Abstract: A television display system is described in which a full resolution, interlaced scanned display of real-time images is provided on a bistable matrix display panel. The display system has a gray scale with 64 discrete levels of brightness. The brightness levels are achieved with each panel cell turning on for one of 63 different accumulative intervals of time in response to digitized TV signals. From zero to six separate pulses of light are produced from each cell. The durations of these pulses form a geometric progression such that each of the sixty-four possible combinations of pulses has a distinct cumulative time interval. The analog TV signal is converted to a 6-bit digital word for each cell of the display panel. A memory and control system are provided for storage of the words. The least significant bit of the digitized TV signal controls the shortest pulse for the particular cell, and the most significant bit controls the longest pulse.