Output device

An output device is any piece of computer

hardware equipment which converts
information into human-readable form. It
can be text, graphics, tactile, audio, and
video.

Some of the output devices are Visual

Display Units (VDU) i.e. a Monitor, Printer,
Graphic Output devices[1], Plotters,
Speakers etc. A new type of Output device
is been developed these days, known as
Speech synthesizer,[2] a mechanism
attached to the computer which produces
verbal output sounding almost like human
speeches.

Monitors
A display device is the most common form
of output device. It presents output
visually on computer screen. The output
appears temporarily on the screen and can
easily altered or erased, it is sometimes
referred to as soft copy also. The display
device for a desktop PC is called monitor.
With all-in-one PCs, notebook computers,
hand held PCs and other devices; the term
display screen is used for the display
device. The display devices are also used
in home entertainment systems, mobile
systems, cameras and video games.

Display devices form images by lighting up

the proper configurations of pixels. In
short the display devices are organized in
the form of Pixels, & pixels are arranged in
the form of Matrix,[3] a 2-dimensional
matrix which is organized as rows &
columns.

Types of Display (Monitor) …

There are 2 types of monitors, they are
Monochrome & Colored Monitors.
Monochrome monitors actually display
two colors, one for the foreground and one
for the background. The colors can be
black and white, green and black, or amber
and black. The Colored Monitor is a
display device capable of displaying many
colors. The Color monitors can display
anywhere from 16 to over 1 million
different colors.

Monochrome Display …

A monochrome monitor is a type of CRT

computer display which was very common
in the early days of computing, from the
1960s through the 1980s, before color
monitors became popular. The most
important component in the monitor is the
picture tube. CRT basically means cathode
ray tube.[4] The CRT use cathode-ray-tube
technology to display images, so they are
large, bulky and heavy like conventional or
old televisions, because old televisions
also used the CRT technology only to
display the television films or television
images. To form the image on the screen,
an electronic gun sealed inside a large
glass tube fires electrons at phosphorous
coated screen to light up the appropriate
pixels in the appropriate color to display
images. The phosphors glow only for a
limited period of time after the exposure of
the electrons, the monitor image must be
redrawn/refreshed on a continual basis.
Typical refreshment rates are between 60
and 85 times in a second.

They are still widely used in applications

such as computerized cash register
systems. Green screen was the common
name for a monochrome monitor using a
green "P1" phosphor screen.

Colored Display …

The color monitors are sometimes called

RGB monitors, because they accept three
separate signals (red, green, and blue). In
contrast, a monochrome monitor can
display only two colors one for the
background and one for the foreground.
Color monitors implement the RGB color
model by using three different phosphors
that appear red, green, and blue when
activated. By placing the phosphors
directly next to each other, and activating
them with different intensities, color
monitors can create an unlimited number
of colors. In practice, however, the real
number of colors that any monitor can
display is controlled by the video
adapter.[5]
Monitor displays types include:

CRT display monitors

TFT (Thin-film transistor),
flat panel[6]
LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)
OLED
LED

See also
Input Device
CPU

References
1. "Graphic output device" (PDF).
 2. "Speech Synthesis" (PDF).
3. "Definition of a Matrix" . nptel.ac.in.
Retrieved 2018-09-15.
4. "Understanding of Cathode Ray Tube –
CRT" . ElProCus - Electronic Projects
for Engineering Students. 2013-10-26.
Retrieved 2018-09-15.
5. "Types of Video Adapters |
Techwalla.com" . Techwalla. Retrieved
2018-09-15.
6. "Contents" . nptel.ac.in. Retrieved
2018-09-15.

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