Editing Liquid-crystal display (section)

===Advantages===
* Very compact, thin and light, especially in comparison with CRT displays.
* Low power consumption. Depending on the set display brightness and content being displayed, the older CCFT backlit models typically use less than half of the power a CRT monitor of the same size viewing area would use, and the modern LED backlit models typically use 10–25% of the power a CRT monitor would use.<ref>Tom's Hardware: Power Consumption Benchmark Results for CRT versus TFT LCD [http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/lcd-backlight-led-cfl,2683-7.html "Benchmark Results: Different Brightness Testing"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606085301/https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/lcd-backlight-led-cfl,2683-7.html |date=June 6, 2020 }}</ref>
* Little heat emitted during operation, due to low power consumption.
* No geometric distortion.
* The possible ability to have little or no flicker depending on backlight technology.
* Usually no refresh-rate flicker, because the LCD pixels hold their state between refreshes (which are usually done at 200&nbsp;Hz or faster, regardless of the input refresh rate).
* Sharp image with no bleeding or smearing when operated at [[native resolution]].
* Emits almost no undesirable [[electromagnetic radiation]] (in the [[extremely low frequency]] range), unlike a CRT monitor.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}<!--Please no personal blogs from the tin-foil hat society this time, please.-->
* Can be made in almost any size or shape.
* No theoretical resolution limit. When multiple LCD panels are used together to create a single canvas, each additional panel increases the total resolution of the display, which is commonly called stacked resolution.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cinemassive.com/pdf/white-paper-a-comparison-of-video-wall-technologies.pdf |title=A Comparison of Video Wall Technologies White Paper |pages=7 |publisher=CineMassive |access-date=May 14, 2015 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308092545/https://www.cinemassive.com/pdf/white-paper-a-comparison-of-video-wall-technologies.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
* Can be made in large sizes of over 80-inch (2&nbsp;m) diagonal.
* LCDs can be made [[See-through display|transparent and flexible]], but they cannot emit light without a backlight like OLED and microLED, which are other technologies that can also be made flexible and transparent.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flexenable.com/technology/flexible-olcd/|title=Flexible OLCD &#124; Technology &#124; Flexible Electronics &#124; FlexEnable - FlexEnable|website=www.flexenable.com|access-date=January 12, 2020|archive-date=March 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307212631/https://www.flexenable.com/technology/flexible-olcd/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://monitorszone.com/4k-curved-gaming-monitors-2020/|title=Transparent LCD Screen &#124; Curved 4k monitors Display Panel|website=Pro Display|access-date=March 18, 2020|archive-date=March 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319225809/https://monitorszone.com/4k-curved-gaming-monitors-2020/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://monitorszone.com/4k-curved-gaming-monitors-2020/|title=UCIC Curved 4k monitors LCD Displays|website=monitorzone|access-date=January 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200319225809/https://monitorszone.com/4k-curved-gaming-monitors-2020/|archive-date=March 19, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.edn.com/implementing-flexible-oled-and-olcd-display-technologies-in-consumer-electronics/|title=EDN - Implementing flexible OLED and OLCD display technologies in consumer electronics -|date=August 19, 2019|access-date=January 12, 2020|archive-date=November 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110035238/https://www.edn.com/implementing-flexible-oled-and-olcd-display-technologies-in-consumer-electronics/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Masking effect: the LCD grid can mask the effects of spatial and grayscale quantization, creating the illusion of higher image quality.<ref>M. d'Zmura, T. P. Janice Shen, Wei Wu, Homer Chen, and Marius Vassiliou (1998), "Contrast Gain Control for Color Image Quality," IS&T/SPIE Conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging III, San Jose, California, January 1998, SPIE Vol. 3299, 194-201.</ref>
* Unaffected by magnetic fields, including the Earth's, unlike most color CRTs. 
* As an inherently digital device, the LCD can natively display digital data from a [[digital visual interface|DVI]] or [[HDMI]] connection without requiring conversion to analog. Some LCD panels have native [[fiber-optic cable|fiber-optic]] inputs in addition to DVI and HDMI.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cinemassive.com/products/video-wall/lcd-video-wall/ | title=CineMassive CineView II LCD panel | access-date=May 14, 2015 | archive-date=September 14, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914164107/https://www.cinemassive.com/products/video-wall/lcd-video-wall/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
* Many LCD monitors are powered by a 12&nbsp;V power supply, and if built into a computer can be powered by its 12&nbsp;V power supply.
* Can be made with very narrow frame borders, allowing multiple LCD screens to be arrayed side by side to make up what looks like one big screen.