About the only thing they won't save your company, at least in the short term, is money. As a result, LCDs initially found homes on notebook computers, in which portability was critical and buyers weren't so price-sensitive. But in the past year, that situation has changed. Flat-panel technology has improved, providing better image quality.
Colors jump off the screen and text is sharp even in the smallest font sizes.
Several of the new monitors are bypassing traditional analog display technology, as well. That eliminates performance bottlenecks and provides significantly better picture quality. But while the Asia financial crisis initially prompted LCD makers to cut prices in order to bring in much-needed cash, it also caused many of them to stop construction of LCD manufacturing facilities. As a result, the latest crop of digital flat-panel displays is actually more expensive than the last. Like CRTs, FED panels use illuminated phosphors to produce images, but they don't require the bulky electron gun found in CRTs.