Display Format Technologies Comparison

An anonymous reader writes "The differences between LCD, Plasma, DLP, LCOS, D-ILA, and CRT are revealed, as well as their associated advantages and disadvantages, as Audioholics post a new version of their Display Technologies Guide With advances companies like Intel (LCOS) and Texas Instruments (HD2+) are making in chip technologies and cost reductions, one wonders just how soon CRT based TVs will become an antiquity we discuss with our grandchildren as they install their new high resolution, lightweight, affordable displays on their walls."

Comments

The difference

[TurnerK12]

CRT's are a thing of the past now. Flat screens, and LCD's are the things of the present. I've got a flat screen monitor, and it's a lot clearer than any CRT I owned in the past.
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Re:Game playing

[Dark Lord Seth]

While an LCD monitor has much to recommend it on the grounds of space saving and visual clarity, I find one arena where it is left in the dust by a CRT: game playing. When rushing around in a FPS, the picture on an LCD monitor turns into a blurry, muddy mess; on a CRT, by contrast, it remains crisp.

In an unrelated but related point (think "tea and no tea"), I find that optical mice are great for day-to-day work, but fall down during FPS play: when you figure that someone is filling your back with lead, and you need to do an instant 180 degree turn, an optical mouse simply can't handle the rate of movement. A traditional ball mouse is the only choice; however, you have to make sure its clean so that the ball doesn't jam when being rolled at high speed. A good tip to keeping your balls clean is to rest your beer on a different table to your

I call you a troll. Anyways, I hope you always end up on the opposing team when I play $my_fave_FPS because I'm sure that YOUR mechanical mouse will be a huge advantage... for MY team, hehe.. :P

Credibility Lacking

[FredFnord]

I found it hard to put too much faith in these guys after I read this bit:

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What are phosphors? Phosphors are chemical compounds on back glass that emit the visible light that makes up the picture we see. Hit them with light and they react by producing an amount of red, green or blue. On a direct-view television (CRT, or cathode ray tube) the phosphors are on the front glass and are excited by a beam of light from the cathode-ray. On plasma monitors the phosphors are excited by UV light produced by electromagnetically charged plasma.
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Oh, yes. Phosphors are excited by a beam of light from the cathode ray. Because, after all, we wouldn't want to use a beam of electrons, because then we'd have to use electromagnets to aim it, instead of using... uh... gravity! Yes, there are microscopic black holes in your TV, moving around to steer this beam of light.

And they call it an electron gun because... uh, because...

Oh, hell with it. Anyway, kudoes not only to the author for being clueless, but for the editor for being either clueless or supremely oblivious.

-fred