Summary

LCD monitors started outselling CRT monitors starting in 2005. Their many advantages over the conventional CRT’s include smaller size, lower weight, reduced power consumption, lower heat and radiation emission. Due to ease of fabrication, manufacturers are able to build them in an increasingly large number of sizes and form factors. Moreover, favorable economies of scale are driving there costs lower and lower with every passing month.

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LCD monitors have become more popular as compared with CRT monitors not only due to their space-saving advantage, but also because they typically consume 65% less power and emit little of it as heat or radiation. Their prices have been spiraling downwards for a while now, making even the 19" models quite affordable. All these factors have made CRT’s extinct in all but the most high-end of the high-end environments where precise reproduction of colors is essential