CRT vs. LCD
By dutta_d1
@dutta_d1 (32)
India
December 12, 2008 1:32am CST
Why is it that CRTs can display resolutions other than its native in excellent sharp quality whereas an LCD blurs horribly out of its native resolution?
It's still a mystery to me. All I found out was that CRTs too have fixed pixels on their screens that are excited by the electron beams. So, the answer can't be that LCDs have fixed pixels and CRTs don't. Does anybody know why exactly does this happen? Does it happen in Plasma displays too?
1 response
@rosdimy (3926)
• Malaysia
12 Dec 08
It has something to do with the way the display is made.
In a CRT monitor the electrons are very small. One electron does not equal to one pixel. A pixel is made by controlling the number of strikes in a particular tiny area in a given time.
The LCDs used to form a screen are fixed in size, definitely larger than an electron. Let's say one tiny LCD equals to one pixel. If we decrease the resolution there is no incremental increase in pixel size compared to the use of electrons.
all the best,
rosdimy
