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LCD Vs. LED Displays

A decade back panel computer monitors were an oddity, and also the models went for more than the purchase price of PC, but the flat panel monitor is. Prices have come down in the past ten decades as well, and new technologies are coming to the market. The most recent are the LED monitor. Like any new technology, it can be confusing at first. Like two identical cars with unique engines taking, a look at the two side by side does not immediately tell us a whole lot of information. A flat panel resembles a panel. The difference is under the hood. let’s check the difference for  lcd vs led .

LCD screens work by having a fluorescent tube light bulb behind a liquid crystal screen at the top although sometimes at both or the bottom. Colour cans change but don’t give off any light. Comes with the bulbs shining through the LCD itself as the matrix changes color. This works well but has a few drawbacks; the most immediately obvious is that it’s complicated to display black. Because two or only one bulbs are lighting the entire screen the only way an LCD can display black is to change the pixels to opaque blocking the light. Some LCDs are more successful at this than others when the screen is on, but all except the newest displays will look dark gray or charcoal, but displaying black. That is all right for many uses, but the levels that are imperfect can be bothersome for watching movies or video gaming.

LED displays to work to LCDs, except instead of having bulbs there are Light Emitting Diodes on the other side of the screen. These LEDs require very little electricity, and ones that aren’t needed (if a part of the screen is showing black) can be turned off. The LEDs also take up less space than the fluorescent bulbs, so the displays are thinner and lighter. Finally, many people have noticed that small amounts of mercury are used in the production of traditional LCDs (for the fluorescent bulbs), and this isn’t the case with LED screens.

Currently LED displays to cost about 50% more than an LCD screen of the same size, but there are definite advantages and no drawbacks to the new technology besides the increased price tag.

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