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The term '''video display''' does not have a strict, widely-accepted definition, but it generally refers to [[display]]s which can accept an [[analog]] [[video]] input [[signal]], or whose interface to the rest of the system of which they are a part is such a signal.
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The term '''video display''' does not have a strict, widely-accepted definition, but it generally refers to [[display]]s which can display images (which is now, of course, essentially all of them); and it sometime refers to those which accept an [[analog]] [[video]] input [[signal]], or whose interface to the rest of the system of which they are a part is such a signal. Originally, they all used [[cathode ray tube]]s for their displays.
  
 
The signal may be either a [[raster]] type, or something else (e.g. the direct addressing often`produced by [[vector graphics]] systems).
 
The signal may be either a [[raster]] type, or something else (e.g. the direct addressing often`produced by [[vector graphics]] systems).
  
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Latest revision as of 14:05, 12 March 2021

The term video display does not have a strict, widely-accepted definition, but it generally refers to displays which can display images (which is now, of course, essentially all of them); and it sometime refers to those which accept an analog video input signal, or whose interface to the rest of the system of which they are a part is such a signal. Originally, they all used cathode ray tubes for their displays.

The signal may be either a raster type, or something else (e.g. the direct addressing often`produced by vector graphics systems).