Output devices

Output devices

1. Display devices

   • visually conveys text, graphics, and video information.
   • Information shown on a display device is called soft copy because the information exists electronically
   • Examples, CRT monitors, LCD monitors and televisors

2. Types of outputs

   • text, graphics, tactile, audio, and video.
   • Texts: are used to create words, sentences, and paragraphs.
   • Graphics are digital representations of nontext information such as drawings, charts, photographs, and animation
   • the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, or motions to the user
   • Audio and is music, speech, or any other sound.
   • Video images played back at speeds to provide the appearance of full motion