ABSTRACT
When plasma TVs debuted in the mid1990s, they represented a new archetype in television design: fl at, sleek and wide. They could be hung on a wall, like a painting. And just as the fi rst massproduced TVs of the late 1940s and ’50s once did before they were banished to dens and bedrooms, they helped to reintroduce the concept of the TV as the focal point of the upscale living room. And like early TVs they are expensive-a real luxury item.
