- Visual Display unit (projectors)
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Very big category
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Monitors
- CRT (gone since long)
- Very durable but is extremely large
- Plasma (gone since long)
- very expensive
- LCD
- Liquid Crystal Display
- Newer technology
- How does it work?
- A light behind the screen give light
- The Liquid Crystal change reflection rate when current pass through
- Different color will then be shown on the screen
- LED
- Newer technology
- Similar to LCD
- Basically same with LCD except the points on screen can glow without a light in back
- LCD vs LED
- Full black: LCD will not be full black (still have a bit light); LED will actually be full black (that's how AMOLED black works)
- CRT (gone since long)
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TVs
- Similar with a monitor (but is NOT a monitor)
- Can do more stuff (e.g. receive TV signals)
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TV wall
- Multiple TV combine to show 1 thing
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LED Walls
- Basically big LED display
- If you walk closely you can see a lot of led light bulb
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Touchscreens
- Invented in Hong Kong (TM)
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New stuff: Contrast Ratio & Refresh Rate
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- 60Hz / 120Hz / 144Hz / 160Hz
- The higher the refresh rate, the more images in a second
- The more images in a second, the more times the screen reloads the image
- If camera refresh rate > screen refresh rate, you may be able to see flicker in image.