Exam 19: Display Technologies

Average LCD panels are around _______________, which most monitor authorities consider excellent brightness.

What fast expansion card standard has replaced PCI and AGP?

One nit is equivalent to _______________.

For standardization, the _______________ defines a certain number of resolutions, all derived from the granddaddy of video modes: VGA.

Explain the differences between single-link and dual-link DVI-D and DVI-I connectors in terms of bandwidth, resolution, and throughput.

What are some negative effects of excessive heat inside a case?

A(n) _______________ connector provides a video signal through a single cable that plugs into a standard RCA jack.

LCD monitor brightness is measured in _______________.

The LCD has to use an edge-blurring technique called _______________ to soften the jagged corners of the pixels when running at lower than native resolution, which simply does not look as good.

In an older CRT monitor, how did persistence affect picture quality?

What are the advantages of TFT over passive displays?

Which video RAM technology is used on budget graphics cards and is also very common on laptop video cards?

With the introduction of the IBM Personal System/2 (PS/2), IBM introduced the _______________ standard.

What CRT component controls the point of impact for an electron beam?

Explain how LCD pixels are very different from the pixels in a CRT.

Describe several advantages of using LEDs for backlighting.

Describe two advantages of curved panels.

What two video card components can go bad and what error is displayed in each case?

Random access memory digital-to-analog converter (RAMDAC) takes the _______________ signal from the video card and turns it into an analog signal for the analog CRT.

Any single combination of resolution and color depth you set for your system is called a(n) _______________.