Originally posted by: astroidea
Originally posted by: ForumMaster
actually, it's the other way around. CRT's fire particles directly at your eyes. LCD's on the other hand, have a backlight and each pixel block light and lets light of a certain color pass through meaning you get a picture from the photons rather then actual particles coming to your eyes.
anyway, modern LCD's can beat a CRT in almost all catagories. there's 120hz LCD TV's now, there's LCD's with insane response time as well as insane contrast ratios.
I think you just heard the term electron beam and got scared by it.
CRT fires light particles(photons) to your eyes in the same way an LCD, or any other source of light fires photons to your light.
The electron gun is only there to heat up the phosphor elements on the glass portion of the CRT screen. It isn't beaming electrons directly to your eyeballs.
There's still no modern LCD that has the deep black levels nor the contrast of a CRT.
Much closer than before? Yes. Match? No.