Although boasting a 50 year history plasma screen displays effectively died in late 2013 and 2014 when Panasonic, LG, and Samsung all announced that their respective companies would no longer be manufacturing Plasma displays, whether tv or PC display.

The improvements in the technology of LCD, OLED, and QLED displays coupled with lower production costs more than likely contributed to the downfall of plasma displays also.

Because these displays are so hard to get your hands on we haven’t been able to do an extensive review and comparison. we only have a stub article which you can find here: Article about Plasma Displays

We know the article is incomplete so we would ask for your help in the form of feedback. Any knowledge you are willing to impart would help us tremendously. Feedback can be submitted via the form at the bottom of this or any TekEons page.

LCD, short for Liquid Crystal Display, screens can be found in many various forms. In everything from watch face displays to a huge flatscreen TV. 

While it is true that you can use a flatscreen LCD TV as a computer monitor, in this article we are looking solely at the LCD monitor technology. 

The monitors, unlike their TV counterparts usually do not have built in speakers or that ability to be connected to a TV antennae or other type of TV reception box. In the early 2000’s LCD flatscreen monitors outsold the old CRT monitors and has since been the default style of monitor going forward due to a number of reasons. 

1. Manufacturing costs have lowered substantially
2. No use of the hazardous heavy metal Mercury such as was used in CRT’s.
3. Aspect Ratios began to change from 4:3 to 16:9 which allowed increased performance
4. Lighter in weight and uses less power overall. 

This is only the tip of the iceberg about the tech behind LCD displays. We have a work in progress Article about LCD Displays that could certainly use some community feedback. Your feedback helps us create encompassing, detailed and helpful articles. You can use the from at the bottom of the page to submit any feedback.

Flat screen PC displays encompass many of the other categories we discuss on this page with the exception of CRT monitors.

Flat screen displays have been the standard since the early 2000’s when sales of flat screen LCD displays overtook the old CRT monitors. In our discussion of LCD screens, we mentioned some of the pros of the LCD screen such as lower manufacturing costs and not use of mercury and these would apply to flatscreen displays also. One of the cons to all flatscreen displays (TV’s included) is distortion at the edges. This isn’t an inherent flaw in the technology but has to do more with how the human eye sees the world, in an outward cone shape that arcs at the end of the cone.

We’ve written a small Article about flat screen displays however it could use some help from the community.

Curved screens are what flat screens were to the old CRT monitors, the replacement. Curved screens are slowly taking over a larger market share due to their benefits.

1. Less or no distortion at the edges
2. More comfortable for the eye due to the shape and design of the screen
3. Larger field of view
4. Full-on entertainment immersion.

There are some drawbacks to a curved screen display such as cost, glare, and the difficulty of mounting it on the wall.

Our TekResearchers are still gathering data on this type of PC display. However, we have a small stub article that needs feedback from the community and can be found here: Article about curved screen displays 

LED displays can be difficult to navigate because they include LCD, OLED, and QLED. However, for this section, we are only looking at what the industry considers to be an LED display. This would be an LCD monitor that uses LED’s as the light source instead of fluorescent tubes.

LED displays come in 3 different types of display. TN (twisted nematic), VA (vertical alignment), and IPS (in-plain switching). our TekResearchers are doing a deep dive into these different types of LED monitors so that we can expound upon our Article about LED PC displays.

If you have knowledge about these types of monitors and would like to submit feedback you can use the form at the bottom of the page.

OLED displays use an organic compound that when exposed to an electric current will produce light which is referred to as electroluminescence. Therefore OLED monitors don’t require an LED backlight source.

We are still extensively researching OLED monitors (and TV’s for that matter) so that we can provide the best possible article on this tech. We have a small article started about OLED displays but to be honest it could use some feedback from the community. you can find the article here: Article discussing OLED displays

If you are interested in laptops with OLED screens we discuss it here: Laptops with OLED screens.

If you would like to submit feedback on either of these types of technology please feel free to fill out the form at the bottom of this or any TekEons page.

QLED displays use a quantum dot enhancement film (known as the QDEF) layer inside the TV to filter the LED backlighting of LCD displays to produce monochromatic reds, blues, and greens.

Acronyms aside, this translates into a stunning display features which allow the user to see almost 100% of the color gamut.

When it comes to QLED TVs Samsung formed an alliance with TCL and Hisense to produce QLED TVs. The PC display market has no such thing and is dominated by Samsung. LG and ASUS do have a few QLED displays on the market but the primary source for QLED pc Displays will be Samsung. This is not necessarily a bad thing as Samsung has spent billions of dollars on research and production of QLED technology. It’s a shame they couldn’t have diverted a little of that budget to make a refrigerator with an ice maker that doesn’t freeze up and break, but we digress.

Our TekReseasrchers are still delving into the awesome technology that is QLED. We have started a small Article about QLED PC displays that is still incomplete. If you have knowledge about or have experience using a QLED PC display and would like to share it will us please feel free to use the form at the bottom of the page.

While CRT monitors can still be found on popular resale websites the PC display industry has moved away from using this type of monitor because of its extensive use of Mercury. We have made a stub Article about CRT Monitors. We admit that it needs some work as CRT monitors are not something that we can just order on Amazon and review or compare.