Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 03:35:16 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: LCD brightness thing
>From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ..... oops.... I deleted your long post instead of clicking on 'reply' Ray. A little of what you wrote sunk in... through a lot that was bouncing off my thick skull. I realized that I really know very little about just how LCD screens work. Millions of transistors control millions of crystals that each display... either one pixel ... or one color for a pixel ... or both. Is there more than one crystal per pixel? Are there 3 crystals of different colors focusing on one pixel on the surface of the screen? Probably not. I forgot much of what I read already. The controller makes the crystals actually turn to let light pass through from what I understand. I guess each crystal has an innate coloration, right? I would still think that if a MUCH brighter light source is shined through the crystals, the color might get washed out. Unless the crystals actually work like prisms that refract white light into bands of color. Is that what's happening? Perhaps it's not like white light going through a colored gel in front of a spotlight, as I initially thought. Then there's the deal of the different elements that make up different layers of the LCD screen. You mentioned something about a 'layer' (my term) that I didn't understand. I also read where there's supposed to be panel's of glass. Was that ages ago before the plastic front surfaces? Or is there glass plates inside somewhere. Hmmm... back to search the web for "notebook LCD construction" Matt _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
