What is Plasma and LCD Technology?
At first glance LCD panels and plasma screens look very much the same,
however both use totally different technologies to display your favorite movie, Xbox game or sporting event. A plasma display panel consists of thousands of pixel cells, each containing a mixture of rare gases (usually neon and xenon). Electrodes charge the cells with precise electrical voltages to excite these gases causing them to glow and produce a certain colour.
LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screens make use of millions of crystals suspended in a liquid that is sandwiched between two glass panels. When these liquid crystal cells are charged the crystals “untwist” to let a certain amount of light, generated by a fluorescent lamp behind the panels, through. The amount of voltage applied to the liquid crystal determines how much light is filtered and the resulting colour you see on the screen.