Over the years, our means of watching television has greatly changed. Televisions are changing with the tide and you can get more TV that takes up less space, today. Advances in science and engineering have provided us with plasma TVs and LCD TVs that provide better images in a smaller space, even though the screens, themselves, are larger. When consumers enter local stores, they typically don't know much about the various types of set that are available. Knowing a little bit about each kind of set will allow you to choose the set that works best for your needs.

For the past four decades, televisions ran on cathode ray tube technology. With a tube set, the larger the screen, the larger the television set, and not always in a consistent pattern. These sets were large and difficult to move. The weight, alone, was impossible for any one person to handle, by themselves.

Plasma TVs give us wider screens without making the entire set larger. These plasma TVs are not cumbersome and hard to manage, even if you're trying to lift or move one, by yourself. The great thing about this technology is that you can get a much larger set without sacrificing space or your back. Plasma TVs use electricity fused through free floating gas ions that are known as plasma to create light and defuse the image to your viewing screen.

Plasma televisions have matching quality images to cathode ray tubes, with very little difference in quality. However, there are many advantages to owning a plasma TV, even more than owning an LCD TV. There is a larger viewing angle present with a plasma TV and the brightness of the picture on the screen is much better viewed in the dark than with a tube television.

Plasma TVs are great, there's no doubt about that. However, much like anything else, there are cons to owning plasma as compared to an LCD television. Plasma TVs require a huge amount of energy, so much that your electric bill may raise by 25 percent or more. Panasonic, the leading manufacturer of plasma televisions, claims that they have made great progress in reducing the amount of energy required to run their sets. Plasma TVs originally had some problems with image burn in; the image would be frozen into the screen and ghost images were encountered. This flaw seems to have been fixed over the past few years. LCD TVs don't do a very good job of reflecting a glare, but new strides are being made constantly where this is concerned.

Buyers now have so many more choices and options to select that it's hard to fathom the fact that once, we had no choices in televisions. Now that you have learned a bit about the kinds of sets that are available on the market, you can make the right choice.

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