[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.
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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.