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?
jr

Vizio has the VP322, a 32-inch set.

Yes The Vizio 32". No longer made. I repaired 3 of them. All with bad cheap Chinese caps.

I've recapped a few of those VP322s too. Not a bad picture, and works great for warming your hands on a cold morning

Thanks!
I have heard of Sony and Panasonic plasma sets in the 36-37" range... has anybody seen one of those?

jr

I have a 37" Panasonic plasma in the other room that needs a board that I cant seem to find for a reasonable price

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.

Charles

Philips also had a 32, the 32FD9954. I have had a few of those across my bench.

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.

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.

The one with the DVI input :thmbsp: .. The KE-32TS1 is component-only.

Charles

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.