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Plasma Display: Plasma Display Panels
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How hard would it be to replace the menus at a fast food restaurant with plasma displays? Not at all, and those same panels could be used to show a mouth-watering lunch to patrons standing in line. They could promote contests. Quick-mart stores could ... install plasma screens to showcase different products at different times of day - hot coffee and pastries in the morning, sandwiches and hot dogs at lunch and snack foods the rest of the day.
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The PFM-42V1 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 digital signage at retail stores, shopping malls, airports, train stations, entertainment venues, hospitality rooms - and anywhere you need to grasp the attention of visitors.
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Bitzer noted that the Japanese ... saw plasma as an answer to the problem of displaying their Kanji script, something the Western alphanumeric computer displays of the early 1960s could not do. So plasma panels became widely used in Japan for cash registers, meters, and public signs.
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