Giz Explains LCD TV Basics

If you guessed thatGiz Explains Plasma TVwas just the first of several tv set - technology explainers , you were correct . felicitation ! You win … this hebdomad ’s installment : Giz explain LCD television receiver . The little panels are in your telephone set , on your desk and maybeyou’re looking at onefor your home plate theatre too . Here ’s the quick and lousy staple .

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okay , so LCD stands for liquid crystal display . ( Again , we ’re hold this kind of uncomplicated , for simplicity ’s sake . ) fundamentally , the liquid quartz glass part is a gel that sit in front of a backlight or — in the lawsuit of older panels such as those found in Game Boys up till like 2003 — a musing control board . ( think back those stinky light accessories ? ) The gel is divide up into a bunch of freestanding pixels , which can be fire severally . Color LCDs are abit more complicated , made up of red , gloomy and green subpixels which mix to create pel with the full kitchen range of color . To bewilder one more bit of technical school at ya , most liquid crystal display at this pointedness arethin - film transistorLCDs , so that the control layer is embedded within the panel itself instead of off to the side . This provides practiced ikon stableness and other benefits .

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One of the trouble with LCDs , and why plasma has an advantage in show blacks , is that the fluid crystal layer is not opaque , even when all of the pel are closed . On most LCD , the bright backlight is on when the TV is on , so that will always phlebotomise through at least a minute . LED - backlit LCDs can light up just a part of the panel instead of the whole thing , to an extent minimizing the problem .

Besides the “ dynamic ” backlighting described above , LCD engineering is constantly meliorate its dividing line through various crazier schemes involving pixel distortion and other light - blocking techniques .

The other notorious LCD problem is moton blur . If you ’ve been buying LCD Monitor for the past few years , you ’ll notice that advertised response times have dropped precipitously , down to as small as 2ms on some gamer - favorable computer monitors , and 6ms on grown ol’ TVs , so there ’s less true blurring of the exposure . LCD can also reduce motion fuzz further by processing the image : High - end LCD use120Hz technologyto essentially double the framerate of seed video , fob the heart into seeing less blur .

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Some 120Hz LCDs achieve this by sky in a black frame of “ downtime , ” but other setsmorph two frame into a third , middle imagethat sit somewhere between the original chassis and the next . As you might suspect , this can ensue in a uncanny , eldritch super silkiness that some reviewers object to .

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Other reason home plate house buffs pick plasma over LCD inserious showdownsare that LCD naturally produces a less uniform picture and ca n’t be ensure as well ( in color or light or both ) from wide angles . LCDs can producegreat film , and willkeep acquire better(LED backlights FTW ) , but in set 42 inches and above , it justcan’t quite touch plasma , despite the fact that its cheaper pricer spot has given it an consuming marketshare on the HDTV front .

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Sony , which push Bravia LCD and has n’t sold plasma sets in long time , is charge sign that it will soon focus on OLED instead . OLED pretty much makes both LCD and plasmalook sad . They still be a billion dollars and are a few years away , but the Clarence Day of the OLED will come . [ Giz Explains ]

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