PC Hardware A Beginner’s Guide

an improvement on the last. You may encounter other video display standards, such as XGA (Extended Graphics Array) or UVGA (Ultr ...

eye sees in the pixel. The blending of these three colors is the basis of what is called RGB (red/green/blue) color, which is th ...

(^382) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide follow a pattern that moves left to right over the top row of pixels and at the end of th ...

Chapter 16: Monitors and Displays^383 Most monitors refresh the display between 60 and 75 times per second. A CRT’s refresh rate ...

(^384) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide wires used to mask the phosphor tend to vibrate, especially in larger monitors, thin wire ...

Chapter 16: Monitors and Displays^385 Figure 16-8. The aperture grill divides the display into vertical stripes Figure 16-9. Dot ...

(^386) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide Aperture grill monitors use stripe pitch instead of dot pitch to indicate the distances b ...

Chapter 16: Monitors and Displays^387 Raster Graphics A raster graphic, which is also known as a bit-mapped graphic, is a two-di ...

The advantage of a raster graphic CRT is that it provides fixed-rate refreshing and does not differentiate one graphic image typ ...

Chapter 16: Monitors and Displays^389 Vector graphic monitors are very expensive and are typically reserved for use on engineeri ...

(^390) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide them perfect for thermometers and mood rings. This is also why notebook computer displays ...

Chapter 16: Monitors and Displays^391  Electrode The common electrode plane for the assembly. The electrodes in an LCD are tran ...

(^392) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide flat-panel monitors, incorporates back lighting elements. Most computer displays are ligh ...

Unfortunately, in spite of its simplicity or because of it, a passive matrix LCD has its disadvantages.Themajordisadvantageisits ...

Color Displays LCDs that display colors have three subpixels at each pixel location that have red, green, and blue filters over ...

Chapter 16: Monitors and Displays^395 This special PC configuration, which is also referred to as Web or Net station, integrates ...

Pen-Based Systems An application of passive matrix LCD technology is the portable pen-based computer, a.k.a. the personal digita ...

or another form of magnet sitting too close to the monitor, bumping the monitor very hard, or sitting on top of the PC’s system ...

Should a monitor, regardless of whether it is a CRT or a flat-panel LCD, need repair, it should be repaired only by the manufact ...

 You should never place heavy items of any type on top of the monitor. This can cause the case to crack or at least flex and pe ...