1.   Another entrant in the visual display sweepstakes is the hang-on-the-wall flat-screen television, which uses a plasma display.

2.   As a result, plasma displays are dimmer than conventional television sets.

3.   Brightness measurements show that it projects more light than any other plasma display on the market right now.

4.   In place of crystals, a plasma display uses tiny pixel cells of electrically charged gases to produce a high-resolution image.

5.   It may not seem immediately intuitive, but that means plasma displays cannot render the color black.

6.   Plasma displays require no independent source of lighting.

7.   Plasma displays use ionized gases that are excited by an electric voltage and create light for the image.

8.   Plasma displays, a more recent and costly large-screen panel system for computers, also fall short when fine detail is necessary.

9.   Plasmaco is one of the American companies working on an alternative to liquid crystals known as plasma display.

10.   Verchik also indicated that the sense of depth and dimensionality of a plasma display was no match for a tube television.