[quote name=\'WhewsYourDaddy\' date=\'Nov 9 2004, 10:51 AM\']Does anybody know why Jeopardy uses flat panel monitors (I believe they're rear projection) for their road games but old tech crt's at home? After several set re-designs I've been expecting a technology upgrade but it hasn't happened.
BTW, I tried a search and couldn't find anything.
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This is just a guess, BUT: If those are plasma monitors on the road, you wouldn't have the problems with sync that you do with a CRT. This would greatly simplify setting up and striking the set, as you wouldn't have to run every one of a great deal of monitors to a sync generator. You'd still NEED a sync generator, but not as big a one, I wouldn't think.
(Plasma monitors would also be significantly lighter and easier to transport than tubes would. I speak from experience, having replaced a 19" computer monitor with a 19" flatscreen about a month ago, and the tube monitor is still sitting on my easy chair because I haven't wanted to haul the behemoth down to the dumpster yet.
In the studio environment, the sync generator is already there, and I'm sure it's all easy to hook up (the board I'm sure is all daily chained so it's just a few cables to run everything into the sync system), so there's no reason to go to the expense quite yet.