Plasmas Gives Off Micro-Waves?  

It's one of the reasons I really like my 2009 Panasonic 54G10. While I'm analyzing the blackness of the letterboxes on my favorite blu-rays, I can place a bag of microwave popcorn on the set and within minutes enjoy a snack without missing a single voltage fluctuation.

lol

Ya, uh, it's all true.

And the microwaves are well-known to cause impotence and baldness.

But who needs hair or sex if you can have a nice plasma?

I find mine is great for tanning especially when watching CSI Miami

I don't see why people keep drooling over this new feature in plasmas........my pasta sauce still gets messy and explodes everywhere

I heard it was only a small problem before I bought it.





























I'm gonna sue.

Also, after 1000 hrs, the algorithm changes the wave length and they get less noticealbe.

any member that can give a cogent answer?

Ahhhh, ya beat me to it. I read the title thread and a popcorn joke popped into my head. lol

I know that using a cell phone held up to the ear exposes the brain to microwave radiation. There is some debate about exposure to these microwaves with people who spend hours every day with the phone to their ear. There are a few studies, and I think they are contradictory. So far, no data strong enough to require any kind of warning, but some people prefer not to have the phone against their head because of this very reason.

I had not heard of microwaves and plasma TVs till I just searched and found the link below. I believe that microwave radiation decreases exponentially as distance from the source increases.

So, I would avoid watching from 2 feet. At even relatively close viewing distance, my guess is that there would be no danger at 5 feet or more, but again, I had never heard that plasma TVs emit microwaves until I did this search and found this:

http://www.emfoff.com/category/devic...-emf-radiation

Scroll down to number 06. It says sit at least 6 feet away from a plasma TV. Who knows the strength. Notice that the number one source of EMF is the cell phone on this site so maybe there is something to the plasma TV. Anyone who is concerned should sit 6 feet away. That should not be a hardship to too many, I guess.

As CRT computer monitors became more mature products they advertised low EMF.

Then there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who live under or close to giant electric power lines and towers. Nothing definitive out there but some people won't buy a house that close to huge towers and high voltage power lines.

Yeah, that blog seems like one of those "bad radiation is everywhere!" scare sites. Not exactly Popular Science. I wouldn't worry about it.

In the last study I read it does give off microwaves and there appears to be cancer clusters among people with plasmas but I got a plasma because of little deeper black level. I can always do chemo.

this is a common misconception

plasma TV's do give off emissions in certain frequency ranges, but far less than CRT displays and, at a reasonable viewing distance, are not harmful