1.   Although prices for plasma televisions manufactured by companies like NEC, Sony, Fujitsu and Pioneer have dropped somewhat, they are still very high.

2.   But now flat-panel plasma televisions are on sale at mainstream television retailers nationwide.

3.   But now flat-panel plasma televisions are on sale at Circuit City and other mainstream television retailers nationwide.

4.   Higher-resolution plasma televisions cost a lot more.

5.   Instead of a gun, plasma televisions use an electrified gas to activate the phosphors through a process using ultraviolet light.

6.   Interest in plasma televisions appears to be growing.

7.   Much is made of the so-called native resolutions of plasma televisions.

8.   Plasma televisions work by electrically charging tiny sealed cells of gas to produce an image.

9.   The flat-screen concept is about to go into a higher technological orbit with the plasma gas television.