Ric Manning does a side-by-side comparison of Gateway’s new 42″ plasma television and a new 34″ flat screen television from Philips that features something called “Pixel Plus”, which is supposed to increase image resolution. Both cost about the same amount of money ($3000), and while the Gateway’s bigger and thinner, the Philips can display high-definition signals, and courtesy of Pixel Plus, has better overall picture quality:
Pixel Plus creates a high-def picture by adding more lines to the screen and using computer wizardry to fill them. The result is a crisp, flicker-free picture that has more depth and definition than any ordinary TV image.The trick works with DVDs, with compressed video delivered by cable or satellite and with standard broadcast signals. In some movies, the characters and buildings almost pop out of the screen, as if you were watching one of those old 3-D films.
