fits nicely in my living room. I see no real reason to upgrade as I use my laptop for everything. All I do is use my Xbox for iPlayer when I do uni work. Not bad for £41 from a recycling centre. I used to hate the CRT's with the curved screens. I'm so grateful that my TV hasn't got them!

[@elkrutarth]

we have studied in video engineering red ,blue and green electron gun.but here you said in video at 1:17 red ,blue and yellow.

[@HybridGhoul]

tv is made from primary colors(blue,red and yellow) all this colors can mix together to make secundary colors(green,orange and violet), from there you get tertiary colors...

[@SuperYouorme]

You'll need a pretty expensive LED panel to match the picture quality of a mid-end plasma. But plasmas are heavy, glare is present, are potential to screen burn-ins and power hungry. If just care about the picture quality, look no further until OLEDs come out !

[@MusicMathandTech]

Light, unlike, paint or crayons, combines colors differently, which is why in an LCD or plasma display, which you would find in a computer or TV, each pixel uses red, blue, and GREEN, subpixels, not red, blue, and YELLOW. Yellow light is made by combining red and green light. You can easily see the individual colors of the subpixels by holding a magnifying glass up to the display, or more easily, by placing a small drop of water on the display.

[@troyadams19]

Unlike most liquids, water expands when it's frozen. So, because ice is less dense than water, the gravity of the earth pulls harder on the water than it does the ice, and so the ice floats.

[@randomdrifter]

Very cute start to the video XD

[@AutoPsychotic]

That is with all screens, whether they be CRT, Plasma or LCD, because Red, Green and Blue are really the only colors (wavelengths of visible light) which can be detected by the rod cells in your eyes.

[@Eronpas]

It's either RGB which is additive (screen itself/background is black and all pixel at full intensity produce white) as you say or CMY (cyan, yellow and magenta) which is substractive (the screen produces white light by default and the colors are taken away/covered to produce the desired color) in a tv that's done with light filters. It's probably easier to imagine a printer which does the same thing; it covers up the white paper with ink. (usually CMY + black)

[@2kBofFun]

TVs don't work like print. Yes you start with white light, but then you turn it into 3 additive R G and B light sources with R,G,B filters. Then the three primaries additively mix together to show the entire spectrum. QD (O)LED does this a bit smarter, as instead of making white light first, a blue LED with a yellow phosphor to convert a part of the blue light is changed to a blue source where part is changed to red and green with a quantum dot film.

[@FireAlarmBoy1974]

1:45 excuse me but... These. Are. Not. Pixels.

[@flavio-viana-gomide]

Very good channel to learn science and practice English too.

[@IanAtkinson555]

Those are secondary colours so they work better in absorption rather than emission. That's why they're better as inks for producing colour pictures on white paper.

[@MisterRedBird]

No, It's actually Red, Yellow, and Blue. RGB is just another thing that like say Photoshop uses. But the primary colors, in which ever other color comes from are Red, Yellow, and Blue. Yellow and Blue make green

[@ivanzuvelek9721]

1:59 He went there. The edge was a bit sharp

[@MorganNye]

We're plasma tv's a flop

[@helengarcia2223]

Wow spell really work's my one year broken 💔 relationship was been recover by the help of a powerful Dr Williams. Who help bring us back together within a minutes. I believe he can also help you get yours back not only that he help my Barren friend get pregnant.... All thanks to Dr Williams

[@MrblobbyTv]

I like your videos James May :) Peace n' Blobbin'

[@alexklein455]

Wow James is not a peasant. He called HD glorious! Gotta love captain slow.

[@Shipwright1918]

Still have a couple CRT "boob tube" TV's, they still work great and have good picture quality, usually watch films and game on them, especially the old-school stuff (light guns don't work on modern TV's, after all, and ever now and then, I like to drag out Duck Hunt for a round or two.)

[@juanbaclavab]

Bring back plasma Tv's! These LCD and LED screens don't have good contrast. No matter which angle you look at them from, you can't see the deep black Plasma Tv's had.

[@hazard1024]

this year oled tvs are in production they are the new thing by next year they are gana be affordable. the blacks are great because the pixel doesn't even need to turn on giving you the deepest blacks and less electricity used overall

[@futhamucka]

JOHN JH IPS displays are a lot better, pretty much as good as a plasma

[@dantheman070]

+Dan Reader Nope, I have an IPS monitor and a Pioneer Kuro Plasma, the plasma blows the IPS outta the water in every way possible. No contest.

[@futhamucka]

+Dan P I have to disagree with that. I will admit you can still achieve better blacks with a plasma, but technology has advanced a long time since they stopped developing plasma tech. New IPS displays are a thing of beauty (and I mean quality ones, not the cheap £100 you can get from hannspree), with amazing viewing angles and awesome colour fidelity. Certainly plasmas are far from 'blowing IPS out of the water'.

[@dantheman070]

Hahaha ok kid just the fact that you could make a Comment about "cheap lcd panels" without even knowing me tells me you know nothing, you've probably never even seen a pioneer kuro or even know what one is, but I would seek one out if I were you so you can see exactly how much better they are than the ips monitor I paid $500 for. Of coarse comparing a $5000 t v to a $500 monitor is a bit like comparing apples to oranges but I didn't bring up price you did.

[@anasalwash]

If I may answer.. combination of different colors of light gives you a whole new wave length of light, i.e another color of light. While combining different colors of pigments gives another color due to the reflection of the light on them to your eyes that gives the other color. so, the mechanism of color production if different.

[@AL_O0]

Wait, where have plasma TVs gone now?

[@n68bedard]

A Laser TV requires lasers in three distinct wavelengths-red, green, and blue. While red laser diodes are commercially available, there are no commercially available green laser diodes which can provide the required power at room temperature with an adequate lifetime. Instead frequency doubling can be used to provide the green wavelen

[@nerfkidsreviews3595]

Thank you for answering my class's question! Now I can tell my class tomorrow during science!

[@gaergrim]

LED TVs aren't backlit 1:1, and can certainly not turn off individual pixels. The black levels of plasmas are their biggest selling point for many, and are unrivalled by any LCD technology, LED or otherwise. I find plasma superior for movies, and am happy to be "stuck" on it...

[@TheMagicalTouch]

Torque is the spinning power on the driving axel I think , so fwd or awd or rwd. Or maybe, torque is the combination of spinning power and weight of the vehicle. That's why it's easier to do a burnout with a vehicle that has more torque, because more power to the driving wheels and less weight to hold the car down.

[@danmark312]

nice start

[@ZigSputnik]

Tv and monitor displays always use red, green and blue. These are the cone colours in our eyes and no other combination will work, since this is additive colour mixing of lights. Yellow is only used in paints and dyes, along with cyan and magenta; which is subtractive colour mixing. A very fundamental misunderstanding in this video.

[@detaart]

I would think it took quite a bit of effort. Not only is it a totally custom panel, but the electronics to drive it would also have to be entirely customized.

[@Matticitt]

It depends. LCDs are more power efficent, have thinner bezels and are thinner but have washed out blacks and are expensive. Plasma TVs are nowadays much cheaper, have excellent contrast and are brighter while also offering ridiculous 800Hz refresh rate excellent for fast movieng objects. Also great for 3D. They are heavier and thicker though. Also use much more power. Many home theatre enthusiasts will tell you plasmas are best, and they really are but mainly for home cinema, not watching tv.

[@AuntyGoogol]

Oh the sarcasm! Drip drip drip! Luv it.

[@jayvee5858]

Watching this because of Captain Slow. :)

[@R3bel02]

That's for printing, CMYK. When you add paint you eventually get black, when you add light you get white.

[@volikoto]

James rocks!!!

[@xenon9887]

I'll be sad the day my plasma dies as it looks better than any LCD tv I have seen. Even the top of the line LCD panels have uneven back lighting, with blacks that are dark grey at best. No amount of local dimming has fixed that. There was a reason that Panasonic plasmas won all of the picture quality contests while they were still produced. I have high hopes OLED will take over the reigns from LCD and continue to fall in price.

[@BoxCarBoy12]

I want Captain Slow as one of my college professors. He'd somehow make class interesting by being boring!

[@AutoPsychotic]

Yellow is simulated by dithering patterns of Red and Green, specifically. The Blue is absent from otherwise "white" light in order to produce "yellow", in this case. The exception being Sharp's "Quattron" line of LED TVs, which has Red, Green, Blue AND Yellow cells, in case you wanted... more yellow, in your pictures? o.O

[@helengarcia2223]

Wow spell really work's my one year broken 💔 relationship was been recover by the help of a powerful Dr Williams. Who help bring us back together within a minutes. I believe he can also help you get yours back not only that he help my Barren friend get pregnant.... All thanks to Dr Williams

[@LACHandLOAD]

You are correct!

[@AutoPsychotic]

You are correct.

[@Faldoras]

primary colours are red blue and yellow in paint, but in terms of light, it is actually red green and blue (indeed RGB).

[@Vegzillar]

Literally yes.

[@leighgate2]

Had to buy an LED tv last August because my plasma tv stopped working. What I discovered is that my electrical bill has been cut in HALF since getting the LED. The first month I thought it was a fluke, but for the last 7 months, my electrical bill has been 1/2 the cost I was paying when I had the plasma tv.

[@AMalas]

Its known that a plasma can take 100 Kw while an LED only 20 Kw depending on the manufacturer. But I never thought that it could lead to this much difference

[@arousedsquirrel2429]

+Anas Malas Yeah, it sounds ridiculous that your TV would consume more than 50% of your total electricity usage.

[@AMalas]

Aroused Squirrel​ you probably dont use air con, a heater, a hoover, only use the microwave for 5 minutes a day, and have a lone led power saver bulb in the living room and kitchen, and another in the bathroom. But even then a TV couldn't have that much difference... Unless it is like 100 inches early 2005... Theen maybe

[@arousedsquirrel2429]

Anas Malas Exactly.

[@leighgate2]

+Anas Malas But my electrical bill has been cut in half. I'm not strict about turning lights off. That behavior hasn't changed, yet the electrical bill is half what I paid when I had the plasma tv. It created an incredible amount of heat (I remember that). It had 4 fans across the back inside to cool it down. It was a 42 inch Panasonic plasma. There is no doubt it was the plasma tv using all of that juice.

[@solmackay]

nice vid

[@mattfox14]

I can remember trying to pull a super heavy 32 inch crt up the stairs using a towel

[@KingIjazMalik]

So Informatic Show i Love It

[@helengarcia2223]

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[@lazertag720]

Why was the beginning so funny lol.

[@LokiKeanu]

i think yer right but recently a lot have come out in RGBY yellow has been added as well to compensate

[@MarchosArcade]

Question - can I lay my 40" plasma flat screen up to make a virtual pinball , will it still work ?

[@TechLaboratories]

YUV encoding, yes, but not reproduction - To generate a YUV signal you start with RGB, and to display a YUV signal you have to convert it back to RGB

[@detaart]

Good answer, thank you!

[@KaplawawaowPictures]

In the future, sure. But the only 4k content available now is exotic rainforrest birds in slow motion type things that comes preinstalled on the device itself

[@KajoFox]

Games do. And thus consoles do. And thus TV's do. And for home cinemas with big TVs you do.

[@p1t3n6]

it is the primary color of visible light. on the other hand, yellow is the primary of printing color.

[@sjwimmel]

4K is not needed for tv's. Most people sit at quite a distance from their tv. And your eyes have a resolution too. You can see about 60 pixels per degree. So if your tv is, say, 15 degrees of your visual field it would take 900 pixels in that direction for you to see at maximum resolution.

[@RFC3514]

Well, for a large computer screen (ex., to replace 2 monitor), 4K can and does make sense, because it lets you sit close while still having good pixel density, and just have more space. On a PC you often focus on just 1/4 of the screen area, and you tend to lean back when watching fullscreen videos. With a TV, you're (nearly) always far enough to see the whole screen, and the image is limited by the stream / camera sensor / lens resolution anyway, so you gain very little from 2K / HD to 4K.

[@nikoolix]

How poor this comment aged lol. I can easily see the difference between fullHD and 4K on a 48" from 2-3m.

[@RFC-3514]

@@nikoolix - Most people don't sit 2 metres away from a 48" screen. And the comment hasn't "aged" at all, because human eyes still have the same angular resolution, and both HD and 4K still mean the same (and a lot of "4K" content is still not _actually_ 4K, but hopefully that will continue to improve with time). If you compare two panels of the same type and generation, one 4K and one 2K (or HD), at a normal TV viewing distance, being fed the same signal, they'll be practically indistinguishable. As computer screens, the difference will be instantly obvious.

[@Gabriel_OGDC]

I’ve got a plasma TV that’s currently 16 years old and still somehow working…. (I know I’m tempting fate, I kinda want it to die soon so I can get an OLED…)

[@huge_balls]

Just buy the oled and keep both.. i have 2 OLEDs and 4 plasmas haha

[@n68bedard]

Laser color television (in short, Laser TV), or Laser color video display utilizes two or more individually modulated optical (laser) rays of different colors to produce a combined spot that is scanned and projected across the image plane by a polygon-mirror system or less effectively by optoelectronic means to produce a color-television display. The special case of one ray reduces the system to a monochromatic display