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Relaxing the description?
 
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→Too CRT-based?: Sounds good!
 
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The description seems, to me, overly focused on electron beams: "horizontal lines", "scanning across the screen", etc.  I would consider raster displays also many other technologies like LCD, plasma, ePaper, etc that arrange pixels in a regular grid.  (I might even include honeycomb tiling if there were such things.)
==Too CRT-based?==
 
The description seems, to me, overly focused on electron beams: "horizontal lines", "scanning across the screen", etc.  I would consider raster displays also many other technologies like LCD, plasma, ePaper, etc that arrange pixels in a regular grid.  (I might even include honeycomb tiling if there were such things.) [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]]) 09:13, 16 September 2021 (CEST)
 
: Well, the dictionary does say "''a rectangular pattern of parallel scanning lines followed by the electron beam''". ;-) I can re-cast it to say something like 'a rectangular array of lines of output on a display', and go on to say that it ''originated'' on CRT displays, which operated in this manner? [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 13:18, 18 September 2021 (CEST)
 
:: Thanks, I think that would be an improvement. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]]) 20:20, 18 September 2021 (CEST)

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Too CRT-based?

The description seems, to me, overly focused on electron beams: "horizontal lines", "scanning across the screen", etc. I would consider raster displays also many other technologies like LCD, plasma, ePaper, etc that arrange pixels in a regular grid. (I might even include honeycomb tiling if there were such things.) Larsbrinkhoff (talk) 09:13, 16 September 2021 (CEST)

Well, the dictionary does say "a rectangular pattern of parallel scanning lines followed by the electron beam". ;-) I can re-cast it to say something like 'a rectangular array of lines of output on a display', and go on to say that it originated on CRT displays, which operated in this manner? Jnc (talk) 13:18, 18 September 2021 (CEST)
Thanks, I think that would be an improvement. Larsbrinkhoff (talk) 20:20, 18 September 2021 (CEST)