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Introduction

The display device market has been a quiet place for innovation and change compared to other components of a computer. CRT monitors, based on the technology for household televisions, was the first to the market, and has been the predominate display technology used for personal computers.

However, in recent years, the use of Liquid Crystal Displays on portable computers has made this LCD technology a strong competitor for a slice of market share in the computer display market.

Here, let find out what's behind these two most prevailent kind of displays. How do they work? What's good and bad about them? And how do they compare to each other?


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