Monitor and Television Types and Information

These monitors are commonly known as boxes. These are very old monitors, circa 1960’s and earlier. These work in conjunction with the basic projection system, and thus take up a relatively large amount of space. These are the only type of monitor that is not flat screen. CRT monitors they will burn out and become useless for your purpose much faster than LCD, Plasma, or LED monitors. The warning signs of a CRT monitor failing to the point of inoperability are as follows: First, the monitor will flicker on and off at random intervals at random points during operation. Monitor turned off for a long period of time and then turned on again, intermittently. The monitor image can be moved to a different location than you initially set. Second, the color can be made inside the monitor, the image on your screen in black and white, the gray image. Finally, the monitor will turn off permanently, and you will not be able to control it. You should buy a new monitor, preferably a newer type. Computers purchased today from the company will generally not offer the option of a CRT monitor.

Liquid Crystal Display (LCD

These monitors are displayed as flat panels flat. This works by exciting the tiny crystals that create the pixel-image on the screen. LCDs and all other flat panel displays are very nice because the image cannot change around the screen, as it does on CRT displays, and the image is always perfectly clear. The bulb is not meant to burn, although the elements may “die” or stick to a certain color. There are ways for the common user to fix this, as I will define in a later article. This is the type that companies usually bundle with computers, although you can purchase a plasma TV and use it as a computer monitor.

This type of television is usually exclusive, which is quite expensive. The plasma is excited similarly to the crystals in the LCD monitor which projects your image on the screen. Like LCD monitors, plasma screens can’t distort images within the screen unless the user wants it to. Plasma TVs typically produce better quality for the user and are also more expensive.

Light emitting diode ( )

These are most recently produced by companies such as LG. This works through tiny LEDs, or Light Emitting Diodes that create a deeper image. These TVs are quite expensive, but they eliminate glare and are almost always high definition at 1080p resolution, the highest that HD can go now.