Flat Panel Display

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What Does Flat Panel Display Mean?

A flat panel display is a television, monitor or other display appliance that uses a thin panel design instead of a traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) design. These screens are much lighter and thinner, and can be much more portable than traditional televisions and monitors. They also have higher resolution than older models.

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Techopedia Explains Flat Panel Display

New flat panel displays utilize a liquid crystal display (LCD) display. This system lights up various pixels on the screen. The simple and small infrastructure of flat panel displays allows for the manufacturing of extremely light and portable screens, which are popular for personal and business use. Some of the newest features of flat panel displays include new organic LED lighting techniques that allow for bendable display screens. Companies are experimenting with panoramic displays that are curved rather than flat.

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.