CRT Monitors VS. LCD Monitors
Though made virtually obsolete by manufacturers, Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) monitors did maintain some advantages over the new Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) monitors. Though these gaps are constantly getting closer if not now non-existent. Cathode Ray Tube screens offered a better screen resolution, text clarity, and better handling of changing resolutions. They also produced colors better than the LCD alternative. LCD’s also have a slower response time, so the screen doesn’t refresh itself as fast as a CRT would, though this problem may no longer exist. Cathode Ray Tube screens use color tubes as televisions used to. The advantage of ray tubes over LCD screen pixels is that pixels can burn out one by one. This will leave white spots on the screen, where the pixel died.
Where Liquid Crystal Display monitors steal the show is on their appearance. They are greatly smaller in width and therefore weigh less and take up less desk space. What once took up a foot and half square portion of desk, now takes up an area of a few inches. The length will be about the same, but the width will be noticeably less. LCD screens are also said to use less power.
The usefulness of this post may have already passed, as CRT monitors have pretty much been outmoded on new computers. If you want to get CRT monitors, you have to go to the second hand market. You can find them for free on message boards like craigslist.
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