Sony PFM 42V1 Plasma TV. Available in Silver or Black, the PFM-42V1/S / PFM-42V1/B incorporates a WVGA plasma display panel that achieves a high brightness and high contrast ratio. Its slim and lightweight design combined with precise images and smooth picture edges make it ideal for home entertainment as well as digital signage at retail stores, shopping malls, airports, train stations, entertainment venues, hospitality rooms - and anywhere you need to grasp the attention of family, guests or visitors. Click here for Sony PDF Brochure.

Main Specifications

Product Description	Sony PFM 42V1 - plasma panel - PDP - 42"
Product Type	Plasma panel - color
Dimensions (WxDxH)	40.7 in x 3.3 in x 24.8 in
Weight	59.5 lbs
Diagonal Size	42"
Technology	Plasma (PDP)
Image Aspect Ratio	16:9
Sound Output Mode	Stereo
Remote Control	Remote control - infrared
Power	AC 110/230 V ( 50/60 Hz )

General
Product Type	Plasma panel - color
Width	40.7 in
Depth	3.3 in
Height	24.8 in
Weight	59.5 lbs
Enclosure Color	Silver or Black
Television
Series	PlasmaPro
Technology	Plasma (PDP)
Diagonal Size	42"
Resolution	852 x 480
Image Aspect Ratio	16:9
Pixel Pitch	1.08 mm
Display Menu Language	English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese
Color Temperature Control	Yes
Additional Features	Auto power off, on-screen menu, anti-reflection coating, screen saver
Video Features
SDTV Compatible	Yes
HDTV Compatible	Yes
Closed Caption Capability	Yes
Remote Control
Type	Remote control - infrared
Audio System
Sound Output Mode	Stereo
External Speakers Amplifier Power (Total)	14 Watt
Connections
Connector Type	1 x composite video input ( BNC ) - rear 1 x composite video output ( BNC ) - rear 1 x S-Video input ( 4 pin mini-DIN ) - rear 2 x VGA input ( 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15) ) - rear 1 x audio line-in ( RCA phono x 2 ) - rear 2 x audio line-in ( mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm ) - rear 1 x audio line-out ( mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm ) - rear 1 x serial ( 9 pin D-Sub ) - rear 2 x speakers output - rear
Miscellaneous
Cables Included	DVI cable
Power
Power Device	Power supply - external
Voltage Required	AC 110/230 V ( 50/60 Hz )
Power Consumption Operational	360 Watt

What is Plasma?
The central element in a fluorescent light is a plasma, a gas made up of free-flowing ions (electrically charged atoms) and electrons (negatively charged particles). Under normal conditions, a gas is mainly made up of uncharged particles. That is, the individual gas atoms include equal numbers of protons (positively charged particles in the atom's nucleus) and electrons. The negatively charged electrons perfectly balance the positively charged protons, so the atom has a net charge of zero.

If you introduce many free electrons into the gas by establishing an electrical voltage across it, the situation changes very quickly. The free electrons collide with the atoms, knocking loose other electrons. With a missing electron, an atom loses its balance. It has a net positive charge, making it an ion.

In a plasma with an electrical current running through it, negatively charged particles are rushing toward the positively charged area of the plasma, and positively charged particles are rushing toward the negatively charged area.

In this mad rush, particles are constantly bumping into each other. These collisions excite the gas atoms in the plasma, causing them to release photons of energy.

Xenon and neon atoms, the atoms used in plasma screens, release light photons when they are excited. Mostly, these atoms release ultraviolet light photons, which are invisible to the human eye. But ultraviolet photons can be used to excite visible light photons, as we'll see in the next section.

Inside the Display: Gas and Electrodes
The xenon and neon gas in a plasma television is contained in hundreds of thousands of tiny cells positioned between two plates of glass. Long electrodes are also sandwiched between the glass plates, on both sides of the cells. The address electrodes sit behind the cells, along the rear glass plate. The transparent display electrodes, which are surrounded by an insulating dielectric material and covered by a magnesium oxide protective layer, are mounted above the cell, along the front glass plate.

Both sets of electrodes extend across the entire screen. The display electrodes are arranged in horizontal rows along the screen and the address electrodes are arranged in vertical columns. As you can see in the diagram below, the vertical and horizontal electrodes form a basic grid.

To ionize the gas in a particular cell, the plasma display's computer charges the electrodes that intersect at that cell. It does this thousands of times in a small fraction of a second, charging each cell in turn.

When the intersecting electrodes are charged (with a voltage difference between them), an electric current flows through the gas in the cell. As we saw in the last section, the current creates a rapid flow of charged particles, which stimulates the gas atoms to release ultraviolet photons.

Inside the Display: Phosphors
The released ultraviolet photons interact with phosphor material coated on the inside wall of the cell. Phosphors are substances that give off light when they are exposed to other light. When an ultraviolet photon hits a phosphor atom in the cell, one of the phosphor's electrons jumps to a higher energy level and the atom heats up. When the electron falls back to its normal level, it releases energy in the form of a visible light photon.

The phosphors in a plasma display give off colored light when they are excited. Every pixel is made up of three separate subpixel cells, each with different colored phosphors. One subpixel has a red light phosphor, one subpixel has a green light phosphor and one subpixel has a blue light phosphor. These colors blend together to create the overall color of the pixel.

By varying the pulses of current flowing through the different cells, the control system can increase or decrease the intensity of each subpixel color to create hundreds of different combinations of red, green and blue. In this way, the control system can produce colors across the entire spectrum.