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The excitement of this year's Spring Festival film has not gone away, and the TV series "Storm" here has become a dark horse, which has become the focus of discussion on various social platforms for a time.

(photo Source: Weibo hot search) the plot is as interlinked as all the hot shows, with famous actors working hard to make their characters real and vivid. The combination of Fu Hua Tao has given more credibility to the development of the story that spans 20 years, and viewers can immerse themselves in the anti-triad tension around the protagonist. When it comes to the sets, makeup and props in the play, audiences often praise them with a "sense of age".

I believe that many viewers will find memories of the past in all kinds of props, large and small. These objects may be very popular for a while, may still be influential today, or may have quietly retired from the stage of history. Among the many clues laid in the first episode, there is a plasma TV, a term that many young people have an impression but do not see in their lives, which leads to the changes that have taken place in China's television industry.

Plasma TV was once very noble in the play, and Gao Qiqiang, played by Zhang Songwen, chose to accept the hidden rules of being asked for bribes by the underworld administrator in order to keep the booth. However, the price of the plasma TV in the play was as high as more than 20,000 yuan. when he lost his parents and grew up with his brother and sister-in-law, he only had more than 10,000 savings. He finally gritted his teeth and bought a few thousand yuan of "ordinary TV," but he was beaten and falsified by the other side, indirectly contributing to the character's move towards the abyss of crime.

How expensive was the plasma TV, which is hard to find today, 20 years ago? At that time, plasma TV was absolutely new. It was only at the end of 1997 that Vanguard launched the world's first home plasma TV in Japan, while when it entered the Chinese market on a large scale in 2002, it was as high as 60,000 yuan. A year later, domestic brands also need nearly 30,000 yuan after participating in the competition, and small flaws do not affect the highlights of the show.

(photo Source: Sina) Plasma TVs, which once occupied the high-end market, are not simple in technology. In fact, they rely on the gas and phosphors charged between the two glass panels of the screen to be excited by current for luminescence imaging. Because each pixel is an independent luminous control effect, it has a high advantage in contrast and color saturation. In terms of technical route, plasma TV is the predecessor of today's high-end OLED TV.

The technical principle makes the plasma TV screen always have a high production cost, coupled with the same advantages in the display effect, which is the first choice for manufacturers to build medium-and high-end products for quite a long time. Even if TV manufacturers invest heavily in upstream research and development, plasma-related production is becoming more and more mature before 2010, the price of entry-level plasma TVs is about 4000 yuan to 5000 yuan.

Plasma TVs were once cheaper, but as we see today, they are in decline. The effect of the picture is amazing, but the disadvantages along with the advantages make it continue to be pulled apart, not to mention the relatively larger size and power consumption, just the "burning screen" caused by the aging of the panel after long-term use. it's enough to dissuade ordinary consumers who want to use a TV for several years.

(photo Source: Panasonic) since then, the high-end market position of plasma TVs has been replaced by OLED TVs, just as the latter has done on its technical route. The pursuit of better picture performance in the market has always enabled this kind of products to stand in a higher position, but the LCD TV, which has not appeared in the play, has spread its branches in more than a decade and become the mainstream ranging from 100 yuan to tens of thousands of yuan.

Why did the "ordinary" LCD TV laugh until 2023? The first episode of the TV series "Storm" was set in 2000. Plasma TV is absolutely high-end in terms of price and effect, and LCD TV, which is also new, is actually no less than LCD TV-- nowadays, it does not seem to be larger than a computer monitor, but it also has a price of tens of thousands of yuan, so there was a dispute between plasma and LCD at that time, and who is the really high-end route?

Liquid crystal panel (LCD) has experienced the coverage of large and small devices from televisions to mobile phones, computers, cars and other devices in recent years, and then OLED has taken away a considerable amount of market space and returned to the battlefield dominated by large-screen televisions. At that time, the changes sought by LCD were very similar to those of OLED, capturing the market by iterating faster than competitors in terms of cost and shape.

(photo Source: Sony) when we mention LCD TVs in 2023, the first concept that pops up is often the "mass line, cheap bowl" and so on. You only need to buy a fraction of the high-end TV more than a decade ago. You can get a new TV with a decent display effect and a much larger size. After the upstream panel cost dropped sharply, the actual price of a 55-inch LCD TV has reached about 1000 yuan, while the 86-inch "giant screen TV" is only less than 5,000 yuan.

Even if the program content provided by the online video platform is not advanced in terms of code rate and other technical indicators, users face a complex and inexpensive billing mode when watching content, and TV stations have not made great strides forward in the transformation of high definition and digitalization. However, as far as the current TV viewing experience is concerned, the large-screen viewing experience that can easily be owned by ordinary families has already subverted everyone's viewing experience.

The development and use of TV content needs the support of a large audience. As the terminal of mass consumer film and television programs, TV sets will naturally tilt to the technology that is more in line with the mainstream needs because of the market choice. In addition to the declining price, the advantages of LCD panels in size and maintenance have become a booster, manufacturers are willing to build such products, while consumers can also accept the cost of space.

(photo Source: Huawei) the rapid development of LCD has also made it quite passive in the past. Domestic TV manufacturers who need to keep up with the foreign industrial chain to gain living space have seized the opportunity and gradually completed the localization process of LCD production, R & D and iteration. Some people have criticized it as "dealing with backward production capacity for foreign enterprises", but it has become a key step in the development of domestic technology, and even planted the seeds for today's domestic development.

The picture carried by television, the history of the development of human science and technology, human history is also the history of the development of science and technology, from learning to use fire to control electro-optic fuel and then to the tide of information, behind the social changes, we can always see the key role of science and technology. Just like the rise and fall of plasma display and the lively development of LCD and OLED, TV, as a key carrier of information dissemination and entertainment, has left an unforgettable color in history.

The film and TV drama with well-made textual research is always gratifying, the character motivation and plot development can be traced back to the source, their time and environment set off the authenticity of the story, and finally constitute the excellent play of each link like a bucket. A serious attitude towards these details is a microcosm of the film and television industry moving forward, and it is also becoming a key for us to review history and all the past.

(photo Source: Xiaomi) through the TV screen, viewers can get a glimpse of the progress of film and television production technology. Film camera to digital recording, the change is not only the presentation of roles and scenes of the picture, but also the way of recording and dissemination of images, and ultimately improve the overall production efficiency of the scale of the program ushered in the outbreak. More picture details can also go from setting the scene to the eyes of the audience, and there are multiple ways to express the connotation in addition to the actors' performance.

TV this end is the progress of broadcast technology, large screen, super-large screen, giant screen. What restricts people to watch film and television programs is no longer the budget, but the size that the family wall can carry, and the greatly enhanced pictures such as fineness, color and detail make this form of entertainment have more theories. It is said that after the large-scale popularity of color TV, people will not remember the colors of their dreams until they retell them.

There are more and more excellent TV R & D technology and products, and well-known films and TV dramas are springing up after a spring rain, and the dormant film and television production and broadcasting ushered in a rare "two-way trip". Let's hope that "Storm" is just the beginning, not the best part that will be remembered for a long time.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: ID:leitech, author: AIoT Group of Lei Tech Home Appliances

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