Comparison of display technology


This is a comparison of various properties of different display technologies.

General characteristics

Major technologies are CRT, LCD and its derivatives, Plasma, and OLED and its derivatives. An emerging technology is Micro LED and cancelled and now obsolete technologies are SED and FED.

Temporal characteristics

Different display technologies have vastly different temporal characteristics, leading to perceptual differences for motion, flicker, etc.
The figure shows a sketch of how different technologies present a single white/grey frame. Time and intensity is not to scale. Notice that some have a fixed intensity, while the illuminated period is variable. This is a kind of pulse-width modulation. Others can vary the actual intensity in response to the input signal.