From 1997 to much of the first decade of the 2000s, plasma televisions have long conquered the high end. It was the most coveted technology at that time when the user wanted to choose a panel with the best image quality. However, as we mentioned in our previous article about these televisions, LCD was slowly eating the toastbecause technology was developing at a rapid pace.

One of the most outstanding advantages of LCD is lower electricity consumption, thus generating less heat and prolonging its service life. LG wanted to continue to bet heavily on plasma televisions, although the manufacturer had to solve the consumption problem and other issues if they were not willing to give up on the technology. This is how PLED panels were born in 2012.

PLED, a special LG plasma vitamin

PLED comes from the English abbreviation. Pixel Light-Emitting Display. According to the company, this technology brought the best plasma and the best LED televisionsBy combining both technologies to try to deliver a higher image quality, it also drastically reduces power consumption at the then LCD panel values.

When used, a PLED panel is like a plasma panel with vitamins. Therefore, it is worth remembering how plasma panels work to explain their differences. And it is that a plasma television screen consists of two layers of glass, between which there are small glasses. Xenon and Neon gas cells When this is stimulated by an electrical impulse, it becomes plasma and causes the inner phosphor coating of the cell to glow.

Here’s what the PLED panel does compared to plasma: reduce these cellsmakes each subpixel in a separate cell. This causes the gases to be in a much higher concentration. Cells also contain a denser layer of phosphorus.

This concentration means that far less electrical energy is required to create the plasma inside each cell. In this way, the first Advantages of PLED: Electricity consumption is less than conventional plasma and very close to that of LCD televisions.

By consuming less, it also generates less heat and wears less. A maximum power plasma television will last about 50,000 hours before it starts to fail. This figure is usually proportional to what would be the normal domestic consumption. The resulting figure is about 100,000 hours, the number we all know.

In the case of pledgehighest concentration of Xenon and phosphorus Increases lifespan up to 80,000 hours excessive use (such as at an airport panel) or 160,000 in a house.

Another of the advantages that PLED continues to protect from plasma televisions is self-emitting LEDs. This way, each pixel can be turned on and off without backlighting from an LED panel on the back of the TV. This technology is similar to OLED, although organic LED diodes are not.

This advantage allows PLED and plasma to have better contrast than an LED panel. However, PLED also has an advantage over plasma: The screen is completely matte.reduces the reflection that can be created by any light spot in the environment. And due to the nature of plasma panels, their glass should always be bright. Sometimes this glare was reduced with anti-reflective coatings, but this reduced the glare emitted from the panel.

PLED also shares the advantages of LED panels

While we are clear that PLED is like a kind of ‘super plasma’, this technology also incorporates the features of LED televisions. electronic image processing, this is the same as that of an LED panel. This eliminates the “motion blur” feel of plasma TVs in high-speed images because, like LED technology, PLEDs have three image processors that interleave frames.

Despite the decrease in consumption, PLED displays continued to consume slightly more than LCD panels. Also, they share the same issue as plasma displays: “burn” effect when playing still images for a long time.

OLED peeping from the corner

Although it is a great advance over plasma panels, the technology has not been fully captured. Additionally, these were presented in a context: OLED was taking more and more shape (although still very expensive to manufacture) and LCD-LED panels were much cheaper to manufacture. In addition, with these technologies, the use of elements such as phosphorus and gas has been completely eliminated, and it has become more and more dependent on electronic and digital processing.

In fact, if you asked LG at the time what panels would be in the future, the company quickly responded with OLED. And indeed, it’s the technology LG has bet on the most in recent years.