A virtual shootout of sorts about CRT, LCD and Plasma displays. To me, I found this article at Extreme Tech to be a review of sorts, but that is just me. At any rate, the ’shootout’ also takes a look at some newcomers to the technology world as well.

Rather than just looking at the technology from a distant point of view, the article actually dives right in with real life examples so that we can really get a feel for what they are getting at.

We are in a renaissance of display technologies. Ten years ago the CRT (cathode ray tube) was the single prevailing technology. Today CRT, LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), Plasma, DLP (Digital Light Processing using Texas Instrument’s Digital Micromirror Device DMD), and LCoS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) are mature and mainstream, while many other technologies are trying to emerge from the development lab and grab a significant market share. All of these choices raise the questions: How does one technology differ from another and which one is best for your needs?

To provide some substantive answers, DisplayMate Technologies performed an in-depth comparison between these technologies to analyze their relative strengths and weaknesses. The DisplayMate products generate proprietary test patterns for setting up, tuning up, testing, and evaluating displays and projectors. They’re used widely throughout the computer and video industries worldwide, including ExtremeTech and PC Magazine, and have been part of the InfoComm Projection ShootOut event and software since 1997, so they are accepted by most manufacturers as reference standards. Direct-view and rear-projection units were included in our comparison, but front projectors were excluded because they require different measurement and evaluation criteria.