How does a plasma TV work?
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Everything you need should be on this site:\n\nhttp://electronics.howstuffworks.com/plasma-display2.htm
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I have a box that allows me to switch which device is being used for input.  Basically everything goes into the box and then you connect the box to the tv.  I'm not sure what it's called, but I got it from wal-mart for like 20 bucks.
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You have probably got a 50/60 Hz tv as they are the most common. Plasma screens are not made of glass.
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I am assuming that:\nYou want to use your TV as your only monitor.\nYou use Windows XP.\n\nFirst, I would like to warn you that a computer screen image on a TV is not clear and often hard to see. This is caused by the fact that non-HD TVs have considerably less screen resolution than most computer monitors. However, if you only want to watch movies, the picture quality should be the same.\n\nThe red, white, and yellow connections are called composite. If both your computer and TV have them I see no reason why you cannot use a cable to connect them (as long as the connections are going out on your computer and in on your TV). You probably should check your computer’s and/or video card’s owner’s manual to be sure that the connections on your computer are out.\n\nOnce you are sure that you have the correct connections and you have the cables you need; turn off your computer, unplug your monitor (if you have one plugged in), and plug the cables in. Then turn your computer on. I think this will accomplish what you want. \n\nIf you have any questions, feel free to contact me using the link on my Q&A page.\n\nIf this answer doesn’t help, please provide more information such as:\nDo you want to use your TV as your only monitor, have your TV and monitor display identical images, or use a type of dual view? \nWhat OS are you using?\nWhat video card do you use?\nAnd anything else that may be relevant.
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Plasma is the 4th state of matter, but it does not have a consistency of jelly. It is actually simply gas which has been ionized, or an electron has been freed from a number of atoms in the gas.\n\nThis makes plasma very conductive, like a metal (unlike a gas). Also, plasma molecules travel together, unlike in a gas. The differences make it another state of matter altogether.\n\nPlasma is very difficult to experiment with in the laboratory, but you can learn a lot about it. Most of the matter in the universe is in the plasma state (much more than gas, solid, or liquid), but to contain pure plasma on earth would require a huge amount of energy or magnetic field. Plasma is what makes the sun shine, and the sun can contain lots of it because of its huge gravity field. Still, you can find ways to do plasma research (plasma is found in common fire and lightning during thunderstorms).\n\nYou can also read about fusion reactors, which use plasma as a great source of energy. We haven't developed this very well, but it is amazing to learn about. A famous experiment of a fusion reactor is the "Tokamak" by the Russians.
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plug the cable into your converter.\nplug your tv into the converter\nplug your dvd player into your tv\nplug your vcr into your tv\nturn your tv on
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How light guns work\n\nThe "light gun" is so named because it uses light as its method of detecting where on screen you are targeting. The name leads one to believe that the gun itself emits a beam of light, but in fact most light guns actually receive light through a photoreceptor diode in the gun barrel. [Re].\n\nThere are two versions of this technique that are commonly used, but the concept is the same: when the trigger of the gun is pulled, the screen is blanked out to black, and the diode begins reception. All or part of the screen is painted white in a way that allows the computer to judge where the gun is pointing, based on when the diode detects light. The user of the light gun notices little or nothing, because the period in which the screen is blank is usually only a fraction of a second.\n\nSequential targets\n\nThe first detection method, used by the Zapper, involves drawing each target sequentially in white light after the screen blacks out. The computer knows that if the diode detects light as it is drawing a square (or after the screen refreshes), that is the target the gun is pointed at. Essentially, the diode tells the computer whether or not you hit something, and for n objects, the sequence of the drawing of the targets tell the computer which target you hit after 1 + ceil(log2(n)) refreshes (one refresh to determine if any target at all was hit and ceil(log2(n)) to do a binary search for the object that was hit).\n\nAn interesting side effect of this is that on poorly designed games, often a player can point the gun at a light bulb, pull the trigger and hit the first target every time. Better games account for this by detecting if all targets appear to match - that would mean cheating.\n\nCathode ray timing\n\nThe second method, used by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System's Super Scope and computer light pens is more elaborate but more accurate.\n\nThe trick to this method lies in the nature of the cathode ray tube inside the video monitor. (CRTs were the only affordable TV monitors in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when this method was popularized.) The screen is drawn by a scanning electron beam that travels across the screen starting at the top until it hits the end, and then moves down to update the next line. This is done repeatedly until the entire screen is drawn, and appears instantaneous to the human eye as it is done very quickly.\n\nWhen the player pulls the trigger, the computer (often assisted by the display circuitry) times how long it takes the electron beam to excite the phosphor at the location the gun is pointed at. It then calculates the targeted position based on the monitor's horizontal refresh rate (the fixed amount of time it takes the beam to get from the left to right side of the screen). Either the computer provides a time base for the horizontal refresh rate through the controller's connector (as in the Super Scope), or the gun reads the composite video signal through a T-connector on the A/V cable (as in the GunCon 2). Once the computer knows where the gun is pointed, it can tell through collision detection if it coincides with the target or not.\n\nMany guns of this type (including the Super Scope) ignore red light, as red phosphors have a much slower rate of decay than green or blue phosphors. So some (but not all) games brighten the entire screen for a frame in order to get a more reliable fix on the position.\n\nDisplay timing is useless with plasma, LCD, and DLP, which refresh all pixels at the same time.\n\nCombining the methods\n\nSome light guns designed for sequential targeting are not timed precisely enough to get an (X, Y) reading against the video signal, but they can use a combination of the two methods. First the screen is brightened and the response time is measured as in cathode ray timing, but the computer measures only which scanline was hit and not which horizontal pixel was hit. This does not need nearly as fast a timer that pure ca
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Plasma technology differs from other display systems in as much as here in each pixel a source of light is produced. Between the flat glass panels loaded electrodes cause tiny explosions of xenon gas, which cause an ultraviolet light radiation, which for its part produces red, green and blue phosphorus light at the screen back. \n\nContrary to the conventional cathode ray tubes, with which a picture is divided into a rapid succession by pixels on the screen, all plasma display pixels become at the same time "illuminate". Therefore the plasma picture develops spontaneously and is extremely sharp. It extends evenly into all corners of the screen - whole without distortion or flares.\n\nAstonishing colors\n\nThe plasma technology ensures a brilliant, sharp image quality of unbelievable clarity by 256 gray tones and altogether 16.7 million colors.\n\nPrecise image quality\n\nOwing to the fact that in the case of the plasma display brightness, color and contrast of each individual screen pixel are stopped, it does not develop brightness differences between the center of the screen and the boundary regions. In addition the square pixels provide for an absolutely precise image replication, freely from the distortions which one at the edges of cathode ray tubes you have to consider with.\n\n160-Grad viewing angle \n\nFlat plasma panels offer opposite shining crystal displays (LCD) and screens with rear-projection a substantial advantage, if as the phosphorus-coated screen surface and the picture is stimulated directly is not projected on it.\n\nTherefore the plasma technology can obtain an unusually broad viewing angle - both in vertical and in horizontal direction. This makes a clearer view for a larger spectator number possible on the screen.\n\nNo magnetic disturbances \n\nDifferently than cathode ray tubes plasma displays do not shoot electrons at the screen and therefore also by the proximity of magnetic fields are not disturbed. That means that plasma panels can be set up problem-free in the proximity of loudspeakers or other strong magnetic sources, without thereby picture distortions or disturbances in the color equilibrium are caused.\n\nMultimedia flexibility\n\nPlasma displays support variety of sceen sizes and work both with Pal and with NTSC video format. Many plasma support additionally also SECAM and HDTV. All displays support multimedia-applications and offer a RS232-Terminal, so that the user can switch problem-free between input signals from different sources. Multi lnput terminals permit even the announcement of divided pictures* on only one plasma display.
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Yeah, exactly, you want to get a graphics card with TV-out. As you probably guessed this means it will send the signal out to the TV. It will most likely use a yellow S-Video cable, and you will need to buy a cable that will come from your sound card with the red and white (or black) audio channels. If your TV doesn't accept S-Video then you should be able to pick up an S-Video to Scart adapter for about $5.
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In general the video card will not recognise a TV attached to a s-video port unless it is hooked up and powered on when the machine is booted.  The NVIDIA video card should recognise and enable the s-video output then.
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you need a video card that has TV-out ability.\n\nplease note that vid cards of recent manufacture usually only have an S-video out connection.  If you need a coaxil connection for your older TV, (like mine,) you may need to look for it online.\n\nhope this helps.
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You need a TV tuner card. If you want a picture large enough to fill the whole screen get an HDTV tuner card. But DONT EVER GET AN ATI TUNER CARD (they have tons of glitches, bugs, and problems).
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Take a look at a utility called PowerStrip from here: http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm\n\nIt's designed for working with custom resolutions and refresh rates. You can also find more information about hooking up TVs to computers at AVSforum.com
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As stated above plasma is the fourth state of matter.  High pressures are not needed.  Sparks in the air are essentially plasmas.  Plasma cleaning ovens typically use low pressure noble gases.  To create a plasma, all you essentially need is a high voltage, high enough to ionize air or whatever gas you are ionizing.  To maintain the plasma, you will need some current.  There are many tricks to create plasmas such as using radio frequency AC power supplies.  \n\nEssentially plasma is just a state of matter where most of the particles are ions.  To understand plasma physics, you need to know about fluid dynamics and electromagnetism.  The reason it is a fourth state is that because of the effects of the charges on the particles, it behaves differently from a simple gas or liquid.
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If your TV has a DIV input that is capable of processing computer signal, then you should be in business. Other wise, you'll need a DVI or an SVGA to TV addapter. They can be expencive, and the picture quality is really bad in most cases. Just look on the back of your TV and see if it has a DVI input. They get the Modle number of your TV. Do a web search on it, get as much info on the tv as you can. Find out what it's DVI input will work with and what it won't. Some DVI inputs will only work with HD Recievers. You see this problem alot with Sonys. \n\nAnyways, thats the best info I've got
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Be aware that because of the different systems used between computer monitors and televisions, you will likely get a VERY low resolution in the television and everything will be blurry.\n\nThe TV should have tri-prong A/V input (white, red, yellow), you can get an adapter to run the digital monitor  cable from your computer into a tri-prong A/V cable, and that should work..
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you need a card tv card that has a svideo output.