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QLED, or quantum dot light-emitting diode (LED), is a display panel used in high-definition TVs (HDTV). The quantum dots or...
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DisplayPort (DP) is an audio/video (A/V) display interface used to connect a video source to a display device. For example,...
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4K resolution, also called 4K high-definition (or UHD for Ultra-High Definition) is a digital TV phrase used to describe a...
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Gaming monitor is the phrase used to describe a computer monitor designed for use in a computer gaming system (“gaming...
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Also called a roll-up display, a roll-up flexible screen is one that can be bent, rolled-up, scrunched and generally manipulated...
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Short for Wireless Display, WiDi is a technology developed by Intel to enable computers and laptops to seamlessly work with...
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One of the two primary types of touchscreen displays (along with resistive) employed on smartphones, tablets, laptops and similar electronic...
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Retina display is a marketing term developed by Apple to refer to devices and monitors that have a resolution and...
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Monitors with cathode ray tubes, found in older desktop monitors, are manufactured specifically for which hemisphere they are going to...
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In this article we will provide a comparison of CRT and LCD monitors, along with defining some of the many...
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The outside frame around a computer tower or monitor. On a computer case the bezel is the front area of...
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A slang term used to reference how much space a monitor takes up on your desk.
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In computer monitor terminology, the viewable area is the diagonal measurement of a CRT screen, starting from where the glass...
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A phrase that is becoming more commonly used to describe a new generation of LCD monitors that have a built-in...
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A monitor that does not require a wired connection to the computer system. The first wireless monitors are expected to...
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If you’re looking a flat-screen TV, the one question, other than price, that plagues most people is which is better,...
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Your computer monitor can display many more colors than can NTSC video. Broadcast colors are those colors that are safe...
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(1) The frequency that video frames are displayed on a monitor. See refresh. (2) In video and recording, frame rate...
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A type of dual monitor system in which a single video card uses a single chipset to drive two display...
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A computer system with more than one display connected. Dual monitor systems consist of adding additional video adapters (also called...
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A patented display technology for use for handhelds and mobile devices.
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Short for Direct Drive Image Light Amplifier, D-ILA is a high performance liquid crystal display device developed by JVC to...
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Short for Silicon Xtal Reflective Display, a liquid crystal display device developed by Sony Corp. for use in projectors. SXRD...
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In the world of television entertainment, everyone’s talking HDTV (high-definition television). HDTV offers consumers much higher resolution and better picture...
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Short for Liquid Crystal on Silicon, it is micro-display technology related to LCD, where liquid crystal material has a twisted-nematic structure but is sealed directly to the surface crystals' alignment are etched into the silicon.
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Carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, are tubes of carbon atoms less than a nanometer (one billionth of a meter) in diameter....
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Short for Field Emission Display, it is a flat-panel display where a grid of electron emitters are controlled by cold...
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Short for Light Emitting Polymer, it is an emissive technology that emits light as a function of its electrical operation....
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Short for Nano Emissive Display, NED is the technology that enables manufacturers to design large flat panel displays that exceed...
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(adj.) A type of LCD screen in which the pixels are illuminated from in front of the monitor s screen...
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(adj.) A type of LCD screen in which the pixels are illuminated from both the front of the monitor s...
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(adj.) A type of LCD screen in which the pixels are illuminated from behind the monitor s screen (opposite of...
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A pixel on an LCD monitor that remains unlit, or black, when it should be activated and displaying a color....
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Short for Display Power Management Signaling, a VESA interface standard that defines four power management modes for monitors in idle...
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What Does Pixelated Mean? The term pixelated is used to describe an image in which the individual pixels are visible...
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Short for Quantum Extended Graphics Array, a display specification that is capable of supporting 2048 x 1536 resolution, or approximately...
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In reference to computer monitors, the measurement of the difference in light intensity between the brightest white and the darkest...
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On computers that use a desktop GUI, wallpaper is the monitor pattern or picture or other graphic representation that forms...
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Short for pixels per inch, a measurement of how a monitor displays an image. The resolution of an image displayed...
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A unit of measurement of luminance, or the intensity of visible light, where one nit is equal to one candela...
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Abbreviated cd, the International System of Units standard unit of measurement of luminous intensity. The candela is equal to the...
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Short for polymer, or polymeric, light-emitting diode, a backlighting, illumination and display technology. Polymers are substances formed by a chemical...
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Short for organic light-emitting diode, a display device that sandwiches carbon-based films between two charged electrodes, one a metallic cathode...
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A perforated metal sheet inside a color monitor. Most color monitor screens use cathode-ray tube (CRT) technology in which electrons...
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Introduced by DEC in August 1978, Video Terminal 100 was the first terminal to use a general-purpose processor for interpreting...
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Invented by Xerox at Xerox PARC, electronic paper (also known as epaper) is made from a displaytechnology called gyricon. A...
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Extended Display Identification Data is a VESA standard data format that contains basic information about a monitorand its capabilities, including...
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(1) Flickering on a display screen. Jittering can be caused by the following: (a) a number of hardware problems, such...
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Short for High-Performance Addressing, an passive-matrix display technology the provides better response rates and contrast than conventional LCD displays. Although...
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Short for Inter-IC, a type of bus designed by Philips Semiconductors in the early 1980s, which is used to connect...
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A common type of distortion in CRT monitors in which horizontal and vertical lines bend inwards toward the center of...
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Degauss means to remove magnetism from a device. The term is usually used in reference to color monitors and other...
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The field of computer graphics concerned with generating and displaying three-dimensional objects in a two-dimensional space (e.g., the display screen)....
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The rectangular area of a display screen actually being used to display images. The raster is slightly smaller than the...
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A dumb terminal especially designed to run Windows applications. Windows terminals are connected to a Windows NT server through a...
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In graphics, a portion of each pixel’s data that is reserved for transparency information. 32-bit graphics systems contain four channels...
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A monitor that uses LCD technologies rather than the conventional CRT technologies used by most desktop monitors. Until recently, LCD...
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(1) Short for Phase Alternating Line, the dominant television standard in Europe. The United States uses a different standard, NTSC....
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(1) Short for transistor-transistor logic, a common type of digital circuit in which the output is derived from two transistors....
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Short for visual display unit, the old term for display monitors. The older VDUs included a CRT, a serial port...
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In color monitors, the distance between holes in the shadow mask. The mask pitch is essentially the same as the...
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Short for Display Data Channel, a VESA standard for communication between a monitor and a video adapter. Using DDC, a...
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Short for color super-twist nematic, an LCD technology developed by Sharp Electronics Corporation. Unlike TFT, CSTN is based on a...
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Short for double-layer supertwist nematic, a passive-matrix LCD technology that uses two display layers to counteract the color shifting that...
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A feature supported by some notebook computers that enables them to display images on an external monitor at a higher resolution than is supported by the built-in flat-panel display.
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Short for Digital Light Processing, DLP is a technology developed by Texas Instruments used for projecting images from a monitor...
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A type of flat-panel display in which the screen is refreshed more frequently than in conventional passive-matrix displays. The most...
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The traditional type of color display screen that has been used for years in televisions. In reality, all monitors based...
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In computer graphics, antialiasing is a software technique for diminishing jaggies – stairstep-like lines that should be smooth. Jaggies occur...
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In computer graphics, the relative horizontal and vertical sizes. For example, if a graphic has an aspect ratio of 2:1,...
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Refers to a monitor’s ability to automatically adjust the raster (the rectangular area being displayed) depending on the resolution of...
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A technique used to make flat-panel displays easier to read. A backlit display is illuminated so that the foreground appears...
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(n.) A display monitor capable of displaying many colors. In contrast, a monochrome monitor can display only two colors —...
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(n.) A type of video signal in which all information-the red, blue, and green signals (and sometimes audio signals as...
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Refers to images that have a virtually unlimited range of color or shades of grays. Photographs and television images, for...
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CRT is the abbreviation of cathode-ray tube, the technology used in most older televisions and computer display screens. A CRT...
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A monitor that accepts digital rather than analog signals. All monitors (except flat-panel displays) use CRT technology, which is essentially...
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A display screen is a visual output device that presents information in a visible form. It can be an image,...
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(v) To make data or images appear on a monitor. (n) Short for display screen or monitor.
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)Creating the illusion of new colors and shades by varying the pattern of dots. Newspaper photographs, for example, are dithered....
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Also called phosphor pitch, a measurement that indicates the diagonal distance between like-colored phosphor dots on a display screen. Measured...
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A type of passive-matrix LCD display that provides faster refresh rates that conventional passive-matrix displays by dividing the screen into...
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A display monitor that has no processing capabilities. A dumb terminal is simply an output device that accepts data from...
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A technology used to produce a very thin display screen, called a flat-panel display, used in some portable computers. An...
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ELF stands for extremely low frequency, and ELF emissions are magnetic fields generated by common electrical appliances. There is considerable...
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A monitor that can only accept signals in one frequency range. In contrast, multiscanning monitors automatically adjust themselves to the...
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A very thin display screen used in portable computers. Nearly all modern flat-panel displays use LCD technologies. Most LCD screens...
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Often abbreviated as FTM, flat technology monitors are monitors that have a flat display screen to reduce glare. Conventional display...
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A type of thin display screen, called a flat-panel display, used in some older portable computers. A gas-plasma display works...
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The combination of monitor and video adapter that makes a computer capable of displaying graphics.
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A monitor capable of displaying graphics. That is, any monitor that supports a graphics mode in addition to text modes....
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)The use of many shades of gray to represent an image. Continuous-tone images, such as black-and-white photographs, use an almost...
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In printing, a continuous tone image, such as a photograph, that has been converted into a black-and-white image. Halftones are...
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Short for liquid crystal display, a type of display used in digital watches and many portable computers. LCD displays utilize...
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Often abbreviated LF, a line feed is a code that moves the cursor on a display screen down one line....
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An undesirable pattern that appears when a graphic image is displayed or printed with an inappropriate resolution. Moir patterns are...
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Monochrome is a visual art characteristic in which an image is composed of varying shades of the same color. A...
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A type of video monitor capable of accepting signals at more than one frequency range. This enables the monitor to...
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A package of hardware and software that adds multimedia capabilities to a computer. Typically a multimedia kit includes a CD-ROM...
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A type of monitor that automatically adjusts to the signal frequency of the video display board to which it is...
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The representation of graphical objects, such as lines, arcs, circles, and rectangles, with mathematical formulas. This method of describing objects...
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A special type of LCD display screen that uses supertwist technology to produce a high contrast between the foreground and...
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A high-quality monochrome monitor that displays characters in black against a white background. Such monitors are popular for desktop publishing...
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A common type of flat-panel display consisting of a grid of horizontal and vertical wires. At the intersection of each...
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Pixel, short for picture element, is the smallest unit in a graphic display or digital image. Computer displays are made...
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A type of flat-panel display that works by sandwiching a neon/xenon gas mixture between two sealed glass plates with parallel...
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In computing plot means to produce an image by drawing lines. You can program a computer to plot images on...
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(1) Generally, to update something with new data. For example, some Web browsers include a refresh button that updates the...
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Refers to the sharpness and clarity of an image. The term is most often used to describe monitors, printers, and...
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The phenomenon whereby a display screen appears to flicker. Screen flicker results from a variety of factors, the most important...
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A terminal that has some processing capabilities, but not as many as an intelligent terminal. Smart terminals have built-in logic...
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A technique for improving LCD display screens by twisting light rays. In addition to normal supertwist displays, there also exist...
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(1) A device that enables you to communicate with a computer. Generally, a terminal is a combination of keyboard and...
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Text mode is a video mode in which a display screen is divided into rows and columns of boxes. Each...
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Short for thin film transistor, a type of LCD flat-panel display screen, in which each pixel is controlled by from...
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A type of display screen that has a touch-sensitive transparent panel covering the screen. Instead of using a pointing device...
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TTL stands for transistor-transistor logic and refers to a special type of digital circuit. More commonly, however, TTL is used...
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VDT radiation is described as the radiation emitted by video display terminals. Like televisions, computer monitors emit various types of...
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A video adapter is a board that plugs into a personal computer to give it display capabilities. The display capabilities...
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Video mode is the setting of a video adapter. Most video adapters can run in either text mode or graphics...
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Short for extended graphics array, a high-resolution graphics standard introduced by IBM in 1990. XGA was designed to replace the...