Welcome To Media Solutions - Wesbury, New York

Here's The Skinny On Those Ultra Thin, Ultra Cool TVs
"Space: the final frontier."

When Gene Roddenberry wrote these words for his illustrious Star Trek captains, he was referring, of course, to outer space -- not the "inner space" of your home theater. Since the dawn of television, we have all lived with "big boxes" persistently encroaching on the space in our living rooms, media rooms and dens. And, even though electronic circuitry has become smaller and smaller, and more of a television's size is made up of screen space than ever before, the addition of all the audio and video components that comprise a home theater has only continued to decrease our living space. Those of us in matrimonial relationships have to deal with the domestic necessity of keeping the clutter down in order to keep our better halves from leaving town. It's a constant balancing act between the love of movies and the love of your life.

But wait! Help is on the way. Take back your space with a plasma television!
Make It So
Now, you too can watch the worlds of information and entertainment come alive on a plasma display that looks more like artwork than hardware. I mean, if you want, you can still buy a 40" HDTV-ready television with a 27" deep waistline, or you can choose to embrace the future and grace your viewing wall with a 50" HDTV-ready plasma display that is less than 4" deep! Both for the exploration of the cosmos and for making your home theater's universe more livable -- the final frontier is here, it's thin, and it's plasma.

But Really...How Do They Squeeze Such Big Pictures Into A Skinny Little Box?
Gas -- and no, I don't mean the kind you put in your car.

It goes something like this. High Voltage electricity shoots into a gap between two specially treated, ultra thin sheets of glass. Within these two pieces of glass are hundreds of thousands (and in the case of HDTV, literally millions) of tiny screen elements called pixels. Each pixel is sheathed within a protective glass envelope. The pixels are transparent. On each pixel are the three primary color phosphors (red, green and blue). Attached to the phosphors are electrodes that are also transparent. When high Voltage electricity is introduced, it produces a plasma gas that hits those electrodes, which then creates a chain reaction that excites their phosphors, causing them to turn the appropriate color -- and voila! An image is created on the screen. Because these pixels are ultra small and because they are very closely spaced to each other, the television display doesn't require any real depth. That's why the display is so thin that you can mount it on a wall or ceiling. Plasma displays deliver bright, vivid images. They are not affected by magnetic fields, so your speakers don't have to be shielded and can be placed as close to the screen as you wish. They perform well in most ambient light conditions and, unlike rear projectors, provide a 160-degree viewing angle, so every seat in the house is a good one. Most plasmas are monitors, which means they don't have built-in TV tuners. Of course, all of them accept direct connections to cable, satellite and/or antenna feeds

The Picture of Reliability

Plasma displays are highly reliable. A major brand, factory sales rep told me that once the phosphors fire they will never burn-out, unlike a CRT tube in a conventional TV. One word of caution: Plasma TVs should always be installed by a qualified technician. If you're going to mount your plasma on a wall or ceiling, it should be mounted on the correct brackets and anchored into wall studs to ensure safety. But, no matter what your final choice is, and no matter how you want to mount your plasma display, Media Solutions can show you the way to spectacular home theater images with plasma television.
Engage!