During the early sixties, the University of Illinois used regular televisions as computer monitors for their in-house computer network. Donald Bitzer, Gene Slottow, and Robert Willson the inventors listed on the plasma display patent researched plasma displays as an alternative to the cathode ray tube-based televisions sets being used.
A cathode-ray display has to constantly refresh, which is okay for video and broadcasts but bad for displaying computer graphics. By July of , the team had built the first plasma display panel with one single cell.
Today's plasma televisions use millions of cells. After , television broadcast companies considered developing plasma television as an alternative to televisions using cathode ray tubes. However, LCD or liquid crystal displays made possible flat-screen television that squelched the further commercial development of plasma display. It took many years for plasma televisions to became successful and they finally did due to the efforts of Larry Weber.
University of Illinois author Jamie Hutchinson wrote that Larry Weber's prototype sixty-inch plasma display, developed for Matsushita and bearing the Panasonic label, combined the size and resolution necessary for HDTV with the addition of thinness. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.
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Finally, here is a video of Donald Bitzer himself discussing the creation of the plasma display. Sources File:Platovterm Think of a plasma TV as a neon lamp. There are horizontal and vertical electrode grids and a phosphor array. But the genesis of the technology had nothing to do with the entertainment industry.
In this case, it was the need for a high-quality display for computer-based education. Donald L Bitzer, Prof. The technology evolved fast — literally from lab glassware to the best TV screens — in a very short space of time. However, as would be the case with any technology product for the consumer market, there was a long period of low-volume but high-cost production.
The first manufacturer to take the dive into making plasma in serious numbers was Fujitsu, making a inch screen in It was the first time that a large TV was available in a form that could be mounted on a wall.
This was a huge leap forward from the furniture-piece CRT TV sets that were boxy and heavy, although sturdy. Remember, also, that it was a strange world where small screens and large screens LCD and projection respectively were flat, but the ones in the middle inch to inch were curved. Plasma TVs had come a long way since its first iteration.
It went on to dominate the consumer market for TV screens and provided one of the best viewing experiences available.
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