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LCD breakdown

LCD breakdown

- [Instructor] So this my friends, what I have in front of me is an actual LCD monitor. I just took off the case because in this episode I want to talk about some of the parts that are really, really important to us techs on the inside of LCD monitors. So let me go ahead and let's start with probably the most important part there is right here, and this is big guy right here. This is the actual LCD screen itself. Now if we take a look, let me zoom in on this. There are millions of tiny little wires coming into this LCD screen with a few controller functions right here. So this incredibly fragile piece contains gazillions over a million of these little picture elements in here. Now, because there's no power, theoretically you can't see through an LCD when there's no power. However, no LCD is perfect. So you can probably see me a little bit, I can see the camera a little bit. All right, so this is the working part of any monitor. So let me just set this off to the side for a moment…

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