Monitors

Monitors

1. CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) - Cathode & Anode within a vacuum tube.

   • Refresh Rate - measures how fast the monitor rewrites the screen. Helps control the flicker seen by the user. higher refresh rate = less flicker
   • 4:3 Ratio
     • Width / Height

2. LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) - Produce images by shinning or reflecting through a layer of liquid crystal and color filters.

   • Response Rate - measure of time it takes for the crystal to go from an off/on state. Slow response state = blurring during the viewing of dynamic/moving images
   • 16:9 Ratio

3. OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode)

4. PIXELS

   • Individual controllable sets of dot triads
     • Grouping of one red, one blue, one green
   • DOT TRIADS
   • MATRIX - Rectangular square table arrangement of numbers that represent pixel intensity on monitor display.