# OFFICIAL: TV Thread.

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-tv-thread/186024>\
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [December 28, 2005, 5:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-tv-thread/186024 "2005-12-28T05:58:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-tv-thread/186024/55 "2006-11-07T08:43:39Z")

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> [@ATTN: rubicant,rx3,sureshot!,originalsin,lxtasy,eviljay, carnut,robhimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attn-rubicant-rx3-sureshot-originalsin-lxtasy-eviljay-carnut-robhimself/25637/8):
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> You should have also put that plasma’s are the one expensive tv with a lifespan…customers don’t like that because you can actually give them a round about number of when it will “burn out”. Plasma’s use ultraviolet light emissions to aggitate gas in the little bulbs to emit an image…so if you put a plasma in a nightclub with UV lights it will die a heck of a lot sooner

ummmmmm… :ugh:

huh???

… i’ve never heard of external UV lights damaging any plasma tv ever… maybe distorting the picture from a perspective, but lessening the life of the tv??? sorry, no.

plasma’s downsides are that you can burn an image in (although you can do this with CRT as well, just to a lesser degree) and that the phosphors cannot be individually changed if gone bad… so you’d be replacing the entire screen which would probably be more than a new TV anyway.

altitude is an issue with plasma, but i’ve never heard of this UV light stuff… please feel free to explain.

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