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Old 01-14-2012, 03:18 PM
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Smaller Plasma DTVs

As I understand it, fabrication of small high resolution plasma screens is difficult/expensive and perhaps even theoretically limited. Has anybody ever seen a plasma set smaller than 42" or so?
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Old 01-14-2012, 04:07 PM
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Vizio has the VP322, a 32-inch set.
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Old 01-14-2012, 10:17 PM
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Yes The Vizio 32". No longer made. I repaired 3 of them. All with bad cheap Chinese caps.
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Old 01-14-2012, 10:39 PM
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I've recapped a few of those VP322s too. Not a bad picture, and works great for warming your hands on a cold morning
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Old 01-15-2012, 11:22 AM
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I have heard of Sony and Panasonic plasma sets in the 36-37" range... has anybody seen one of those?

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Old 01-15-2012, 02:34 PM
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I have a 37" Panasonic plasma in the other room that needs a board that I cant seem to find for a reasonable price
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Old 12-11-2012, 10:57 AM
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I have a 32" (16:9) Sony KE-32TS1; their first plasma set. That was the smallest AFAIK, but I bet there are smaller plasma displays for purposes other than consumer TV.

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Old 12-11-2012, 04:14 PM
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Philips also had a 32, the 32FD9954. I have had a few of those across my bench.
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Old 12-12-2012, 10:44 AM
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I guess we would be talking Color video displays here, but who remembers the 9" or so orange plasma displays on the Compaq Portable II and Portable III PC's Those "Lunchbox" style PC's and some AC powered Toshiba "Laptops" used them, others as well I am sure. There where also very large plasma displays (30"37") available for things like DTP as early as 1984-85.
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Old 12-12-2012, 01:55 PM
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I had a friend that had several of the early laptops and suitcase computers with the orange plasma screens.

My brother had an early Viewsonic - I think, it was definitely made by a computer monitor company - plasma set in 2002 - it got so hot that you would burn your hand when you touched the top of it.

I have a Sony KE-32TS2 that a friend gave to me - it just needed a new power supply - works well.
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Old 12-13-2012, 12:06 PM
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I have a Sony KE-32TS2 that a friend gave to me - it just needed a new power supply - works well.
The one with the DVI input .. The KE-32TS1 is component-only.

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Old 12-13-2012, 03:40 PM
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I believe it's difficult to make the structures necessary for simultaneous good contrast, long phosphor life, high pixel count and good efficiency in smaller size. In other words, if you keep the same cell size, you can get similar performance, but then the panel is not high definition.
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