On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 05:58 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Quite frankly, I don't understand why digital LCD
> monitor even have scan rates in the first place. It's
> not a CRT that actually has an electron beam. You
> would thing that it would have a digital interface
> where the computer told the monitor what to draw and
> the monitor deals with it.

That's it. Information is simply the content of the video RAM, given
serially at a certain rate (as the DVI interface is a serial interface
with a fixed rate, you can't redraw the display at 60fps above a certain
pixel quantity).

        Xav


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